TRILOGY

Concept & Choreography: Saša Božić / Petra Hrašćanec
Performers: Petra Hrašćanec, Marko Jastrevski, Matea Bilosnić, Josipa Štulić, Filipa Bavčević
Music selected by: Saša Božić, Petra Hrašćanec
Costume advisor: Zdravka Ivandija-Kirigin
Producer: Andrea Remetin

Trilogy (2011-2013) is Saša Božić's and Petra Hrašćanec's artistic research into special relations between contemporary dance and pop music. The first part of the Trilogy, Love Will Tear Us Apart, is a solo created for Petra Hrašćanec, which fuses several genres and is somewhere between a rock concert, confession, and abstract dance. Love in the title is the love for dance, for dancing such as it is, and the piece considers the difference between dancing and its social aspect by establishing the definition of the performer herself. Love Will Tear Us Apart is one of the most performed Croatian contemporary dance productions in cultural capitals of Europe, such as Milan, Bruxelles, Dublin, Lyon, Paris, and Ljubljana. It won Petra the award of the Croatian Association of Dramatic Artists for the best female dancer in 2012.

Boys Don't Cry, the second part of the Trilogy, explores the legacy of female singers-songwriters from the 1960s, the related issues of female identity on the scene, and the political messages hidden in this kind of music and dance. Female identity is broken down into the voice and the gaze. In this fictional biography of the dancer Petra Hrašćanec, she and her partner Marko Jastrevski seek to answer whose identity it is.

the_beatles is studying one of the most commercial, most successful, and most popular bands in the history of pop music, evoking the golden age of pop music in order to arouse emotional and physical reaction from the viewers. In the_beatles, the pop songs evoke completely different emotional and performing drive in the dancers, bringing the subtext of their relation with the text and music to the surface.

de facto has been performing in Croatia and Europe since 2008. It was founded by theater and dance artists Saša Božić and Zdravka Ivandija-Kirigin, with the intention to work on projects exploring the thin line between theatre and contemporary dance, with a special focus on performers' constitution. Over the last three years, de facto has performed at 25 different theatrical, cultural, and dance venues and festivals all over Europe, with the average of 40 performances per year, from ITD Theatre in Zagreb to Kaaitheatar in Bruxelles, Teatro Grande di Brescia or Avignon Festival, one of the biggest and most influential contemporary performing arts festivals.