Sonja Pregrad: O (2024)
Monday, 25 November at 8:00 p.m.
dance performance
The Old Power Station
Duration: 70 min.
A choreography of expanding materiality, O is a new work by Sonja Pregrad, in which the choreographer’s dance work reaches beyond the purely human. She outlines her intentions in the following manner: »Just as in spring the identical cycle of growth manifests itself diversely through soil, moss, grasses, flowering plants, trees, fulfilling different forms and vectors, but also pointing to a common driving force, I am interested in the possibility of a composite choreography of the collective body the folklore of an/organic geometry (as collective collection choreography of gestures). I want to open the question of choreography conceptually and methodologically towards the ruins of the anthropocentric architecture of viewing immanent to theatre as a medium.«
With her performance O, the artist subtly enters one of the most interesting fields of the contemporary choreographic future. She draws from a choreographic interest in the geometry of plants, as well as the affects and tensions in the (in)organic. Simultaneously, such treatment of the subject is closely related to certain works from past editions of CoFestival, in which the authors explore choreographic uses and treatments of organic »vibrant matters.«
Idea and choreography: Sonja Pregrad
In collaboration with:
Dance: Ivana Bojanić, Viktoria Bubalo, Lana Hosni, Anna Javoran, Nika Pećarina, Eva Priečková
Music and space concept: Nika Pećarina
Costume design: Bruna Jakupović
Scenography: Liberta Mišan
Lighting design: Ema Kani
Sound manager: Martina Gucić
Visuals: Lana Lephamer
Production assistant: Tea Kantoci
Technical director: Tomislav Maglečić
Photos: Nina Đurđević
Friend of the performance: Silvia Marchig
Production: OBJECT OF DANCE
As part of Antisezona 23 in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
Organised by: Kino Šiška and NDA Slovenia in collaboration with Bunker