Matija Ferlin & Ame Henderson: SHOW GONE - performance 16.5.
After presenting a work-in-progress at the Mediterranean Dance Center last September, Matija Ferlin and Ame Henderson return to MPC with Show Gone, a Croatian-Canadian co-production that premiered in November 2025 at L’Agora de la danse in Montreal.
May 16 at 20:00
Mediterranean Dance Center, Svetvinčenat
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
They turn the lights up. Then they turn the lights out.
The snap changes everything. Again and again a new world appears, fit for their back-and-forth of confession and revelation. The show happens in a rubato strobe, an anti-social-media scroll session that exposes the desire and the impossibility of controlling the narrative.
To do theory means to think in response to the visible world, to form a pattern from information. And the basic unit of information that these theorists see everywhere is the ending. They know so much has already ended: lives and ways of life; bodies, politics, and, most of all, the certainty that there will always be another chance. Yet somehow the information keeps coming.
It wasn’t what they’d intended. Eight years worth of endings had elapsed since they’d been together. A long time in choreographer years, longer than they’d ever been apart. The fact gave rise to two questions:
“What do we need to know in order to cross the bridge to each other? And what do we need to forget so that we can begin?”
The double-question became their starting point. The two choreographers answer with a calculated loss of the plot.
Show Gone is a cinema of sentences. Instead of still images shown fast enough to give the illusion of life, it presents life-story fragments at human speed. From its endless endings gradually emerges the feeling of a beginning.
CAST & CREDITS
Choreography + Performance: Matija Ferlin, Ame Henderson
Dramaturgy: Goran Ferčec
Scenography: Mauricio Ferlin
Lighting Design: Dario Družeta
Costumes: Matija Ferlin, Desanka Janković
Artistic Support: Diego Gil, Katie Ward
French surtitles: David Gagnon Walker
Communications: Evan Webber
Documentation: Noel Pendawa
Technical Direction: Darah Miah
Produced by Provincija and Ame Henderson Projects
Co-produced by L’Agora de la danse (Montreal) and Public Recordings (Toronto)
Developed in residency at Mediterranean Dance Center (Svetvinčenat, Croatia) and L’Agora de la danse (Montreal)
Supported by: Canada Council for the Arts, City of Pula, Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia