Concept, choreography: Petra Zanki & Britta Wirthmüller
Performance: Petra Zanki
Music: Phill Niblock, Hurdy Hurry from Touch Works for Hurdy Gurdy and voice, 1999.
Photography: Damir Žižić
Design: Damir Gamulin
Production: Banana Gerila in collaboration with HIPP-TSP and ekscena
With the kind support of: City Council Zagreb, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Goethe Institut Kroatien & Unfriendly Takeover.
Many thanks to: Phill, Una, Mirna & Marjana.

 

No movement is ever to be repeated in the exact same way, no picture is ever to be taken twice. We live our lives in the midst of inconsistency. Yet, we get along surrounded by constant change. Blindly we trust, that also tomorrow we will recognize the world as such.

In Paces, all elements of the performance undergo a gradual modulation. What looks like a repetition at first sight, is a minimal alteration of the previous. As the fog evaporates, the room slightly drifts, the sound indiscernibly spreads itself and the body paces itself into a constant oscillation. It is a continuous exchange of equal values, that gently draws the audience into a space of perpetual movement.

Petra Zanki is a dancer and choreographer originally from Split. After receiving her MA in Comparative Literature and French from the University of Zagreb, Petra pursued her studies at the Theatre and performing arts department at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. She worked together with Oliver Frlji', Monta\stroj, Shadow Casters & Via Negativa. Her contributions have been published in the magazines „Kazalište“, „Kretanja“ & „Frakcija“. In 2010. together with Britta Wirthmüller, Petra was awarded the first prize at the Croatian platform of Young Choreographers. She currently works alone as well as collaborating with Wirthmüller on the choreographic cycle Antibodies , and with Tea Tupajić  on The Curators' Piece project. In 2012. she received SPAZIO scholarship from The International Choreographic Arts Centre (ICK) - Emio Greco | PC. She currently lives and works in Zagreb.