Folk - Dunja Jocić

Dans & ballet

No Dutch Required

Eight dancers take the audience into a physical and immersive experience in which group behavior each time unfolds according to a different logic. We are drawn into increasingly strange rituals, and our ideas about what we see and feel are continually turned upside down. The performance makes you feel how confrontational, seductive and frightening collective forces can be.

Jocić draws inspiration from the rich folk traditions of the former Yugoslavia and from the turbulent 1990s, when ideological shifts profoundly changed daily life and personal identity. Outside this context, Jocić reconsiders her own roots and draws parallels with today's world.

In Folk Jocić uses the raw energy of Balkan music and dance to create new rituals: at the intersection of tradition, trance and transformation, with echoes of social upheavals.