Theater and Dance
The artistic organization Škvadra was founded in 2018 in Zagreb. Škvadra is a group of 9 young professional dance artists, born out of the need to create their opportunities, collaborations, and projects. One of the main interests of the artistic organization Škvadra is collaboration with other dancers as well as artists working in different artistic mediums. Additionally, driven by the desire for change and revitalization in dance art in Croatia, they aim to bring theater and dance closer to people through their work, making it accessible, new, and challenging. Therefore, Škvadra’s interest is focused on performances in theatrical spaces and exploring alternative performance spaces, site-specific performances, different advertising methods, and promoting dance art.
The members of Škvadra are: Anđela Bugarija, Ema Crnić, Marta Habulin-Satinović, Ema Kani, Gendis Putri Kartini, Eva Kocić, Šimun Stankov, Margareta Firinger, and Una Štalcar-Furač.
Škvadra has, until now, realized projects in collaboration with other institutions, organizations, or collectives, emphasizing an interest in site-specific interventions and performances in alternative spaces, works in gallery spaces, as well as in film formats and video works
I Can’t Hear You, It’s Dark
(Zagreb Dance Center)
IDEA AND CONCEPT: Eva Kocić
CHOREOGRAPHY: Škvadra
PERFORMERS: Anđela Bugarija, Ema Crnić, Marta Habulin-Satinović, Ema Kani, Gendis Putri Kartini, Šimun Stankov, Una Štalcar-Fura
MUSIC: Ivan Marojević
COSTUMES: Ema Kani
PHOTOGRAPHY: Silvija Dogan, Alen Kocić
TRAILER: Toni Renaud, Paula Skelin
We are dependent on communication, but how do we achieve it? What makes it effective or impossible? What happens when the content of the message is not as important as the manner in which the message is conveyed? Through dance, we explore these issues, displace them from the context of everyday life, and insert them into the theater, attempting to provide answers or pose new questions to these inquiries. We investigate levels of communication, from the simplest transmission of a message from sender to receiver, to other more complex components that constitute a conversation, i.e., mutual exchange of information.
With this open-ended play, we leave room to embrace playful thoughts unburdened by content.
Pool
(Zagreb Dance Center)
IDEA AND CONCEPT: Ema Crnić, Šimun Stankov
CHOREOGRAPHY: Ema Crnić
PERFORMANCE: Margareta Firinger, Marta Habulin-Satinović, Ema Kani, Eva Kocić, Una Štalcar Furač
MUSIC: Roko Crnić, Ivan Marojević, Miro Manojlović
SET DESIGN: Jakov Habjan
DRAMATURGICAL SUPPORT: Ivana Slunjski
COSTUME ADVISOR: Zdravka Ivandija Kirigin
LIGHTING: Toni Modrušan
TRAILER: Paula Skelin
PHOTOGRAPHY: Silvija Dogan
POSTER DESIGN: Marin Remić
The idea of the body in flight, the feeling of weightlessness, as if held by air, then let go, briefly in balance that disappears as soon as you become aware of it – a fleeting achievement with a lasting impression. We did that, we learned that way. You try until it passes, sometimes it could be measured, and sometimes not. I shift my weight forward and it propels me into a fall that I try to control my way, you follow after me. A smooth round hole in the asphalt, filled with our attempts. Sometimes the whole afternoon, sometimes the whole day. I’m proud of us. I’m disappointed in us. It’s not the same for me, and I know it’s not the same for you. Here, we share motivation like we share water when someone is thirsty, like we share time, and like we share air. Soon it will be dark, I have to go now, see you tomorrow. I can’t wait to start again.
Stories can change very quickly, and we change with them. Do you remember when we caught the ground under our feet?
On July 3, 2013, SC Pool was saved. Support came from all sides, machines were stopped. The happy house suffered, the cultural scene of the Student Center had been collapsing for a long time, but SC Pool remained in place.
On August 9, 2019, SC Pool was demolished. This time they devised a more efficient strategy. The pool did not endure, but fortunately, memories cannot be taken away by bulldozers. There is sorrow for brighter times and the Student Center as an unavoidable point of urban culture, not only for students and not only for Zagreb. But as long as there is asphalt, there will be skateboarding.
