Ognjen Vučinić & ZPA: Bez niti: Site-Specific Premiere
Bez niti is a new site-specific performance created by choreographer, dancer, and pedagogue Ognjen Vučinić together with members of Zagreb Dance Company. The piece connects the company’s history and present, transforming traces of past works into new stage situations.
CAST & CREDITS
Choreography: Ognjen Vučinić
In collaboration and performed by: Lara Kapeloto, Iva Katarinčić, Silvija Musić, Linda Tarnovski
Music: Melita Lovričević
Costumes: Ana Fucijaš, Zdravka Ivandija Kirigin (from the dance piece Devils Garden)
Production: Zagreb Dance Company
Co-production: Mediterranean Dance Center Svetvinčenat
Support: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb, Istrian Region, Municipality of Svetvinčenat
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
The work explores space as a place of transformation—where traces of past movements and choreographies dissolve, are repurposed, and reshaped into new dance patterns. Inspired by the processes of recycling, Vučinić constructs regenerating structures, guided by the idea that energy is never lost but merely shifts from one form to another.
The performance incorporates fragments and materials from earlier Zagreb Dance Company works: The Devil’s Garden (David Hernandez, 2016), Staging a Play: Tartuffe (Matija Ferlin, 2017), Plac – Cai Shichang (Wen Hui, 2017), Anything (Daniel Abreu, 2013).
Through the bodies of current company members, these traces are recycled and transformed into new stage situations, creating a network of memories and transformations. The recycling process continues in the music—composer Melita Lovričević layers sound and joins the performance live, making the piece simultaneously a reconstruction, a reinterpretation, and a new work.
The premiere will take place at Žlinja as part of the Mediterranean Dance Center programme, a few days after segments of the performance are recorded in VR technology for the international project D. Dance Alliance.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ognjen Vučinić began his dance training in Pula and became a member of Zagreb Dance Company in 2001. Today he works as a choreographer and pedagogue based in Belgrade, co-founder of the dance company MASA, guest lecturer at the Institute for Artistic Dance, and author of numerous award-winning works. His oeuvre brings together performance experience, choreographic research, and pedagogical work. As a former ZPA member, with this project he returns to the company through a homage that is both personal and collective.
TICKETS
Admission to the site-specific performance on 18 September 2025 at 6 PM at Žlinja is free.
For information and group reservations: rezervacije@mediteranskiplesnicentar.hr