Choreography and performance: Ana Kreitmeyer and Zrinka Užbinec
Light design: Alan Vukelić
Costume design: Silvio Vujičić
Sound design: Jasmin Dasović
Producer: Lovro Rumiha
Support: Pravdan Devlahović
Pregovarački tim: Ivana Ivković, Ana Kreitmeyer, Tomislav Medak, Nikolina Pristaš, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Zrinka Užbinec
We thank the participants of the lab 10 days 1 unity.
Project was made in: Culture Centre Novi Zagreb and Zagreb Centre for Independent Culture and Youth – POGON.
Project is supported by: Zagreb City Office for Education, Culture and Sport, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia

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Point of Convergence is a choreographic experiment persisting in the excess where communication in dance and about dance oscillates between what can and what cannot be stated: insisting on choreographic means – structuring the intensity of communication’s noise – producing the specific conditions of dialogue in dance and dialogue on dance. To understand one another, it is necessary to negotiate the terms of understanding.

The authors Zrinka Užbinec and Ana Kreitmeyer implement this negotiation of the terms of understanding, an understanding that is yet to come to understanding, through a series of mutations of dance expressions. A simple initial choreography is communicated to each other through a series of dance negotiations, understandings and misunderstandings through which newly established gestures lose their meaning, and casual glances and signs of a hand become intensities that are changing the context, transforming meanings into an excess.

During this process of “rough” translation the dance expression of one is exposed to a constant and continuous dance interpretation of the other, creating a choreographic situation that is no longer located on the bodies, but between the two bodies. Attempts at negotiation, at translation, misconstructions, explanations one did not request, disagreements, an attempt at coexisting. The point of convergence is left to the spectators’ gaze where, in the illusory distance, two parallel lines intersect at infinity.

Ana Kreitmeyer is a dancer and choreographer who works with the Zagreb based performing collective BADco. She is one of the coordinators of Experimental Free Scene (EkScena), an independent organization established to promote contemporary dance and other forms of perfroming arts. As a dancer she trained with K. Cremona (Cunningham technique) and V. Slamnik (classical ballet). Together with Sandra Banić – Naumovski (OOUR) she creted two choreographies: Drunken Woods and Maybe Once.

Zrinka Užbinec is a dancer and performer with interest in choreography. She is a member of perfromance collective BADco. and one of the coordinators of Experimental Free Scene (EkScena), an independent organization established to promote contemporary dance and other forms of perfroming arts. She works as a pedagogue with children at the Dance Center of the Culture and Education Center “Zagreb”.