{"id":4869,"date":"2025-10-12T15:22:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cofestival.si\/2025\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2025-11-04T19:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:29:03","slug":"sonja-pregrad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cofestival.si\/2025\/en\/sonja-pregrad\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonja Pregrad: Object of Dance (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"Sunday, 23 November at 8:00 p.m.
\ndance performance
\n\u0160panski borci, Main Hall
\nDuration: 45 min.<\/p>\n

Croatian dancer and choreographer Sonja Pregrad is well-known in the Ljubljana contemporary dance scene, presenting many of her works here and collaborating with several local artists. In 2021, she was featured at the Symposium of \u201cSmall Arts\u201d (Emanat) at the DUM project space in Ljubljana, where she presented the remarkable work How Many Cubic Centimetres Can My Body Take Up. In this performance, she boldly objectified the female body using drag as a tool for emancipation. What happens to femininity when it is subjected to drag processes? The history of the LGBTIAQ+ community is a tactical history of dealing with visibility and invisibility, with revealing and concealing. This makes the distinctions between behaviour and performance a political question of normativity and singularity.<\/p>\n

Sonja Pregrad uses her contemporary choreographic works to transform such tactics into problems of fundamental theatricality and political socialisation. She asks: \u201cWhat could a drag persona called \u2018Object of Dance\u2019 talk to us about? In this solo, I am trying to stretch the concept of drag from the body (identity) towards movement, speech, and dance as a (theatre) performance. I am appropriating, estranging and modifying the way I perform \u2013 gender, body, presence, materiality, and movement \u2013 by splitting the roles of an author, spectator and performer into fragments smaller than a singularity.\u201d How can so-called abnormalities be utilised to problematise normativity itself? Pregrad uses drag as a procedural tool to make visible the production of gender, body, presence, materiality (of the body), and movement, not only choreographically, but also sociologically and politically. This is crucial, because within the normative forms of life choreographed by the inertia of social dominances the processes of embodiment are often subjected to the ideologies of dominant, unproblematized, and therefore invisible \u201cnaturalnesses\u201d and \u201cnormalcies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Author and performer: Sonja Pregrad
\nDramaturgical advice and sound processing: Nika Pe\u0107arina
\nOuter eye and text writing support: Ana Fazeka\u0161
\nThe work uses parts of Ana Fazeka\u0161\u2019s text \u201cAnxieties: Reflection in Three Extremities,\u201d which was published on antisezona.space as a review of the performances of the block Antisezone: Antirepertoar (February 14-15, 2022).
\nCostume: Sonja Pregrad and Tea Kantoci
\nLight: Tomislav Magle\u010di\u0107
\nProduction: OBJECT OF DANCE
\nCo-production with the Museum of Contemporary Art, as part of the ANTISEZONA 22 programme<\/p>\n

Organised by: Kino \u0160i\u0161ka and NDA Slovenia in collaboration with En-Knap<\/p>\n

Entry: 8\/10 EUR<\/a><\/p>\n

Supported by:
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Cover photo: Nina \u0110ur\u0111evi\u0107","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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