PERFORMANCE SITUATION ROOM: DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL DISCOURSE IN THE BALKANS

Michael Turinsky is a Vienna-based, physically disabled artist and theoretician, working at the intersection of contemporary dance and performance, disability, and political as well as aesthetic theory. Academically trained as a philosopher at the University of Vienna, Michael began diving into the world of inclusive dance in 2006. Later questioning the notion of inclusion, Michael later coined his own term ‘crip choreography’ to designate his unique artistic practice of engaging the specific, resistant materiality of the body in processes of subverting, de-organizing and re-organizing dominant forms and qualities of movement.

Iva Nerina Sibila is an awarded dance artist, educator, publicist and organiser of cultural events, with a focus on inclusivity and communication with audiences. She earned her three-year contemporary dance education at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, UK and her Master’s degree at the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek, Croatia. She is continuously active and working within dance and performance scenes, both in Croatia and internationally, since 1995. Several of her projects work towards the accessibility and visibility of dance, researching the emancipatory potential of dance education, as well as positioning dance in a broader social context. She is the artistic director of Divert.

Igor Zenzerović (1990), born in Pula, works in the field of contemporary performance practices, focusing on performances, postdramatic theatre and other hybrid forms. After finishing his high school studies in Pula, he studied and finished Cultural Studies (Bachelor) at the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as Comparative Literature and Cultural Anthropology (Masters) at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Igor is an active participant of civil society, and worked and continues to work with youth (DC Rojc, Udruga ZUM). Some of his current active projects are the literary-experimental forum Predvečer Poetike (2019 – ) and Divlja Čitanka (2023 – ).