Chew
Croatian Choreographic Platform | OOUR (Croatia) | author: Selma Banich
„Chew“ by one of Croatia’s most important contemporary dance artists – Selma Banich, is an autoreflective work which researches the phenomena of the covered, the particulars of body details hidden under layers of a pin-up appearance. Instead of the author, this work will be performed by Goran Sergej Pristaš only on the occassion of the 25th Dance Week Festival.
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by Selma Banich
music: Dolly Parton, The Beatles
light: Mario Vnučec
design: offstudio
In co-production with Teatar &TD – CIIU, Kulturzentrum Minoriten Graz and Experimental free scene platform.
Supported by The City Office for Culture Zagreb and The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia.
about the performance
The close-ups of the fake genitalia renders them abstract. There’s a play between what’s recognizable and what’s unrecognizable. What do you think the desire for the “realistic” model is about?
Cindy Sherman interviewed by Therese Lichtenstein
about the author
Selma Banich was educated as a classical ballet dancer in Zagreb and Munich. Since 2001, she continued to develop her artistic practice thru workshoping with various dance artists in Croatia and abroad. She is a co-founder and program coordinator of the Experimental free scene, platform for education and research in performing arts. She works with co-authorship initiative OOUR, Zagreb based collaborative performance research group, and collaborates with transitive-fiction theatre Trafik, DB Indoš and House of Extreme Music Theatre, Sodaberg company and k.o. /combined operations. In her free time she works for La bella nippola records and as band staff for Bebè na Volè.
about the company
The co-authorship initiative OOUR was established by a group of authors from different fields of art who are willing to research the limitations of their own authorial dispositions and oppositional friction within the given performative concepts. So far the co-authorship initiative OOUR created and performed: Limb (2003), blackbox-the first box (2004), orangecut (2004), to be confirmed (2005), H (2006), Creation of Eve (2006), Salon (2007), Chew (2007) & Whitebox (2008). The group performed its productions at the various theatre events and dance festivals in Croatia and abroad. OOUR is the resident company at the EkS-scene work platform, Zagreb. OOUR productions are copylefted.
