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The performance CHANGE draws on the experience of adolescence as a time when everything can shift before we have had the chance to understand what has actually happened. The body, moods, relationships and sense of belonging are constantly in flux, and rather than trying to resolve this instability, the performance embraces it as its central performative principle. Music, movement, text, costume and light continuously shift in their function, rhythm and relationship to one another, while the performer moves through different emotional states and invites the audience into them. CHANGE does not seek a definitive answer to the question of who we are. Instead, it asks how we can live with the fact that the answer is always changing.
The performance is the centrepiece of a broader project by SHOOMA, which uses contemporary art to support the mental health and well-being of young people aged 12–16. The development of the performance was supported by psychologists from Brave Phone (Hrabri telefon), a Croatian child and youth helpline, as well as by a focus group of children and young people from I. Primary School Bjelovar, Croatia.
Choreographer & Director: Irma Unušić
Performer: Vanesa Petrac
Dramaturg: Espi Tomičić
Music: Ivan Marojević and Filip Merčep
Lyrics: Vanesa Petrac
Lighting Design: Andrija Santro
Costume Design: Ana Fucijaš
Tailor: Frane Šoša
Choreographic Collaborator: Una Štalcar-Furač
O(d)gledala / Feedback: Marta Krešić
Producers: Marta Banić and Matea Antunović
Psychologists: Marina Banković and Tonka Ribičić / Brave Phone
Duration: 45 min
Age: 12–16
Design: Dora Bilandžić and NJI3
Photography: Zvonimir Ferina
PR & Communications: Martina Marić and Erna Vidaković
Production: SHOOMA Artistic Organisation
Co-production: Music Biennale Zagreb (Croatian Composers’ Society)
In collaboration with: Bjelovar City Theatre - Cultural and Multimedia Centre Bjelovar; POGON – Zagreb Centre for Independent Culture and Youth; Kliker Festival; Children’s Department of the Petar Preradović Public Library in Bjelovar; Bjelovar Theatre, UPUH (Croatian Dance Artists Association)
Project partners: Brave Phone; I. Primary School in Bjelovar; professionals from the Family Centre of Bjelovar-Bilogora County; Cultural Association of Youth Fobija
Supported by: Kultura Nova Foundation; Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia; City of Bjelovar; City of Zagreb; Bjelovar-Bilogora County
The artistic research was part of the Island Connect II project, led by Domino Association and its partners, and funded by the EU’s Creative Europe programme.
Special thanks: Zagreb Dance Centre
Premieres: 25 October 2026, Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, Zagreb – Kliker Festival; 5 November 2026, Gradska kazališna kuća Bjelovar
