21:21: Mandragora
Mandragora explores the exhaustion of contemporary society shaped by neoliberal capitalism, growing nationalisms and structures based on conflict and exploitation.
In such a space of rupture and repressed togetherness, a performance that hovers between a dance ritual and a concert emerges, inviting the audience into a process of shared healing.
Starting from the ritual of knitting and the legacy of women's work as the foundation for connecting the community, "Mandragora" creates a stage space in which dance and music revive archetypal, instinctive and collective impulses. The openness of the stage signs and their multi-layeredness encourage free associations with the figures of witches, the history of their persecution and the ongoing struggle understood as a global feminist metaphor of resistance and self-organization.
The encounter of two musicians and four contemporary dancers, based on mutual play and listening, builds a sensitive, connected and reaction-driven fabric of the performance. "Mandragora" thus becomes an artistic act of invoking the past in order to better understand the present, and a space in which togetherness is not given, but is recreated – through movement, sound and shared experience.
Attendance at the premiere in the BigHall of Pogon Jedinstvo on December 12th will be by invitation, while tickets fee for the replay on December 13th are €10, with reservations at uo2121pr@gmail.com.
