Zuzanna Berendt visited 24th Drugajanje Festival and writes about the performance Girls by Tjaša Črnigoj and Collective Igralke, presented on 10th November 2025 In one of the opening scenes, the performers of the Igralke collective explain that “cure” – the Croatian word for “girls” comes from a verb meaning “to leak” — a verbal symptom of cultural mechanism of reducing women to their biology, which for centuries served to keep them in a position of subordination and, conseq

“ Contemporary dance is too free ” − said a high school-aged audience member after the dance performance of Milan Tomášik called Treatise...

As I look back on the Drugajanje Festival and the critic’s residency, I take inspiration from the title of the larger project Beyond Front@; Bridging Peripheries . I ponder what it actually means to create connections between peripheral places, geographically and artistically. In this context, my role is the one of the critic, but since I am also an artist myself, as well as a curator, there are multiple layers to the ways in which I observe. A recurring question for me is ho