Concept and Direction
Moreno Solinas, Igor Urzelai Hernando
Choreography
Igor x Moreno in collaboration with the performers
Performers
Dora Brkarić, Lara Kapeloto, Iva Katarinčić, Silvija Musić, Linda Tarnovski
Music
Aseret
Lighting Design
Anton Modrušan
Assistant costume and set designer
Ana Paulić
Make Up
Marija Bingula
Rehearsal Directors
Margherita Elliot, Petra Valentić
Photographer
Andi Bančić, Jelena Janković
Graphic Design
Puder (Ana Rako, Goran Raukar)
Petricore celebrates the power of coming together and the complexity of coexistence.
Five performers move as one. Gestures that appear simple reveal themselves as acts of endurance, reminders of the body’s limits and possibilities. The performers dissolve into a collective image where the borders of individuality soften. Their movements call forth both the comfort and the unease of belonging: the pull of conformity, the joy of union, the friction of difference. What surfaces is a paradox — a togetherness that never erases uniqueness, and a uniqueness that only becomes visible through the collective.
Petricore calls us to recognise ourselves in others. Like petrichor — the scent of rain on parched earth — the work evokes the renewal that arises when bodies come together, when humanity rediscovers itself through empathy.
Artistic direction of ZPA company: Petra Glad Mažar, Petra Valentić
Public relations: Sara Ivanović
Production: Zagreb Dance Company
Partners: S’ALA, Zagreb Dance Center, Mediterranean Dance Center
S’ALA Production team: Davide Pisano, Anna Paola Della Chiesa
ZPC Production team: Alexandra Madsen, Josipa Bubaš, Jure Matulić
Financially supported by: City of Zagreb, Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, Foundation Kultura nova
Thanks to: Anika Cetina, Katarina Barešić, Valentina Miloš, Vilim Poljanec, Luciana Fracassi, Letizia Valzania, Amedeo Inglese, Saioa Urzelai Hernando, Tonito Solinas, Francesco Perini
“this formally refined and emotionally powerful performance—charged with a strong energetic tension—brings to the stage not only exceptional performative qualities, owed to the remarkable ensemble, but also an equally vivid, articulated thought.”
– Jasmina Fučkan, PLESNA SCENA
“It’s easy to dismiss Petricore as ‘nice mainstream theatre’ – and it is nice. Yet there’s something subversive in a performance that quietly places empathy above ego, connection above competition”
– Jelena Mihelčić, SPRINGBACK MAGAZINE