Moritz Ostruschnjak: NON+ULTRAS - performance 19.7.2025.

As part of the July performance programme at the Mediterranean Dance Centre, on 19 July at 10 PM, Grimani Castle will host NON+ULTRAS, a performance by German choreographer Moritz Ostruschnjak. This piece for eight performers and 500 football scarves explores contemporary expressions of fanaticism, protest aesthetics, and mass identity, using football iconography, dance, and video as tools for choreographic reflection on society today.

 

Moritz Ostruschnjak: NON+ULTRAS, Germany
July 19th 2025., 10 pm, Castle Grimani, San Vincenti

CAST & CREDITS
Choreography: Moritz Ostruschnjak
Choreographic collaboration: Daniela Bendini
Performed by: Guido Badalamenti, David Cahier, Daniel Conant, Edoardo Cino, Nora Monsecour, Luca Seixas, Miyuki Shimizu, Magdalena Agata Wójcik
Video: Moritz Stumm
Light design: Tanja Rühl
Music (mix & editing): Jonas Friedlich
Scenography: Moritz Stumm, Moritz Ostruschnjak
Costumes: Daniela Bendini, Moritz Ostruschnjak
Dramaturgy: Armin Kerber
Photography: Franziska Strauss
Production manager: Susanne Ogan
Tour management: Pascal Jung
Press: Simone Lutz
Produced by: Moritz Ostruschnjak
Co-produced by: Muffathalle Betriebs GmbH and Theater Freiburg


ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
On stage – hundreds of scarves: Juventus Turin, Sauerland Powerland, Iran, All Blacks, Mickey Mouse Club. Fan merchandise becomes a symbol of belonging, ideology, and resistance. In NON+ULTRAS, Moritz Ostruschnjak uses the logic of social media to explore the links between football culture, political protest, and pop iconography.

On the surface, the setting evokes a stadium: fan chants, video projections of matches and FIFA congresses, dancers in jeans and Fred Perry shirts. But beneath that layer, euphoria turns political. The choreography blends urban movement with abstraction, inviting the audience into moments of silence and sensory overload – flares, mascots, Beethoven and Arabic slogans.

The piece unfolds as an explosive collage in which football fans, protests, TikTok, national symbols, and populist imagery clash without warning. NON+ULTRAS offers a choreographic lens on a world addicted to spectacle, polarised and fractured, where bodies march in formation, fall into trance, and move to the beat of invisible commands.


BIO
Moritz Ostruschnjak explores how digitalisation, visual culture, and mechanisms of the spectacle society shape bodies and collective identity. His performances are choreographic spaces where meme aesthetics, football, political protest, and pop culture collide through movement.

A former graffiti artist and breakdancer, he trained at Iwanson International in Munich and under Maurice Béjart in Lausanne. Since 2013, he has worked as a freelance choreographer, creating acclaimed works such as Text Neck, UNSTERN, AUTOPLAY, Rabbit Hole, and TERMINAL BEACH. His works have been selected three times for Tanzplattform Deutschland (2020, 2022, 2024).


TICKETS
Ticket: 20 EUR
Purchase via Entrio: https://bit.ly/nonplusultras
Reservations: rezervacije@mediteranskiplesnicentar.hr

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Moritz Ostruschnjak: NON+ULTRAS - performance 19.7.2025.

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