Performers are scattered throughout the scene, surrounded by pieces of moss, miniature sand towers, and an orange placed among them.

Agenda

Simone Aughterlony & Saša Božić

Emerging from the need to remix, rearrange and redistribute images, bodies and meanings, Agenda is inspired by the art of collage. A medium born in times of ​political crisis, violence and shattered certainties, it returns here as a contemporary language for performance art. The performance furthers long-term research into the concept of “the stranger,” and experiences of otherness, difference and strangeness, this time through the physical encounter of fragments, gestures and affects. Agenda creates a space where belonging does not arise from unity or origin, but from open composition processes, friction and the constant reevaluation of relationships.

Each performer enters Agenda with their own “agenda”, i.e., their personal interests, impulses, and performative language, which will develop and gradually transform over the course of the performance. They do not create representations of identities or types. Instead, they function as trajectories of desire, repeating, colliding and intertwining. The common element becomes a shared groove, a dance space that connects individuals without disturbing their differences. Thus, Agenda creates a temporary community of many that become one, though never definitively — always as an open, living, unfinished process of being together.

Credits

Concept and direction
Simone Aughterlony, Saša Božić
Performance
Katarina Barešić, Boris Barukčić, Ivana Bojanić, Dora Brkarić, Viktoria Bubalo, Margareta Firinger, Nic Lloyd, Šimun Stankov, Melissa Valette, Thomas Vantuycom
Costumes
Marita Čopo
Scenography
Igor Ruf
Lights
Joseph Wegmann
Music
Nikola Krgović
Production
Ida Klemenčić
Public relations
Ivana Sansević
Produced by
de facto, Zagreb Dance Center, Dance Week Festival, Zagreb
Supported by
Ministry of Culture and Media of Republic of Croatia, Zagreb City Office for Culture, International Relations and Civil Society, Zagreb Tourist Board, Embassy of Switzerland in Croatia, Goethe Institut Zagreb

Images

  • Several dancers perform a synchronized movement in a dimly lit room, lifting one arm into the air and shifting their hips in unison.
    © Neven Petrović
  • A performer stands against the back wall, holding a laptop screen in front of their face that reads “YEAH” in all caps.
    © Neven Petrović
  • Three performers carry out different actions across the stage. The performer in the foreground faces the audience, her face concealed by a balaclava.
    © Neven Petrović