2026

This choreographic work examines spatial transformations. It continues an ongoing inquiry that brings built environment, bodies, and materialities into relation. Developed for three different spaces of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, and co-created with seven dancers, the work maps rhythms of breathing, suspension, repetition, and disappearance—tracing movement as fragments of transience inscribed into bodies, surfaces, forms, and the in-between structures of performance.

Here, landscape is understood as a complex material and political configuration shaped by infrastructural relations, historical layers, regimes of visibility, economies of movement, and how bodies are organized in relation to spaces. Transposition is approached as a mode of environmentality: the ways in which atmosphere and time pass through their immediate material conditions. Built environments influence how bodies relate to their surroundings, forming a multilayered field. Landscape is a process in constant transformation, where bodies become the medium through which tensions between surface and depth, duration and disappearance, and individual and collective experience emerge.

The score foregrounds repetition, relocation, suspension, shared rhythm, and spatial depth while exploring relations between bodies, surfaces, and time. Structured in five dances, it engages the material, atmospheric, and sensory meteorology of the environment. Space is produced through attention, memory, and anticipation, as well as through the body’s limits and points of contact, permeability, and encounter with what surrounds it. A choreographic field emerges between atmospheric forces, duration, and the surrounding structure, in which body and environment are mutually constituted.

Finally, there is a breath encountering time—in an environment that is increasingly precarious and unpredictable, yet still, in this moment, holds the possibility of becoming a generative ground for all. Breathing becomes a minimal but persistent practice of presence, stabilizing existence through the micro-rhythms of shared space. The body belongs to its environment as a porous and shifting entity, embedded in a network of interdependencies whose boundaries are constantly in motion. The temporariness of breathing becomes an ethical and political gesture: a space of sharing, encounter, and duration grounded in attention to what emerges and withdraws, a transience as a shared condition of collective existence.

The first work in the series, Reconstructions: Choreographic Interventions on the Structure of the Surface — Duration, Erosion, Accumulation, Disappearance, developed in collaboration with and set at the Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb, received the 2025 Annual Award of the Croatian Association of Dance Artists for Outstanding Choreography.