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Dance Art for Young Audiences – Guest Lectures by Irma Unušić for Dance Students

The Department of Dance at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb hosted Irma Unušić as part of the course Resources. In December 2026, she led lectures and practical sessions for second-year dance students on the topic of Dance Art for Young Audiences.

BABEL - The Art of Listening in Theatre for Young Audiences

Our artistic director, Irma Unušić, is a participant in the EU large scale cooperation project BABEL – The Art of Listening in Theatre for Young Audiences. Together with Brigitte Dethier, Irma co-facilitated the final creative BABEL workshop for theatre professionals, held from 6 to 10 November 2025 in Brussels as part of the Export/Import Festival […]

INTERGENERATIONAL ENSEMBLE starts!

What is an Intergenerational Ensemble? It is a multigenerational community brought together by an interest in theatre and artistic creation — a place to explore creative expression through the body, movement, and dance. The Ensemble likes to call itself an ensemble, even though it is still in the making. For now, it represents dance and […]

ASSITEJ International' 21. World Congress & Performing Arts Festival for Children and Young People

We encountered this big teathre event in Havana, Cuba. That were two very intense and overwhelming weeks with huge amount of new experiences, new people, different culture, theatre, experiencing simple lifestyles, broken buses, waitings and loads of dance…but nonetheless the most amazing was hospitality and generosity of people in Cuba, all around! What happened?ASSITEJ International’s […]

An autumnal edition of The Secret Garden in Italy

During the residency supported by Cooperativa Teatrale Prometeo @coopprometeo - Residenze Passo Nord we worked on mediation and workshop around the topics of dance, performance and finding a nurturing body and space for ourselves. We brought The Secret Garden in two classes of the Mittelschule Egger-Lienz in Bozen/Bolzano Bozen/Bolzano and met amazing young people. The […]

BLEND - intergenerational artistic residency at the Mediterranean Dance Center in Svetvinčenat (09.08.-17.08.2023)

BLEND – the intergenerational artistic residency – took place from August 9th to 17th, 2023.It was born out of the personal need of the participating artists to share their dance and creative space with each other and with their children. Starting primarily from the body and movement, through choreographic research and then expanding into other […]

Two awards for Astronauts at The Festival of Ecological Theatre

On our second international tour since the existence of SHOOMA, Astronauts won two awards at the Festival of ecological theatre in Bačka Palanka, Serbia. We performed Astronauts on August 19th 2022. The first award is the most sincere one - the audience award for the best show. The second award is a special award for […]

Presentation and workshop of The Den album (Brlog) at the Kliker festival

We did the first presentation of our "Den music album" which is made for usage in kindergartens, schools and homes to motivate children for creative movement using music and textual motivations from the booklet and all with mental health in mind. It was presented together with the workshop at the Kliker festival on June 18th in the […]

The Secret Garden on the island of Cres

Dance artists Sabrina Fraternali, Anna Javoran and Irma Unušić stayed in Moise Palace on the island of Cres from May 28th until June 10th to further develop their artwork. This artistic residency is supported by Island Connect and the Croatian partner of the project, the association Domino from Zagreb. They worked on the multisensory dance […]

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