Things That Burn Easily (Balkan Showcase) – December 11-14

ABOUT

Things That Burn Easily narrates a story of about family living on a modest piece of land affected by a catastrophe. Some of them believe that they have been wronged by irreparable injustice and that a system that will compensate for some of the consequences of it should exist. Others are skeptical and have modeled for themselves a picture of the world in which every other individual is a potential threat, and the only reliable certainty comes from social and societal isolation, and autonomous construction of their own systems of survival and belief. When a big new natural disaster appears  on the horizon, the tragedy of it will escalate into an unbearable misunderstanding of these two principles.

CREDITS

WRITTEN BY: Vedrana Klepica
DIRECTED BY: Vedrana Klepica
STARRING: Hrvojka Begović, Lea Jevtić, Vladimir Aleksić
SET DESIGN AND COSTUMES: Petra Pavičić
CHOREOGRAPHY: Magdalena Reiter
ORIGINAL MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN: Hrvoje Nikšić
LIGHT DESIGN AND VIDEO: Luka Matić
PRODUCTION AND TOUR COORDINATOR: Silvija Stipanov
STAGE MANAGER AND ASISTANT DIRECTOR: Srđana Vrsalović 
PHOTOGRAPHY: Jelena Janković
VISUAL DESIGN: Sven Sorić
TRANSLATION: Marija Andrijašević

BIOS

Ganz nova kultura promjene is an art organization that works at the intersection of performing arts, educational initiatives, interdisciplinary artistic practices, and environmental art. Founded in 2019 in Zagreb, it builds on the legacy of Culture of Change (2004–2018), a pioneering program of Student Centre Zagreb initiated by theatre director Nataša Rajković which has received over 70 national and international awards, as well as on Ganz New Festival – International Festival of Developmental Theatre (2011–2020), which nurtured new artistic languages, connected local and international contexts, and opened space for social transformation through art. As a collective of artists and curators, today Ganz nova nurtures hybrid practices at the intersection of theatre, dance, visual arts, music, and community art, addressing topics such as climate change, deforestation, gender and social inequality, and precarity in the arts. By creating spaces for artistic innovation and collaborative learning, Ganz nova kultura promjene nurtures a culture of change missing from the national and regional context.