ZENIT (1992)

Performers: Nenad Colic, Sanja Krsmanovic-Tasic, Valentina Milivojevic, Maja Mitic, Tatjana Pajovic
Scenario and direction: Jadranka Andjelic, Dijana Milosevic
Set design: DAH THEATER
Costumes: Boris Caksiran
The Cross-Coathanger Object: Nesa Paripovic
Music and songs: Nenad Jelic
Texts: Ljubomir Micic, Branko Ve Poljansk, Moni de Buli, Dubravka Knezevic, Vladimir Mayakovski, F.T. Marinetti, Anuska Micic, Antonio Fernandes Lera

"Zenit - the history of an artistic passion" is a story of the destiny of Ljubomir Micic and the avant-garde artists in the first decades of this century that mostly ended their lives in tragic, circumstances. Zenithism is an oath, clear and loud of a new man, of a new age, of creation, of art, of youth. Zenithism means: not to live out of duty. Out to live out of inspiration.

Angels or spirits of the Death visit the aged Micic and take him to their 'dance' which represents his whole life. Through the existence of Ljubomir Micic "Zenith" deals with the fate of avant-garde ideas in ex-Yugoslavia as well as in Europe. The internal title of this performance is - The History of the Passion.

"Zenith of DAH TEATER from Belgrade has been performed on Saturday evening as the second performance of this 20th Theater Sterija Festival. After almost 70 years of the founding of Zenitism this theater, that in its work follows the line of a 'theater laboratory", is dealing with artists like Ve Poljanski and Ljubomir Micic (the banished and prohibited "last citizen" in a very active way opens the question of repression upon artists and freedom of speech and writing."
Borba
(5/30/1994)

"With the articulation of the contemporary theater experiences, and with the totality of theater expressions (movement, color, complexity of the gest-visual language) the theories of the "new" poetics meet and an impressive patchwork of the avant- garde universe living through the form, intellectual confrontations, esthetic provocations, sinhronisation of stiles of the semantic and cultural experiences (need to return the feeling of the world) between the precisely created etudes, a special place kept for a visit to the artists that like paper boats float through the Shagallian blue eternity." (Zoran R. Popovic, "Kosava", August 1994) "Now after almost four years, we cannot talk about DAH THEATER as only a distinguished esthetic, but also as an important social factor. Their total dedication, their conscious refusal not to join in the theater and social mainstream, that, in both cases, usually results as a partly hermetic presence, their determined avoidance of mass-encounter, schematism, attraction and other effects, or to say shortly to all those things in which theater today is soaked in. Their openness and curiosity, in their way of working that is not institutional nor a "group that is momentary gathered around a joint project", but actually an investigating communion whose durance is nevertheless longer than one performance or one tour."
Ksenija Radulovic
(4/19/1994, "NIN")

"...and precisely this performance had to be seen with complete concentration and presence. The energy that shone through the actors of this performance is something truthfully original. The subtitle of the performance "Zenith" is "History of a passion". Passion and true energy have been, evidently reserved for Saturday evening."
Politika
(5/30/1994)