Ognjen Vučinić within Danube Dance Alliance project: Residency and presentation

As part of the international project D. Dance Alliance, the Mediterranean Dance Center hosted Istrian choreographer and performer Ognjen Vučinić, who began developing a new choreography in collaboration with dancers from the Zagreb Dance Company.

During the June residency, Vučinić explored the idea of space as a site of transformation — where previous movements and choreographies are melted down, repurposed, and reshaped. Inspired by recycling processes, the work investigates how energy — physical, emotional, or creative — is never lost, but transitions from one form to another. The dancers’ bodies carry traces of past dances, intertwine them into new patterns, and open up space for cyclical renewal.

On Saturday, June 14, Vučinić led a contemporary dance workshop, followed by a public showing and conversation with the audience.

Choreography: Ognjen Vučinić
Performed by: Iva Katarinčić, Silvija Musić, Lara Kapeloto, Linda Tarnovski
Production: Zagreb Dance Company / Mediterranean Dance Center
Within the project: D. Dance Alliance

ABOUT THE PROJECT D. DANCE ALLIANCE
The D. Dance Alliance project brings together artists and organizations from Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria, and Germany. It is developed in collaboration with the Trbovlje Cultural Center, Iskriva Institute, Festival Velenje (SI), The Collective Foundation (BG), Zagreb Dance Company – Mediterranean Dance Center (HR), Faculty of Engineering Management (RS), and Sarajevo War Theater (BA), with the support of associate partners from Germany, Austria, and Hungary.

The project was developed as part of the New European Bauhaus on the Danube and Balkan Dance Project networks, with a focus on contemporary dance production, technological innovation, international exchange, and community engagement.
Co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme.