ᴘʀᴇᴍɪᴇʀᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴅᴀɴᴄᴇꜱᴄᴀᴘᴇꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ʙᴏꜱɴɪᴀ
The Festival Dani Savremenog Plesa Sarajevo opened with the premiere of the VR film Dancescapes, accompanied by a series of dance miniatures. The following evening marked another significant moment as the performance With Love From Bosnia brought new life to the abandoned swimming pools at Bentbaša, transforming the site into a unique stage for contemporary dance.
With Love From Bosnia is a poetic journey through memory and forgetting, where bodies trace what time cannot erase.
Concept & Choreography: Branko Mitrović
Set & Costume Design: Adisa Vatreš Selimović
Original Music: Nedim Zlatar
Lighting Design: Nedim Pejdah
Assistant Choreographer: Zulejha Kečo Kapidžić
Hair & Make-up Design: Sanela Aličković Ćatović
Performers
Davor Sabo, Iva Prgić, Hana Zrno, Emir Fejzić, Merjem Šiljak, Ela Selimović
Production: Sarajevo War Theatre (SARTR) in collaboration with Živimo Balet.
PREMIERE; 𝓕𝓸𝓻𝓰𝓸𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓷 𝓟𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮: 𝓡𝓮𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓬𝓮
Exploring the theme of female strength and heritage, the work takes monuments dedicated to heroines as its starting point—powerful yet often overlooked sites of collective memory. Forgotten Presence / Return to the Source invites the audience to reconsider their own relationship to memory and the symbols that shape collective consciousness, offering a contemporary dance interpretation of the female figure as a living, enduring source of strength.
Choreography: Aleksandar Saša Ilić
Dancers: Katarina Bučić, Katarina Iijasevic, and Jovana Grujić
Music and performer: DJ Aleksandra Duende
Performers: Nela Antonovic and the team
Costumes design: Snezana Arnautovic
Photo credit: Belkisa Beka Abdulovic
Founded by: Creative Europe program
𝙿𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝙳𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝙱𝚎𝚕𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚎
As a part of this year’s Festival of Solo, the VR film DANCESCAPES, directed by Enya Belak and created within the Danube Dance Alliance, had its premiere screening. The immersive VR experience invites audiences into a unique encounter with contemporary dance, connecting artists, communities and landscapes across Danube region. As a special prelude to the screening, visitors were given an exclusive glimpse into the future through miniature excerpts from upcoming productions from Velenje, Trbovlje, Belgrade, Svetvinčenat and Sarajevo.
📍European house Belgrade, 29.05.2026.
Partners: Delavski dom Trbovlje, Zavod Iskriva, Iskrišče za razvoj lokalnih potencialov, Festival Velenje , Колективът , Zagrebački plesni ansambl, Inštitut za umetničku igru , Sarajevski ratni teatar- SARTR
Associate partners: Europäische Donau-Akademie | Donaubuero | Ars Electronica | MOME Budapest | Stiftung HfG Ulm
In collaboration with: Balkan DANCE project | New European Bauhaus on the Danube | Udruženje Živimo Balet Sarajevo, Mediterranean Dance Center
Founded by: Creative Europe program
Balkan Dance Project within a Danube Dance Alliance is performing on The Festival of the New European Bauhaus in Brussels in June 2026 with a duet TOUCH.
TOUCH is a contemporary duet by renowned choreographer Igor Kirov. Grounded in physical dialogue, precise composition, and a clear relationship to space, the duet unfolds as a playful system of weight-sharing, balance, and support — powerful yet light, rigorous yet enjoyable. Movement is inspired by principles of order, simplicity, and the relationship between body and architecture.
Rather than dramatic tension, the work offers clarity, rhythm, and the pleasure of moving together. Its physicality is demanding but open, inviting the audience into a shared sense of presence and joy.
The duet is a reimagination of a performance presented and awarded at several prestigious international festivals, resonating with both contemporary dance audiences and curatorial contexts that value strong physicality, conceptual clarity, and accessibility.
Danube Dance Alliance emerges as an initiative of the international dance platform Balkan Dance Project.
Choreography: Igor Kirov
Dancers: Ema Bates and Endi Schrötter
Music: Alva Noto · Ryuichi Sakamoto- Noon
Photo: Nik Jarh
