Drugajanje Festival, performance GIRLS by Tjaša Črnigoj and Collective Igralke 10 th  November 2025 In one of the opening scenes, the performers of the Igralke collective explain that “cure” – the Croatian word for “girls” comes from a verb meaning “to leak” — a verbal symptom of cultural mechanism of reducing women to their biology, which for centuries served to keep them in a position of subordination and, consequently, to limit their rights as well as their political and s

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

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