performance
Friday, 3 October 2025, 7 pm
HKD na Sušaku (Strossmayerova 1, Rijeka)
ZOOM + IGRALKE FESTIVAL
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Sonny
Nataša Živković
– dance theatre performance, 40 min
* language: Croatian
Photo: Nada Žgank
A woman is a sack made to endure. – the Kanun, the Code of Lekë Dukagjini from the Middle Ages, north Albania and Kosovo.
#Unwanted. That’s a common girl name in our Montenegro. – a Women’s Rights Centre poster of a campaign against selective abortion practice, Montenegro, 2017
Montenegro’s last “virgina” has died. Her last wish was for her family-grave epitaph to describe her as her father’s only surviving son. – Blic, 2 August 2016
Sonny! – says a close relative when I visit her in Montenegro.
Sonny is an attempt at an anthropological research of a specific phenomenon in a performative form. It is an amazed fascination with images and stories of sworn virgins or “virginas” from the remote parts of Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo and Metohija. It is a hole in the system which maintains that same system. It is drag in relation to the question of surviving in a man’s world asking us in what world we live.
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Sonny
Author and Performer: Nataša Živković
Also performing: Daniel Petković, Loup Abramovici
Space design and scenography: Lenka Đorojević
Lighting design and technical direction: Špela Škulj
Photography: Nada Žgank
Artistic advisory: Teja Reba
Executive producer: Eva Prodan
Production: City of Women
Co-production: Bunker – Old Power Station
Special thanks to: Maska and Mladinsko Theatre
Performance was made in frame of Performing gender – Dance makes differences
The project was supported by Creative Europe, the Ministry of Culture and the City of Ljubljana
Rijeka, 28 September – 4 October, 2025
Organized by: Drugo more & Kolektiv Igralke
Partners: Hrvatski kulturni dom na Sušaku, KUC Kalvarija
Supported by: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Rijeka – Administrative department of education and schooling, culture, sports and youth
Drugo more is a beneficiary of the funding from the Kultura Nova Foundation.
Drugo more is a beneficiary of institutional support from the National Foundation for Civil Society Development for the stabilization and/or development of the association.
Kolektiv Igralke is a beneficiary of the funding from the Kultura Nova Foundation.
Festival concept: Davor Mišković (Drugo more), Sendi Sotlar, Vanda Velagić (Kolektiv Igralke)
Production: Barbara Babačić, Ivana Katić, Dubravko Matanić (Drugo more), Vanda Velagić (Kolektiv Igralke)
Technical support: Cyclorama d.o.o.
Design: Ana Tomić & Marino Krstačić-Furić
Photography: Tanja Kanazir
Media partner: Kulturpunkt.hr
Info: info@drugo-more.hr