Author: Emese Kovács. Life’s cycle never truly halts, and there’s little way to escape the grip of social pressure and embeddedness — at least, that’s what

Author: Ingeborg Zackariassen. Arriving in Zagreb in May meant stepping straight into the overlap of two collaborating festivals: Balkan Moves and Dance Week Festival. Packed audiences

Author: Zuzanna Berendt. The four seasons motif in culture symbolize cyclicality — the constant process that tangles together death, decay, rebirth, and flourishing of the

Author: Jaka Bombač. A philosophically informed review of two performances seen in the context of the Drugajanje 2024 festival. In his book Exhausting dance: Performance

Author: Ingeborg Zackariassen. Upon entering the auditorium at Cricoteka, the audience was gathered in the foyer at the bottom of the stairs, receiving an introduction

Author: Emese Szabó. The Beyond Front@ project’s stipend for young critics was an important opportunity for me. In Romania, most of us consider critical work

Author: Emese Kovács. “Contemporary dance is too free” − said a high school-aged audience member after the dance performance of Milan Tomášik called Treatise at

Author: Ingeborg Zackariassen. As I look back on the Drugajanje Festival and the critic’s residency, I take inspiration from the title of the larger project Beyond

Author: Szymon Golec. it’s hard to start sometimes for me it’s even harder to end but we’re nowhere near the end Lia Ujčič and András

Author: Karla Mesek. Although the title of the performance may not reveal much, or perhaps nothing, about the performance itself, I choose the title as