Tuesday  03.09.
20:00 / HKD na Sušaku, Strossmayerova 1
This is not a quintet / premiere
Prostor+ (HR) & Danspoolen (SE)

Oscillating between choreographic and theatre modality, the performance This is not a quintet is an incessant defocusing of clear distinctions between fiction and documentary protocols, carried out as an experiment of debasing the representation and hierarchy organization of classical dramatic structure. Through self-referential mapping, documenting and imagining the relationship with the audience, the fourth wall will break down in the first few minutes of the performace, which will consequently activate the intersubjective space of the scene, where the audience is confronted not only with the insecure status and intentionally confusing genre of the performance, but also with looks of other spectators. In the intertension of two vistas, the performance circles around affirmation and, very frequently, comical negation of the obvious state of affairs. This helps establishing a tautological situation, which is then commented, radicalised with corporeal gesture or is again ironically disputed by escaping to fantasy. (…) What is left and what represents a kind of anti-climax is a rebellious act of an individual, who defies impersonalization through trained corporeality and performs his/her protest by insisting on becoming present outside the spectacle.

Prostor Plus is an association for performing arts from Rijeka that provides dance and physical theatre artists with training and performance opportunities. Since there are no higher education institutions for contemporary dance and physical theater in Croatia, Prostor Plus offers site-specific performances, lectures and film screenings to local audiences. Over the past last eleven years, this association has literally seeded the performing arts scene with artists, programs and productions displayed at some of the most important festivals in Croatia.

Danspoolen is the European Regional Development Fund project within the Cultural and Creative Industries organized by Dans i Nord, a regional resource- and development centre for dance in the region of Norrbotten, Sweden. The project aims at creating a working environment where professional dance- and movement-based artists can support themselves in pursuing their careers, consequently strengthening the region’s attractiveness among visitors and tourists, young dance and movement-based artists and other people interested in art and culture.