16.10., 20:30pm @ &TD theatre semicircular hall Theatre play The Maids is inspired by Jean Genet’s play of the same title. The essence of The Maids is in playing the roles and going beyond imposed roles, in having the courage to be someone else. Saša deals with what is not represented in the play: the rebellion which could result with emancipation of the maids and complete abandonment of servantery/maiding. Bodies represented in the play evoke all kinds of contemporary subordination: servants of the system, its keepers, whose identities become useless during the play. Genet’s maids may well be left trapped by reproducing the class forms they fight against, but this play is exploring the kinds of behavior that can undermine capitalism – especially with the strategy of inefficient bodies.                     Director: Saša Božić Dramaturge: Nina Gojić Scenographer and costume designer: Zdravka Ivandija Kirigin Assistant costume designer: Mia Petranović Music: Damir Šimunović Performance: Milica Manojlović, Nataša Kopeč, Andrej Kopčok Assistant director: Dado Ćosić Poster designer: Tina Ivezić Postproduction within apap – Performing Europe 2020 supported by European Union, Creative Europe                   Instead of trying to send political and/or PR messages from the scene, through series of different practices we should try to create and develop some space where alternate reality is possible, alternate to the one we see in our media, and political and TV soaps consumed society. We should represent different, other bodies, un-strained, un-explosive, nonviolent bodies. I think that is the way theatre can truly affect the reality more than just merely looking at it like a passer-by. Saša...

19:30pm premiere i 21:30pm performance / Roberta Milevoj, Zrinka Užbinec, Matija Ferlin & Bojan Gagić (HR): U očima @ French Pavillion Suggesting that mutually exposed bodies carry within themselves layers of dance material conditioned by history and the traces of all past performances and choreographic solutions, the performers develop dance material using the well-known dance, the dance that will change after the process is complete, and intertwine by individual habitus’ from both performers. In this bared dance material they find mutual aliment, choreographic inspiration and theatrical experience of togetherness (or solitude). In collaboration with artists Matija Ferlin and Bojan Gagić, Roberta and Zrinka create dance performance which relies on reshaping the meeting point and establishing a dance dialogue. Choreography: Roberta Milevoj, Zrinka Užbinec, Matija Ferlin Sound and light designer: Bojan Gagić Performance: Roberta Milevoj, Zrinka Užbinec Production: University of Zagreb, Student Centre, Culture of Change, Theatre &TD within apap – Performing Europe supported by European Union, Culture 2007-2013. Realization of the residency and the performances ( october 2016.) within project SC in residency, supported by Ministry of Culture RH                 BIOGRAPHY Roberta Milevoj is a professional dancer, choreographer and pedagogue. She gained dance experience through many workshops, residential programs at home and abroad and developed her authorial and performing signature. She collaborated with many choreographers, directors and dance ensembles. She is an award-winning performer. Zrinka Užbinec is a dance artist with interest in choreography. Since 2006 she works with BadCo. and collaborates with many dance groups and artists. Outside of BadCo., she is coauthor of eight dance pieces. She teaches and leads workshops on contemporary dance. This year she enrolled in choreography master program at Justus – Liebig – Universität (DE).                   Desirable rage exists only in theatre and can bring change and liberation. But that is not life. That...

15. 10., 21:30pm @ MM centre The theatre piece of the director Rabih Mroué is an impressive combination of the personal and political: For Riding on a Cloud he invites his brother Yasser to play the role of a character that resembles him personally. A person, who was injured in the Lebanese civil war and lost his ability to use words. Yasser began to shoot videos, which fuse with his recounted memories on stage to form a subjective picture of the political developments in Lebanon. Riding on a Cloud also describes the fragile construction of biography, which emerges between political reality, memories, facts and fiction. For Mroué this is always the starting point for artistic self-reflection, which he then transposes for the theatre and exhibitions. Written and directed by Rabih Mroué assistant director: Sarmad Louis i Yasser Mroué Performance: Yasser Mroué  Supported by Fonds Podiumkunsten, Prins Claus Fonds, Hivos& Stichting DOEN- (The Netherlands) and Goethe institute in Croatia ( www.goethe.de/zagreb).                   BIOGRAPHY Rabih Mroué is based in Berlin. As an artist, actor and director, he merges visual art, performance and theatre in his work. With his theatre works he draws attention to the broader political and economic context; blending reality and fiction, he uses found documents, video footage, photographs and objects to compromise the authority of archival...

15. and 16.10., 16 to 21pm @ &TD atrium  Lotte van den Berg & Daan ‘t Sas (NL): #BuildingConversationZAGREB2016 (* meal included) Stretch your imagination. Switch perspective. Join in. Speak out. Building Conversation is a long-term project which started already in 2013. Inspired on conversation techniques from all over the world, we develop new ways of talking. The conversations at Pobješnjeli Ganz novi festival: Parliament of Things (maximum 20 participants) We are accustomed to humans speaking not only for themselves but also on behalf of other entities – the universe, the rain forest, the animals, and the city. The Parliament of Things is a Bruno Latour’s theory that makes a case for the rights of objects. In modern thought, people refuse to recognize the rights, autonomy and agency of objects and other entities, according to Latour. He argues for a human viewpoint in which the values (not the value) of objects and other entities play an active role. When developing this form of conversation, we want to take a distance from anthropocentric thinking in which humans place themselves at the centre of existence, and consider what the relation is between us and things. Can we speak on behalf of things? Are we in them? Are we opposite to them? Another source of inspiration for Parliament of Things is the Council of All Beings, a worldwide practice that investigates our relation to nonhuman entities – namely, nature. Among other things, this “Council” refers to a ritual of the Aboriginals, who consider themselves connected with plants, clouds, and a mountain as if they were their ancestors. They use masks to speak on behalf of these entities. We want to use masks in a similar way in this conversation/performance and investigate what it means for us Westerners to...

14. 10., 20pm premiere  i 15. 10., 20pm @ French Pavillion (45′) In Crisp & Wiget, Australian choreographer/dancer Rosalind Crisp and Berlin-based Swiss composer/musician Bo Wiget invite the audience into an intimate communion of two fundamental forms of expression – dance and music. Drawing on the commonalities and dissonances in their practices, they delve into and slide between playing their entire instrument (cello & body) and unraveling it into separate and minute pieces. The spaces between them realign as their shared and visceral responses to our contemporary world saturate their playing. Dance: Rosalind Crisp Cello: Bo Wiget Lighting design: Ben Cobham // bluebottle Assistant lighting designer: Alex Nguyen // bluebottle Artistic advise: Andrew Morrish Management: Auspicious Arts Projects Crisp & Wiget is part of Platform East, a program of Australian work produced in Europe by Rosalind Crisp/Omeo Dance. Platform East has been assisted by the Australian government through the Ministry for the Arts’ Catalyst—Australian Arts and Culture Fund. Studio support from Tanzfabrik Berlin and Student centre in Zagreb. Realization of the residency and the performances within project SC in residence, supported by Ministry of Culture RH, Goethe institute in Croatia (www.goethe.de/zagreb) and The Swiss Arts Council- Prohelvetia (https://prohelvetia.ch/). Crisp & Wiget by A. Morrish       BIOGRAPHY Rosalind Crisp is one of Australia’s foremost established dance artists. From 2004 to 2012 she was based in Paris as the choreographic associate of the Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson. France has recently awarded her the prestigious Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres. Rosalind is also an honorary fellow of the University of Melbourne-VCA and holds a Masters by research from the University of Western Sydney. Over 30 years she has created a substantial body of original dance work. She has responded to numerous commissions from Australian and European companies and institutions, and fostered cultural...

