Sreten Asanović, Nomina, Plima, Ulcinj, 2011
By: Ivana Ančić
English version will be available soon.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE ART OF (MIS)UNDERSTANDING
The Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful Catastrophe , ZPC, Zagreb
By: Ivana Anić
Five performers, five stories. Five performers, one story? The Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful Catastrophe is a piece by dance artists Selma Banich, Deana Gobac and Roberta Milevoj, dance artist and critic Iva Nerina Sibila and theatrologist and critic Nataša Govedić in which they deal with their own stories, as well as other peoples’ and universal ones. The play has an experimental character but it is long and exceptionally fragmented and even leaves the first impression of being improvised. The text, the gesture, the dance, the symbolic action and the metatheatrical actions are constantly fighting for their position in the game, so that, at the end of the play, the viewer feels as if bread-crumbs, the assurance of a safe journey home have been eaten by the birds. But, the disadvantages of the conceptual duel are, at the same time, its virtues, indicating a harmony between form and content.