Residency - Ana Kreitmayer & Ivana Pavlović: FRAME OF SENSATIONS - workshop 18.7.2026.
From July 13 to 20, the Mediterranean Dance Center will host dance artists Ivana Pavlović and Ana Kreitmeyer, who will continue their work on the research project Frame of Sensations in San Vincenti. During their residency, the artists will further develop material created in collaboration with video artist and photographer Matija Kralj Štefanić and will share part of the process with the local community through the workshop A Body That Looks.
July 18 at 10:00
Mediterranean Dance Center, Svetvinčenat
ABOUT THE PROJECT
We have never had so much memory. We have never had such a short attention span.
This research emerges from precisely this paradox. Frame of Sensations explores the relationship between the body and the image in a time of an uninterrupted flow of visual content. Starting from the question of how images affect attention, emotional experience, and our ability to sustain a gaze, the artists investigate what happens when we give time back to an image.
The project creates space for slowing down and rethinking our relationship to the images that pass through us every day, as well as those that, despite everything, remain. What remains after we look? And what does it mean today to witness a world mediated by images?
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP - The Seeing Body
The Seeing Body is a continuation of the research initiated through the project Frame of Sensations.
Participants are invited to slow down and explore the relationship between the body, the gaze, and photography. Through movement, observation, imagination, and embodied exploration, we will investigate what happens when we give time back to an image and allow ourselves to truly look at it.
Different types of photographs, personal, portrait, and media images will be used to examine what we recognise, understand, and learn from them, but also what unexpectedly touches us and remains present long after the act of looking.
The workshop draws inspiration from the ideas of French theorist Roland Barthes, who distinguishes between two ways of looking at an image:
- studium - what we understand and recognise in an image; its context and meaning.
- punctum - a detail or sensation that surprises us, pricks us, and remains within us on the level of the body and emotions.
Date: July 18, 2026
Time: 10:00–11:30
Venue: Mediterranean Dance Center, Svetvinčenat
Fee: €15
Registration: rezervacije@mediteranskiplesnicentar.hr
Places are limited.
The workshop fee contributes to the implementation of the Mediterranean Dance Center programme, the maintenance of the venue, and the development of future educational activities.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ivana Pavlović is a dance artist and psychologist. As a performer and co-author, she has collaborated with numerous Croatian and international choreographers and artists, including Irma Omerzo, Natalija Manojlović, Ana Kreitmeyer, Sonja Pregrad, Anton Lachky and Alice Chauchat. Her artistic practice is particularly focused on improvisation and collaborations with musicians and composers through various performance and research projects. She was awarded the DanceWeb scholarship in 2014 and was nominated for the Croatian Contemporary Dance Associations Award for Best Individual Performance. In 2019, together with Ana Kreitmeyer, Martina Tomić and Petra Chelfi, she received the Croatian Contemporary Dance Associations Award for Best Overall Performance for All Four for One. On the Edge of Touch and Chaos. She holds a degree in Psychology from the University of Zagreb and is currently training in integrative psychotherapy.
Ana Kreitmeyer is a dance artist, choreographer and educator working in the field of contemporary dance for more than two decades. Since 2003, she has been a member of the collective BADco., while in recent years she has increasingly focused on developing her own choreographic work. She is the author of numerous performances and projects, including Preparing for the Present, Humaning, Fantastic Species, Gone Wild and Drunken Forests. She has received several professional awards for both her individual and collective artistic work. Ana is one of the initiators of the ANTISEZONA programme and a co-founder of EKSCENA (Experimental Free Scene), an independent platform dedicated to the development and promotion of contemporary dance and performance. Alongside her artistic practice, she actively contributes to improving working conditions and strengthening the contemporary dance sector. She graduated from the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Zagreb.