Pierottijeva 11
(AKC Medika)
CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE: Anđela Bugarija, Ema Crnić, Margareta Firinger, Marta Habulin-Satinović, Eva Kocić, Ema Kani, Gendis Putri Kartini, Šimun Stankov, Una Štalcar-Furač
MUSIC: Luka Čapeta, Ana Kovačić, Karlo Lugarić
CAMERA AND EDITING: Karla Kocić, Roland Rostohar
PRODUCTION: UO Škvadra in collaboration with AKC Medika
The film “Pierottijeva 11” represents one of the reactions of the Artistic Organization Škvadra to events in the city of Zagreb. The lack of workspace, the closure of places for urban and street culture, unclear and illogical political decisions that have a huge impact on us as young artists, recent disasters that struck the city and exacerbated existing problems…
AKC Medika is one of those urban spaces for gathering, meeting, sharing art, seemingly in an inescapable situation of imminent disappearance. This film is dedicated to its time of sharing work and art in Medika, as an entity that has been supporting, providing space, opening up and creating collaborations for years, critically observing and fighting for its continued existence alongside the people within it.
As young artists who create and present their work through the artistic organization, one of the important aspects of our professional and personal lives is experiencing our city and the spaces within it. Therefore, we feel the need to share and communicate about topics that affect us.
Monomyth
(Theater &TD)
PERFORMERS: Eva Kocić and Gendis Putri Kartini
CHOREOGRAPHY: Marta Habulin-Satinović
MUSIC: Branimir Norac
DRAMATURGY: Patrik Gregurec
LIGHTING DESIGN: Martin Šatović
COSTUME DESIGN: Barbara Radelja
POSTER DESIGN: Julia Stura
PHOTO: Luka Dubroja
The MONOMYTH existed scattered in folk tales long before Joseph Campbell recognized it through meticulous analysis of a corpus of folk stories. In his role as a catalyst, Campbell introduced the MONOMYTH to the world as a pattern hidden behind “every story ever told and at its core, older than the pyramids, Stonehenge, and the oldest cave drawings.” He named this narrative paradigm the “hero’s journey.” Setting out on a journey through time, space, theorists, artists, and their works, always manifesting anew, the MONOMYTH eventually reached the musician Branimir Norac. Norac heard it, set it to music, and sent it further on its way. The MONOMYTH, now in the form of a composition, crosses the threshold and arrives before Škvadra.
Despite catastrophe and all accompanying hardships, the emancipated MONOMYTH endures as the first, profound, primordial story in the bodies of Škvadra until the climax, which you are about to witness. It seems that the MONOMYTH itself has undergone Campbell’s hero’s journey, consisting of a catalyst, crossing the threshold, catastrophe, and climax, but on its journey, like all things that travel, it has developed in an unforeseen direction. Now it is closer to the thoughts of the great American writer Thornton Wilder, “Myth is not a story that is read from left to right, from beginning to end, but a thing that is held in front of the eyes all the time.”
At Home on the Beach
(May-June 2021)
DIRECTOR: Aleksandar Švabić in collaboration with artists from Škvadra
PERFORMERS: Šimun Stankov, Eva Kocić, Marta Habulin, Anđela Bugarija, Una Štalcar-Furač, Ema Crnić, Ema Kani, Gendis Putri Kartini, Margareta Firinger
MUSIC: Ruaraidh Osborne
CAMERA AND EDITING: Karla Kocić
FILMS: Cream, When, Heat, (Pa)rked
PHOTO: Luka Dubroja
“At Home on the Beach” is a series of 4 short dance films that represent a part of the process of working on the theatrical performance titled “The Beach.” We consider these films as a preparation for going to the beach, i.e., as a preparation for the work on the performance. Guided by the idea of the performance, the films address the preparation and the journey to the beach with a desire to achieve an idyllic vacation and absolute peace, which actually brings along significant stress, nervousness, and issues. The films use an ironic, romanticized, and humorous approach to human activities that we sometimes recognize as senseless and hysterical.
BEACH
(Theater &TD)
CONCEPT, IDEA, AND DIRECTOR: Aleksandar Švabić, Damir Klemenić
STAGE MOVEMENT: Damir Klemenić
PERFORMERS AND CO-AUTHORS: Ema Kani, Gendis Putri Kartini, Margareta Firinger, Šimun Stankov, Marta Habulin, Una Štalcar-Furač, Nataša Kopeč
MUSIC: Filip Vrtarić
COSTUME DESIGNERS: Mia Popovska, David Morhan
DESIGN: Pavel Papadimitrov
PHOTO: Luka Dubroja
“Beach” unfolds, magnifies, and pixelates events that take place at the location of a real beach, providing them the opportunity to become dramatic situations, choreographies. We refer to the beach as social intimacy, a place where social norms and societal consensus are established, revealing the possibility for every detail to become an opportunity for dramatic-dance shaping.
OBLIQUE
(KNAP)
CHOREOGRAPHER: Šimun Stankov
DANCERS: Ema Crnić, Ema Kani, Eva Kocić, Gendis Putri Kartini
MUSICIANS: Luka Čapeta, Hrvoje Kralj, Jerko Jurin
LIGHTING DESIGN: Andrija Santro
POSTER DESIGN: Sven Sorić
PHOTOGRAPHER: Karla Kocić
The project “Oblique” is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Artistic Organization Škvadra and the electronic jazz band Trokut. It is a dual musical and scenic performance that explores the connection between movement and rhythm, melodic-harmonic forms, and textures. The project challenges performers to explore different contexts within their performance spheres – musicians in the realm of music and dancers in the realm of movement. The performers delve into the question of fixed composition in both music and movement, contrasting it with structured improvisation as a tool through which performers create their rendition.
FIRST 3
(Garage Kamba)
A co-production project of Garage Kamba and the Artistic Organization Škvadra consisting of 3 works.
“Something new, something old, borrowed, and…”
AUTHOR: Marta Habulin-Satinović
PERFORMERS: Anđela Bugarija, Eva Kocić, Gendis Putri Kartini, Šimun Stankov
MUSIC: Branimir Norac
“Survivors”
AUTHOR: Una Štalcar-Furač
PERFORMERS: Boris Barukčić, Ema Kani, Margareta Firinger, Šimun Stankov
“No Distances”
AUTHOR, PERFORMER, EDITOR: Ema Crnić
CAMERAMAN: Urh Pirc
MUSIC: Luka Čapeta
TECHNICAL SETUP: Jakov Habjan
NARRATION: Miha Crnić, Roko Crnić, Ema Crnić, Sara Znaor, Andreja Prevendar Crnić, Hrvoj Crnić
STORIES: Ante Zlatko Stolica, from the book “Blizina svega” (The Proximity of Everything)
Garage Kamba becomes a kind of temporary Škvadra archive, gathering reflections on the collective’s previous works, accumulated artistic interests, as well as questions related to collectivity that seek possible answers and, in the process, open up new questions. Engaging in a dialogue with the spatial constraints of the garage itself, the common denominator that emerged is the idea of overcrowding, approached from three perspectives – the space of intimacy, the space of expectations, and the space of production without tangible goals.
Agenda
Concept and direction: Simone Aughterlony and Saša Božić
In collaboration with performers: Katarina Barešić, Boris Barukčić, Ivana Bojanić, Dora Brkarić, Viktoria Bubalo, Margareta Firinger, Nic Lloyd, Šimun Stankov, Melissa Valette, Thomas Vantuycom
Costume design: Marita Čopo
Set design: Igor Ruf
Lighting design: Joseph Wegmann
Music: Nikola Krgović
Production for de facto: Ida Klemenčić
Public relations: Ivana Sansević
Photography: Neven Petrović
House Bolero
Concept and choreography: Matej Kejžar
Performance: Branko Banković, Ana Mrak, Ana Vnučec, Martina Tomić, Ida Jolić, Šimun Stankov, and Ana Novković
Lighting design and scenography: Petra Veber
Photography: Nina Đurđević
Production: Studio for Contemporary Dance
Kolo
Authors: Petra Hrašćanec i Saša Božić
Choreography: Petra Hrašćanec
Dramaturgy: Saša Božić
Performers: Livio Badurina / Damir Klemenić, Nikša Butijer, Ema Crnić, Jelena Miholjević, Una Štalcar Furač, Šimun Stankov, i umjetnice Ansambla LADO: Klara Kašnar i Ana Drobina
BOLI KOLO
Choreography: Petra Hrašćanec
Dramaturgy: Saša Božić
Performers: Ema Crnić, Damir Klemenić, Šimun Stankov, Una Štalcar Furač
Umjetnik za hitne intervencije
CONCEPT: Clément Layes
PERFORMERS: Dina Ekštajn, Ana Vnučec, Stevie Koglin / Šimun Stankov
LIGHTING DESIGN: Bojan Gagić
COSTUME: Ana Savić-Gecan
ASSISTANT COSTUME DESIGNER: Ozana Gabriel
SET DESIGN: Jonas Maria Droste Clément Layes
PRODUCTION: Studio for Contemporary Dance and Cie Public in Private in co-production with Platform HR and in collaboration with ZKM
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Bosiljka Vujović-Mažuran
PRODUCER: Branko Banković
PRODUCTION SUPPORT: Koraljka Begović
Euphoria
Authorial project: Ksenija Zec
Dramaturgy and script: Saša Božić
Set designer: Igor Ruf
Costume designer: Zdravka Ivandija
Music: Nikola Krgović N/OBE
Lighting: Saša Božić, Anton Modrušan
Assistant dramaturge: Sandra Pašić
Assistant costume designer: Tina Spahija
Stage manager: Milica Sinkauz
Graphic design: Antonio Dolić
Photography: Marko Ercegović
Twelfth Night or What You Will
Director: Grzegorz Jarzyna
Text: Grzegorz Jarzyna, Roman Pawłowski
Costume design: Anna Axer Fijalkowska
Set design: AAFGJAP
Lighting: Aleksandr Prowalinski
Video: Ivan Marušić-Klif
Music and sound design: Marko Levanić and Ivana Starčević
Stage movement: Šimun Stankov
Dramaturgy: Roman Pawłowski
Translation from Polish: Jelena Kovačič
Assistant directors: Patrik Sečen, Petra Prša
Assistant costume designer: Marta Žegura
Lighting associate: Marino Frankola
Photography: Marko Ercegović
Stage manager: Petra Prša
Language consulting: Ines Carović
Subtitle translation: Mirna Herman
The play features excerpts from the Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, translated into Croatian by Milan Bogdanović
The Bold Soprano
Directed by: Suzana Nikolić
Dramaturge/Assistant director: Espi Tomičić
Stage and costume designer: Ana Savić Gecan
Stage movement: Šimun Stankov
Music: Alen i Nenad Sinkauz
Creators of video material: Marko Turčinov i Mihael Šandro
Lighting design: Aleksandar Čavlek
Assistant stage designer: Frano Jurić
Assistant costume designer: Marta Žegura
Stage manager: Dina Ekštajn
Murder
Translation: Andrea Weiss Sadeh
Stage director: Ido Rozenberg
Dramaturge: Sanja Ivić
Set designer: Shani Tur
Costume designer: Ana Mikulić
Lighting designer: Keren Granek
Stage movement advisor: Šimun Stankov
Video designer: Ivan Marušić Klif
Music selection: Ido Rozenberg
Sound designer and composer: Nikolina Belan
Assistant director: Marta Tutiš
Assistant set director: Aleksandra Vukićević
Assistant costume designer: Josip Đerek
Kafka On The Shore
Director: Ivica Buljan
Dramaturge: Mirna Rustemović
Set Designer: David Maljković
Costume Designer: Ana Savić Gecan
Composer: Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar
Stage Movement: Šimun Stankov
Light and Video Designers: Sonda 4, Toni Soprano Meneglejte
Assistant Director: Patrik Sečen (volunteer)
Assistant Set Designer: Antonija Veljačić
Assistant Costume Designer: Mirjam Krajina