Dance Week Festival

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choreography, performance: Sanja Tropp Frühwald

choreography assitence: Ivan Mijačević

performance assitence: Till Frühwald

music: Enio Morricone

sound design: Ivan Mijačević

light design: Till Frühwald, Wolfgang Weissgerber

costume: Alenka Mikulan

co-production: VRUM, SEAD i SZENE Salzburg

text inspiration and help: Meg Stuart

guest star appearance: Mario Kovač
About the performance

Starting position of this choreographic research is performative analysis of structures that influence the way in which we perceive the performer, her codes and movements. Product is a stage material for a solo performer on remains of everyday heroism. Basis of the research is counterpoint between the outside shell (mask) and inner world of the subject, so-called macro and micro cosmos opposition, as well as frictions which appear m touching points of those two oppositions. Physicality of the performer is affected by different approach to timing, props, use of voice and sounds, and different emotional states.

Research of the film directing structures and search for specific time-space relations between the movie cuts and choreographic methods represents a special layer of interest. Results ofthis research, as well as Enio Morricone’s film music, are applied on contemporeality, personal sources and given theme.

Willngness to live on the edge requires eagerness to cultivate an erotic acuity – every day a new physicality. If only the struggle would begin again… If only she could face the danger now… If only she could risk her life and fight forever… That would be an eternal relief…

About the choreographer

Sanja Tropp Frühwald, choreographer, author and dancer, graduated from the Faculty of Political Science in Croatia in 2001. and from the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) in 2007.

Throughout her carrier she has collaborated with numerous Croatian and foreign choreographers and directors (Tanja Zgonc, Charles Linehan, BadCo, Matej Kejžar, Ted Stoffer, Matsune&Subal, Eileen Standley, Ori Flomin,…), while she herself is the author of various dance projects (Morning; Birds, birds, birds; Flutter; Moving south; Pyrtaneion; Almost;…), multimedia projects (I think I see myself on CCTV; Trashendo; Stand in motion,…) and photo installations (Bloody wedding; Strawberry fields forever,…) presented in Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Portugal and Argentina.

She has received many prizes for her work, including the Best Young Croatian Choreographer at 8th Platform for Emerging Choreographers in 2007.

She is the founder/member of several nongovernmental organizations in the field of the contemporary dance, theatre and alternative culture (Eks scena, Autonomous Cultural Factory, Tanzbüro), and is also working as a DJ and singing in a performative-music group ‘Little Bunny Suicides’.