TRY DANCE, 2025

TRY DANCE is a dance-based board game that brings contemporary dance into everyday life and connects generations.

Conceived as a response to the growing intellectualization of childhood and youth — a tendency that overlooks the importance of play and direct physical experience as foundations for healthy development — the game invites us to return dance and play to the center of life. Through movement, we reconnect with our own bodies, with others, and with the tangible world around us. We rediscover communication beyond words — through dance.

The game creates a safe space for emotional expression, easing tension and encouraging self-acceptance, all of which nurture mental and emotional well-being. Shared challenges strengthen bonds of trust and belonging, while the freedom of movement opens pathways to confidence and creativity.

In a time when emotional fragility becomes ever more present, dance emerges as a healing practice, accessible to us all. Through TRY DANCE, we seek to educate, awaken sensitivity, and offer a direct experience of what contemporary dance can be. The program supports the positive and emotional development of participants, inviting them to experience dance as a form of personal expression and inner restoration.

TRY DANCE is an experience that inspires togetherness, creativity, and a sense of well-being.

Set your body free, discover the joy of movement — and Try Dance.

Authors: dance artists Irma Unušić, Marta Krešić, and Antonia Dorbić

Production: SHOOMA and MOLD Collective, 2025

Visual design: Design studio Kuna zlatica

Photography: Delimir Hrestak

TRY DANCE is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia as part of the Audience Development program in 2025, as well as by the City of Bjelovar and Bjelovar-Bilogora County.
The annual program of SHOOMA is supported by the Kultura Nova Foundation.

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