13.10., 21pm @ &TD big hall (45′) Let me introduce you Blob, the ultimate undefined entity that nobody can name. A thing that is everything and nothing, that takes all shapes and yet has no form. Blob is just there, changing, indifferent to the outside. Indifference as a matter, a matter of trust, letting you become what you want, confronting you with your deepest dreams, your darkest fears, your highest desires. Blob faces an enigma, the mystery of how the meeting of two can create a third, a third thing, a third dimension, something, something that was not there before, and not even meant to be; something that arises from the encounter itself. And while arising, it transforms both: you and Blob… This state of constant transformation proposes a watchful gaze; a gaze that pays attention through the inability to name what it looks at. Nobody knows what Blob is…                 A piece by: María Jerez Co-produced by La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Buda Kunstencentrum (Kortrijk), University of Zagreb – Student Centre Zagreb – Culture of Change, &TD Theatre within apap – Performing Europe project Supported by TanzFabrik (Berlin) and the European Union “Culture 2007-2013” Postproduction within apap – Performing Europe 2020 supported by European Union, Creative Europe                   BIOGRAPHY María Jerez (1978, Madrid) graduated art history and audiovisual communication at University of Madrid. Her work travels in between cinema, choreography, architecture and visual arts. She is interested in the unspeakable. She is a part of apap – Performing Europe 2020.                 Rage is always against something; reactive and it reinforces the idea of identity and identification… I am much more interested in art that works...

14.10., 21pm, 21:30 and 22pm presentation @ &TD theatre semicircular hall (30′) After 3 weeks of intensive workshop María Jerez, Eva Badanjak, Matea Bilosnić, Sara Ercegović, Ivan Penović and Martina Zelenika aka MOON open to curious visitors their cabin of delicious wonders. A mysterious space inhabited by heterogeneous objects. An untidy collection of things that propose a cluttered gaze. This promiscuous space where this miscellanea of curiosities coexist, insist in the indifference as its modus operandi. The transition between disarranged actions, eclectic objects, with no apparent hierarchies, creates enigmatic meanings. This project invites the work of different artists to coexist in order to elaborate that promiscuous space while putting their projects together: next to each other, into each other, inside themselves, within other things, around conversations, away from their references, above objects that are foreign to them, under a board game, peeking behind another project, in the dark… Looking for the coexistence of the most insane materials in one single space. A space that will transform as long as conversations, actions, records, references, bodies, voices, objects, events will mingle while happening. Concept and director: María Jerez Co-authors and performance: Eva Badanjek, Matea Bilosnić, Nina Kurtela, Ivan Penović, Martina Zelenika aka MOON & Sara Ercegović Special guest: Cuqui Jerez Light designer: Marino Frankola Props: Tanja Cvetko Graphic design: S-TISAK Stage manager: Jelena Božić Producers: Andrea Remetin i Silvija Stipanov Production: de facto Coproduction: Student Centre, University of Zagreb – Culture of Change – Ganz new festival within apap – Performing Europe 2020 supported by supported by European Union, Creative Europe. Supported by Ministry of Culture RH and City Office for Education, Culture and sport.                   BIOGRAPHY María Jerez (1978, Madrid) graduated art history and audiovisual communication at University of Madrid. Her work travels in between cinema, choreography, architecture and visual arts. She is interested in the...

13. i 14. 10., 17:00, 18:30 i 20:00 @ Park Zrinjevac ( in case it rains see you in Oktogon -well known Zagreb passage) (35′) First there is the performance, which everyone listens to lying down, beginning with a live capture of the surrounding sounds and the general atmosphere created by the event, the landscape and the time of day or night. Then comes the introduction of sounds and voices inspired by the identity of the place, forming an instant sound composition, and finally, listening to dream stories, which we have collected, reworked, edited and marked with a musical imprint to accompany the listeners on their dreamlike journey. Every session, like every dream, is different. In parallel to these public sessions, we are compiling a Library of Dream Stories. To enhance each audio-speaking siesta, we record the dreams told to us by listeners who are willing to play the game. We edit and rework these dreams and incorporate them in the upcoming siestas.   Project: Kristoff K. Roll Production and administration: Bérangère Mabé Cie Kristoff K.Roll receives financial support from the La Région Occitanie – France.  In collaboration with French institut in Croatia, TransARTE project and TEATROSKOP programe (www.institutfrancais.com).               BIOGRAPHY KRISTOFF K.ROLL is a sound art duo, born in Paris in 1990. Duo are Carole Rieussec and Jean-Kristoff Camps. The two musicians produce an amazing “multiple-entry sound labyrinth”. Together he/she shifts from the acousmatic to electroacoustic improvisation to sound theatre via radio art, installation, text-composition, and performance. Word, space and object are the main axes of their writing. In the 90s, the duo was among the actors involved in the exploding scene of electroacoustic studio composition on stage. The studio and its processes became instruments in the game of live improvisation, whereas they had...