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Opera Rosa nominated for the YAMawards 2026!

Opera Rosa, produced by SHOOMA, and co-produced by the Music Biennale Zagreb (Croatian Composers’ Society) and the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, has been nominated for the prestigious YAMawards 2026, which recognise outstanding music productions for children and young audiences worldwide. This year’s selection is particularly strong: from more than 70 submissions from over 17 […]

Two Awards for NINABU at the International Festival of Ecological Theatre

At the 32nd Festival of Ecological Theatre for Children and Young People in Bačka Palanka, Serbia, NINABU received two awards: the Audience Award for Best Performance and the Special Award of the Professional Jury for Overall Atmosphere. The Festival of Ecological Theatre (FEP) is one of the region’s longest-running and most significant festivals dedicated to […]

CHANGE is on its way – a new performance for young audiences

The one that never comes twice in the same way. One and only. Unpredictable. – CHANGE! The new performance explores adolescence and is intended for children and young people aged 12 to 16. Taking a path beyond conventional approaches, we explore the questions and challenges of adolescence with all our senses wide open, viewing change […]

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 […]

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