CIRQUE MACABRE (2002)

Performers: Aleksandra Jelić, Maja Mitić Music (composed and played by): Aleksandra Damnjanović, Nebojša Ignjatović, Jugoslav Hadžić Dramaturgy and direction: Dijana Milošević Set-design: Neša Paripović Light-design: Radomir Stamenković Costumes: DAH Teatar Objects crafted by: Nikola Tasić- ARBOS Assistant director: Jelena Dakić Texts: original texts from the testimony of Bertolt Brecht held by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), Bertolt Brecht, Martin Luther King, prayers from different religions, Dijana Milošević

Using the form of an obscure circus, this performance deals with the theme of violence. The characters that perform the "circus acts" are artists/visionaries that marked our times and who perform a dark tango with their prosecutors. Beside them are the anonymous soldiers that march across our planet to the sound of prayers in different languages, without stopping through endless time.

Joining them are the characters from the Balkan Circus in the shape of desperate dancers that cannot stop dancing their dance of passion and blood. Will they arrive to the new age? And have we as a society and individuals entered the new age wondering is it really new or have we remained in the museum of time in which the politicians in their gray shiny suits are replacing the visionaries? And do we also put on gray shiny suits or we walk through the dark through which "stars are best seen"?

CIRQUE - (Fr.) circus: in the Roman times an arena used for chariot races and gladiator games; in the modern times a pastime that usually occurs in a tent with animals and different performers.

MACABRE - (Fr). danse macabre- dance of death