Residencies

• 01.09 > 13.09.2025
• 14.07 > 18.07.2025

Sanja Mitrović pla­ces the body at the heart of her prac­ti­ce – as a ves­sel of memo­ry, a car­ri­er of sto­ries, and a brid­ge bet­ween the per­so­nal and the poli­ti­cal. Through lan­gu­a­ge, move­ment and phy­si­cal pre­sen­ce, she exa­mi­nes how indi­vi­du­al expe­rien­ce can reso­na­te within broa­der cul­tu­ral and soci­al rea­li­ties. Her artis­tic research pro­ject Body as Document inves­ti­ga­tes the body as both wit­ness and living archi­ve, ope­ning paths towards con­nec­ti­on, reflec­ti­on, resis­tan­ce, and rene­wal. A par­ti­cu­lar focus is pla­ced on butoh dan­ce as a method for addres­sing soci­o­po­li­ti­cal the­mes in the­a­tre. With its focus on cor­po­re­a­li­ty, memo­ry and trans­for­ma­ti­on, butoh offers a set of tools through which lived his­to­ries and col­lec­ti­ve strug­gles can be brought to the sta­ge. The research is groun­ded in the pre­mi­se that phy­si­cal prac­ti­ce itself has the poten­ti­al to gene­ra­te new spa­ces of truth, empa­thy and ima­gi­na­ti­on within the the­a­tre-making pro­cess. By enga­ging embo­died memo­ry, per­for­man­ce can more pro­found­ly evo­ke both per­so­nal and col­lec­ti­ve trau­ma, par­ti­cu­lar­ly in rela­ti­on to migra­ti­on and dis­pla­ce­ment. The com­bi­na­ti­on of butoh’s vis­ce­ral phy­si­ca­li­ty and emo­ti­o­nal inten­si­ty with the ver­bal and nar­ra­ti­ve dimen­si­ons of the­a­tre opens pos­si­bi­li­ties for new forms of per­for­ma­ti­ve expres­si­on and modes of thinking.