{"id":2507,"date":"2025-11-11T21:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freedance.hr\/en\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2025-11-11T21:51:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:51:41","slug":"one-day-ill-make-an-onion-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freedance.hr\/en\/one-day-ill-make-an-onion-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"ONE DAY, I\u2019LL MAKE AN ONION CRY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cOne Day, I\u2019ll Make an Onion Cry\u201d is a dance performance that blends humour, memory, and movement to explore how time shapes the body and identity. Through fragments of everyday wisdom and the joy of self-discovery, two dancers reveal how stories live on within the body \u2014 always in motion, never still.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two bodies are caught in the present, yet all they think about is what they once could do, what they can no longer do today, or simply what they now do differently. The tragedy of confronting physical maturation, which at first seems helpless, transforms into a comedy of self-discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the artistic process, they find answers in the wealth of experiences they have lived through. With each step, they uncover invisible tattoos woven deep into the muscles, memory, and emotions of their ever-changing, transient bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By collecting short, humorous quotes from building walls, ruins, and internet pages, two dancers recognise fragments of their own lives. They treat these as a kind of buffer \u2014 a playful shield against the passage of time, their own mutability, and the inevitability of ageing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This becomes a platform for developing relationships \u2014 between each other, and between each and her own self \u2014 from which their life anecdotes unfold and dance out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Passing by graffiti \u2014 random words we catch from the corner of our eye as we walk \u2014 prompts us to pause, turn, or change pace. All these small physical actions are directed towards a single purpose: the passer-by\u2019s thought process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it ends with a smile\u2026 because in that pile of quick-fire wisdom, we recognise ourselves as whole beings. We discover an identity that has lived for years within the dancer\u2019s body \u2014 one that simply wants to move. To pause. To turn. To smile.It wants to rhythmise and repeat, endlessly, until exhaustion. Because in the end, we all become stories \u2014 and the dancer\u2019s body doesn\u2019t know how to stop telling them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Creative Team
Concept and Idea: Maja Drobac
Choreography \/ Performance: Maja Drobac and Melita Spahi\u0107 Bezjak
Dramaturgy: Maja Marjan\u010di\u0107
Music: Ana Horvat
Costumes and Set Design: Diana Mihali\u0107 and the Creative Team
Lighting Design: Robert Pavli\u0107
Visuals: Sven Coponey
Voice: Laura \u010cerina
Photography: Denis Sto\u0161i\u0107

Production: Association of Dance Artists of Croatia
Co-production: Free Dance

The project is funded by the City Office for Culture of the City of Zagreb and the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia.
The performance is part of the residency programme of the Karlovac Dance Festival, held under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and the City of Karlovac, with financial support from the Kultura nova Foundation.


12. 11. 2025. | Kino Edison Karlovac | 18:30
 9. 12. 2025. | Zagreb Dance Centre | 20:00
10. 12. 2025. | Zagreb Dance Centre | 20:00

Special thanks to the Zagreb Dance Centre for providing the space.
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