PREPARING FOR THE PRESENT

Ana Kreitmeyer
performance

What is our relationship to the future?
The performance traverses from feelings of anxiety to determination, diving into darkness and heightened light.
A glimpse of the darkened sky resolves all doubts.

Preparing For The Present deals with the attempt of finding an affective response to the challenges posed by the climate crisis. Its structure is based on a series of exercises (affective, physical, cognitive) which serve as preparation for disasters that we both can and cannot anticipate on the basis of current and bygone ones, while consciously playing with the absurdities and impossibilities of such an endeavor in the context of uncertain consequences resulting from decades of slow violence caused by fossil capital and extractivist logic. Immersed in darkness and allowing bursts of white light, the performance is interested in overwhelming emotions that range from anxiety and indifference to readiness and determination, embracing that chaos and its irresolvability, as well as the frustration with conflicting decisions on how we decide to act in the present. Preparing for flight, scarcity, or heat is just as important as preparing for endurance, a hug, or perseverance, in the hope that a community based on friendship would withstand all upcoming rhythms and challenges.

CHOREOGRAPHY: Ana Kreitmeyer 
PERFORMANCE: Ana Novković, Jovana Zelenović/Ana Kreitmeyer, Koraljka Begović, Margareta Firinger, Silvija Dogan
DRAMATURGE: Nina Gojić
SET AND COSTUME DESIGN: Silvio Vujičić
MUSIC: Neven Benko
LIGHT DESIGN: Igor Pauška 
VIDEO INSTALLATION: Vanja Babić
CHOREOGRAPHY FOR THE VIDEO INSTALLATION: Zrinka Užbinec and Ana Kreitmeyer
TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Jasmin Dasović
PRODUCER: Hana Zrnčić Dim
ASSISTANT OF DRAMATURGY: Margareta Sinković
VIDEO DOCUMENTATION AND EDITING: Dražen Žerjav

FRIEND OF THE PROJECT: Zrinka Užbinec 
THANKS: Nikolina Pristaš, Marko Crnčević, Dražen Šivak, Sandra Banić Naumovski
PRODUCTION: Ana Kreitmeyer
CO-PRODUCTION: Domino and CM Ribnjak

The performance is realized as a co-production of the Perforations festival and the Performing Arts Network of the Domino association and as part of the Scena Ribnjak residential program in cooperation with the CM Ribnjak, with the support of the Kultura Nova Foundation, City of Zagreb and the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and with elements of scenography donated by Pijole-G and Kamgrad.

The video installation and the media campaign are realized through the project The Hybrids of Threath, with the support of the City of Zagreb and the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia.