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Niz zečju rupu/Down the Rabbit Hole

Jun 14

The performance Down the Rabbit Hole was first presented as a work-in-progress (pre-premiere) in 2022, and was completed and officially premiered in 2025 with both former and new performers.

About the performance

During the pandemic period, we stepped into a state of anomic consciousness. Everything that is is not, can be, or may not be. Referencing the “nonsense” found in Alice in Wonderland, the dancers enter a process of repeated ascents and descents, fragmentation, running, jumping, and constant attempts to solve problems, abandoning roles and staging play itself as a performance. The stage becomes a symbol of Sisyphean labour — a continuous search for meaning in the process of creating dance material.

We start and stop, rush forward and disappear, try and fail, begin again and again. In these stage “fragments,” we attempted to capture the atmosphere of our creative process. Through numerous dead ends, openings and closures, trials and errors, the only thing that consistently remains — and drives us forward — is shared energy, our play. In the end, this play becomes and remains the only meaning within which we endlessly and uncompromisingly invest ourselves, despite a system that relentlessly consumes us.

Creative team

Author: Lucija Zalović
Choreographers: Lucija Zalović & Nikolina Dolfić Tomić
Assistant choreographer: Vana De Pol

Performers: Klara Boraska, Ivana Dadić, Duje Donadić, Mona Mia Dao, Hrvoje Jakopović, Mirjana Kamber, Marija Karaman, Korina Nika Kučić, Maria Prokhorova, Stela Lara Tenšek, Justina Vojaković-Fingler, Margarita Vuko, Danijela Vuković, Lucijana Živković

Music: Hogar Jakelić
Lighting design & technical support: Siniša Jakovčević
Photography: Frane Brboleža
Video: Hrvoje Jadrić

Production: Dance Association Tiramola with the support of MKC
Supported by: Kultura Nova Foundation, Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Split

Premiere: 14 June 2025, Amphitheatre of Youth Center (Dom mladih), Split