(Croatia )
The performance “O” by Croatian choreographer Sonja Pregrad is a captivating exploration of dance beyond the boundaries of the human. Inspired by nature and its cycles, Pregrad creates a choreography that unfolds as a collective body, weaving together organic and inorganic geometries into a unified whole.
Sonja Pregrad shares: “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 “O”, Pregrad ventures into the future of contemporary choreography, drawing inspiration from the geometry of plants and the dynamics between the organic and inorganic. The performance promises to be not only visually striking but also philosophically provocative.
Sonja Pregrad is a Croatian choreographer, performer, teacher and performance curator, who was for a while based in Berlin, after doing an MA in Solo Dance Authorship at UdK Berlin. Now based in Zagreb, she makes solo and group work that was awarded multiple times, lately around the notions of drag, plants and poetry. She has been working with Meg Stuart, Isabelle Schad, Boris Charmatz, Lea Martini and Noha Ramadan, Willy Prager and many others. She is a founder and curator of the festival Improspekcije (since 2007) and Antisezona collective, running a program of performance art at Contemporary Art Museum in Zagreb. She has been continuously teaching at the New Media department of Fine Art Academy and Dance department of Dramatic Art Academy in Zagreb and at ROAR Berlin independent program.
The international program of Antistatic Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance is organized by the “Brain Store Project” Foundation and the “Nomad Dance” Association, with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, Sofia Municipality – Calendar of Cultural Events, Goethe-Institut Bulgarien, the research project DanceMap funded by “Horizon Europe” Programme of the European Union, and in partnership with RCCI “Toplocentrala”, and “Academia” Gallery of the National Academy of Art.
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