APOLLONIAN

Concept and choreography: Martina Nevistić
Performance: Petra Chelfi, Lana Hosni, Martina Nevistić
Dramaturgy: Nina Gojić
Vizual design, scenography, costimography: Martina Granić
Costumes made by: Mirela Periša, Nina Tarnovski NTS
Video design and editing: Dora Đurkesac
Video and photography: Neven Petrović
Sound design: Višeslav Laboš
Music: Višeslav Leboš featuring Nep
Voice over: Luka Bulović, Kruno Bakota
Production: O.N.E.
Co-production: Perforation festival/ Domino Association, Artist-in-residence program of Zagreb dance center/ Organization Croatian institut of movement and dance
With the support: City of Zagreb, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia, z/k/m, Zagreb Dance Company

At the end of 1960ꞌs first images of the Earth as seen from the space occurred, assigning our planet the nickname “Blue marble”. These images continued to be massively distributed after the Moon landing in 1969. The idea of human civilization as a unified entity ungoverned by racial, class and other identity categories, but rendered as a unified whole, gained its visual representation twenty years before the Cold War ended. In a sense, the image of the Earth as seen from its orbit anticipated the end of a binary relationship to the world. Moreover, it became an icon of a globalized world we know today, even though this image is still far from principles of equality called for by the counter-cultural movements from the period of the first flights to space. The flight to the Moon – and its televisual mediation – caused a turnover in the way human perception of the world is organized: for the first time in history the man saw the Earth from the “outside”, from the perspective of its satellite, as a unified whole.
With a multimedia approach to choreography: by juxtaposing recorded and performed material the author tries to point out that deterritorialised images without a grounded gaze prevail in today's communication. At the level of choreography, the issue is dealt with by generating the material through a process of speculation about bodies that adjust to modified physical conditions, different gravitations and unknown biospheres. At the same time, symbolic reference to the flight to the Moon functions as a framework by which it becomes not only possible to make the current crisis of visuality a topic, but also to question the possibilities of transforming this condition.

Martina Nevistić was born in 1983 in Zagreb. She works as an author of contemporary dance and multimedia productions. Collaborating with dance and other artists, she creates dance and multimedia performances, and dance films (Pulsar, experimental dance film; Apollonian, multimedia performance and video; Event Horizon, performance and video; Luna Malekova, multimedia performance; Sisyphus Pink, experimental dance video, Evolution Revolution, multimedia installation etc). She gained an MA degree in organization and management from the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, and an MA in dance from SEAD, Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. She received two international scholarships, Nomad Dance Academy 2009 and Communicating Dance 2014-2015. From 2009 to 2017 she was a member of Zagreb Dance Company. Martina holds classes of yoga and contemporary dance techniques for professional dancers in Croatia and abroad, and since November 2016 works as the program director of Zagreb Dance Center.