Victoria Beckham Has Migraine

Marjana Krajač/Sodaberg

which some sequences have in, on the one hand in a dance Victoria Beckham has vocabulary, and on the other hand in everyday vocabulary, so which verbalization is very much different. The work sets migraine on the card of multiplicity of readings so in that way it simultaneously constructs two completely different fields of exposure. ... The production is a performance of a high quality which duration, repetitivity and exhaustion of performers is hypertrophied with measure and reason.” Igor Ružić, Radio 101

“The title, about which I always have to smile, stands excellent for committed and smart, and humorous, exceptionally well performed piece.” Maja Đurinović, Vijenac

“ Let me parallel to scenic works which poetics, locations, audiences and political orientations are very different but what they have in common is an «opera consciousness», or to be more precise, the sensibility of the high artificiality of the voice and the movement, of the sound and the gesture as a "medium" of expression of the inner occupation of the character and the theatralism as a Brechtianic perfomativity or preferring of the strong perfomative interpretation over a. "Junkspace is the sum total of our current the logic of the story, causality of telling, even over the architecture: we have built more than all previous audiences trust to the "unity" of character and the face. It history together, but we hardly register on the is Mozart’s' Don Giovanni premiered at the Croatian same scales. Junkspace is the product of the National Theatre (direction: Olivier Tambosi) and the dance encounter between escalator and air conditioning, performance Victoria Beckham has migraine (choreography conceived in an incubator of sheetrock (all three and direction: Marjana Krajač) premiered at the ZeKaeM missing from the history books). ... It substitutes Theater. It is additionally interesting that both works accumulation for hierarchy, addition for research desire, especially its repetitivity, forcibility, and composition. More and more, more is more. the terror of the same which pornographic mechanic Junkspace is overripe and undernourishing at the captures its constantly unsatisfied and constantly lusting same time, a colossal security blanket that covers consument.” the earth. ... Junkspace is like being condemned to Nataša Govedić, Zarez a perpetual Jacuzzi with millions of your best friends." Marjana Krajač/Sodaberg Choreographer, author and dancer; was educated at the State school for contemporary dance in Zagreb and graduated at the Academy for the perfoming arts -Die Etage- in Berlin. She also studied theology and religion science at Humboldt Universität zu Rem Koolhaas Berlin. duration: 1h and 20 min. She worked with Groupe Dunes in Marseille, France and after the graduation she Concept/author/choreography: Marjana Krajač collaborates and dances for and with numerous choreographers in Berlin and works as a lecturer for choreography and contemporary dance at The Akademie – academy for Dramaturgy: Oliver Frljić acting studies in Berlin. Performed by: Larisa Lipovac, Maja Marjančić, Roberta She received the European scholarship for contemporary dance Danceweb in 2002 and a scholarship for Mobile Academy Berlin in 2004 where she specializes in the field Milevoj, Andreja Široki of opera and contemporary composition with superb opera directors Chen Shi Zheng Performance support: Selma Banich and Jossi Wieler as well as contemporary composer Ulrike Haage. Her choreographic work started very early during her education where she begins to Video support: Rodion explore the boarders and the periphery of the medium. Since 2000 she created among Light design: Miljenko Bengez other works: Unfinished, The Fish, Deflection of Time, Seducing Pablo Escobar, Lady Macbeth series and other choreographic works. Her artistic work connects a strong Graphic design: Dinko Uglešić choreographic signature with a curiosity for a new approach to movement material and concepts of performing. Since 2005 she is especially dedicated to, simplified defined, Produced by Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance the interface of opera and body material in the broad sense. The research started with "Macbeth" of Verdi, continues in 2006 with Puccini’s "Manon Lescaut" within the work Realized with a support of City Office for Culture Zagreb “Victoria Beckham has migraine” and will continue in 2007 with Strauss` "Ariadne auf Realized through the working platform of EkS-Scena Naxos". Since 2005 she lives and works in Zagreb where she collaborates with numerous artist Created with the support of The Adventure of Impulstanz of Zagreb new dance scene and develops a new initiatives concerning contemporary Festival Vienna 2006 theater, dance and performance. She is also a founder and artistic director of Sodaberg.

PRESS: Sodaberg is a dance company based in Zagreb which gathers artists from a different fields of contemporary dance production and further. Sodaberg dedicates its forces to a constant re-evaluation of the actual artistic work action as well as actual thinking “ The seventh Platform of Young Choreographers was process around it as well as re-evaluation of the dedication process itself. In its very name, Sodaberg stands simultaneously for a wide variety of functions; from the dance opened with an interesting and demanding performance, company over organization of authors, to the thinking field, blog, activation platform, choreographically complex work on the issue of arbitrarity brand, opera production office or whatever is needed to fulfill the most present time artistic occupation. It is a Question of Desire that we are driven by, in a constant of artistic expression and the schizoid disharmony between redefinition of our very definition - post contemporary, post political, post esthetical media exposed and the real human bodies with a specific and post activistic we are determent to use every technology as well as technique that accent on the constant hypersexualisation of the women we find is the most intriguing for the producement of the contemporaneity itself. Sodaberg is founded in 2005 by choreographer and dancer Marjana Krajač with the body. ... I would say that this is choreographically and support of choreographers, authors and theoreticians: Nensi Lazić, Selma Banich and perfomatively the most intriguing dance premiere that we Andrej Mirčev. Sound designers Darius Gall and Guido Henneböhl as well as a video artist Anna Safary are also regular support to a creation and research. recently had chance to witness. “ Sodaberg co-operates and works with numerous artists, authors, theoreticians and the Nataša Govedić, Novi list involved ones in the Croatian as well as European contemporary dance scene. The company is working closely with HIPP - Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance (www.danceweekfestival.com) as well as working through the Eks-scena working “ Victoria Beckham has migraine” is seductive construction platform (www.eks-scena.hr), an organization for research in dance and performing of minimalism hidden behind the mixed interpretations arts. Sodaberg Opatička 6, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia / phone: +385 913007878 / [email protected] / www.sodaberg.hr /