Residency - Matija Ferlin & Ame Henderson - showing 19.9.2025.
This September, local artist Matija Ferlin returns to Svetvinčenat together with Canadian choreographer and performer Ame Henderson. Their new joint project Show Gone is being developed during a residency at the Mediterranean Dance Center, and on September 19 the audience will have the opportunity to see its first work-in-progress presentation.
CAST & CREDITS
Choreography and 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
Communications: Evan Webber
Documentation: Noel Pendawa
Technical Direction: Darah Miah
Production: Provincija and Ame Henderson Projects
Co-production: Agora de la danse, Public Recordings
Creative Residencies: Agora de la danse, Mediterranean Dance Center (Svetvinčenat, Croatia)
Support: Canada Council for the Arts, City of Pula, Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
Photo: Show Gone / Ame Henderson + Matija Ferlin © Noel Pendawa
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
With Show Gone, Toronto-based artist Ame Henderson and Croatian choreographer and theatre director Matija Ferlin bring to a close a trilogy of duets that began fifteen years ago – a creative friendship and a choreographic relay carried through time.
Now, after years apart – with lives transformed and bodies changed – the two artists ask: what must we reveal to one another in order to move forward together once more? How do we reconnect after life has temporarily pulled us apart?
The performance unfolds like an anti-scroll experience, counter to the logic of social media. Instead of static images shown just fast enough to mimic life, it offers fragments of lived stories at human speed. And from this endless sequence of endings, a quiet sense of beginning slowly emerges.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ame Henderson (Toronto) is a choreographer and dance artist whose practice spans publishing, performance, and exhibition formats. As co-founder of the collective Public Recordings, from 2003 to 2015 she produced and performed in more than a dozen ensemble works and collaborated with Toronto Dance Theatre from 2013 to 2019. She works as a performer, dramaturg, and outside eye, and teaches in Canada and abroad. She regularly collaborates with artists such as Katie Ward and Evan Webber.
Matija Ferlin is a Croatian theatre director and choreographer of group works, as well as performer of his own solo pieces. A graduate of the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, he subsequently lived and worked in Berlin and Toronto. Returning to his hometown of Pula, where he was born in 1982, he has focused on researching and reassembling diverse concepts of stage performance, collaborating with both actors and dancers.
TICKETS
Admission to the work-in-progress presentation on September 19 at 8 PM at the Mediterranean Dance Center is free of charge.
To reserve your seat, please contact rezervacije@mediteranskiplesnicentar.hr.