Love will tear us apart

The performer presents dance routines to selected post-punk and rock love songs, while in the pauses we hear seemingly trivial details about the production, details that gradually unravel a subtle web of power relations that shape this act. The dancer, Petra Hrašćanec, was awarded the Croatian Theatre Award in 2012 for Best Dance Performance for her role in the performance.

The solo has been performed in many Croatian and international festivals, such as Week of Contemporary Dance (Zagreb, 2011 and 2012), Festival of Dance and Non-Verbal Theatre (Savičenta, 2011), Barutana 011 and 012 Program (Osijek, 2011 and 2012), Monoplay Festival (Zadar, 2011), Art Workshop Lazareti (Dubrovnik, 2011, 2012, 2013), ITD Theatre repertoire (Zagreb, 2011/2012 season), Croatian Dance Scene Showcase (Zagreb, 2011), City to City Cabaret (Zagreb, 2012), IETM Zagreb (2012), WAM Festival (Faenza, Italy, 2012), Théâtre de Colombier – Croatie, la voici program, curated by Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (Paris, 2012), Uovo Festival (Milan, Italy, 2013).

Choreography: Saša Božić and Petra Hrašćanec

Performance: Petra Hrašćanec

Music selection: Saša Božić and Petra Hrašćanec

Producer: Ivana Brajdić

Photo and video: Danko Stjepanović

Production: de facto

Petra Hrašćanec

Petra Hrašćanec is a dancer, choreographer, and educator. Her primary field of interest and training is contemporary dance, and her work is characterized by an exploration of the body as a reality of performance across different media. As a performer, in addition to making her own pieces, she is also an external member of Wee, a group founded in Norway by choreographer Francesco Scavetta. Her choreographic work is developed through the art organization 21:21 (where she is one of the art directors) and through the partner organization de facto, in collaboration with Croatian institutions such as Teatar &TD, Zagreb Youth Theatre, Pogon Jedinstvo, and the Zagreb Dance Centre. Since 2013, she has been leading and mentoring the course Contemporary Dance Technique at the Dance Department of the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art. From 2009 to 2020, she was the art director of the solo dance festival Monoplay in Zadar. Hrašćanec’s works have been presented at renowned European dance festivals and theatre institutions such as Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis in Paris, ImPulsTanz in Vienna, UOVO Festival in Milan, La Raffinerie/Charleroi danse in Brussels, Les Subsistances in Lyon, Théâtre de la Bastille in Paris, among others.