Screenagers Vol. 2

Dance & performance
+12
Performance in English
Part of the Iridescent Festival

45 min.

28.11.2025

Friday

19:30

CNDB – Stere Popescu hall (Bd. Mărășești 80)

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Screenagers Vol. 2 (Festivalul Iridescent – CNDB)

28 noiembrie 2025 Ora: 19:30

CNDB - Sala Stere Popescu

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SCREENAGERS Vol.2 takes the form of a reflexive DIY musical: in a firsthand, first-person approach to songwriting, the performer presents us with an intimate collection of songs about obscure emotions that she can feel but cannot find a word for in her everyday life. Her mission is to capture through songs the aches, demons, vibes, joys and urges that roam the wilderness of her psychological interior – an interior that strangely resembles our online media landscape, with which the spectators can interact via their smartphones.

Rooted in the fact that songs have traditionally served as repositories of common experience, as a way to bridge generational gaps, SCREENAGERS Vol.2 proposes a collection of highly idiosyncratic DIY music for the digital age: the world where everything collapses into everything else in a chaotic deluge which is part and parcel with online life, asking what has that done to our psyche and our imagination, that we can take it all in and keep scrolling.

Authors, concept, direction and text: Giuseppe Chico & Barbara Matijević
Performer: Barbara Matijević
Music: Nenad Kovačić
Animation: Martina Livović & Giuseppe Chico
Video: Giuseppe Chico
Concept and development of digital application: Pierre-Erick Lefebvre & Giuseppe Chico
Programming: Dubravka Špoljarić
Technical direction and sound: Stéphane Leclercq
Light design: Marino Frankola
Light technician: Andrija Santro

Production and distribution: Silvija Stipanov
Administration: Lucas Pascaud

Production: Premier Stratagème (FR) & Omnibus (HR)
Coproduction: Théâtre de Choisy-le-Roi, scène conventionnée art et création pour la diversité linguistique
Partners: Ganz New Culture of Change, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb Dance Centre, KNAP Centre – KNAP Theatre Centar
With the support of Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, City of Zagreb and i-Portunus Houses.
Premier Stratagème is supported by the DRAC Ile-de-France.

Biographies

Barbara Matijević studied languages and literature at The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in parallel with dance and acting in Croatia and USA. As a dancer and actress she has worked with a number of choreographers and theatre directors in France, Croatia, Slovenia and Belgium (Boris Charmatz, Joris Lacoste, Bojan Jablanovac).
In her work she explores the impact of digital culture on storytelling through the forms of auto-fictional performances, lecture performances, radio plays, group choreographies, photo exhibitions and installations. Her award-winning work has been presented in 40 countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America, in theatre and dance venues, film festivals, art galleries and museums, such as Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao), Venice Biennale, Esplanade (Singapore), Taichung National Theater (Taiwan), Red Brick Museum (Beijing), Athens Biennale, Festival d’Avignon, New Vision Arts Festival (Hong Kong), Musée de Jeu de Paume (Paris), Panorama Festival (Rio de Janeiro). She has taught at Osijek Art Academy, Zagreb Dance Academy, Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts and Lasalle College in Singapore. In 2022 she created EXCES, a solo commissioned by the Lyon Opera.

Giuseppe Chico was born in Bari (Italy) in 1974. He was introduced to theatre as a child, first by watching operettas and then by taking classes at the theatre Abeliano Tina Tempesta and Antonella Porfido in Bari. After several years of professional basketball playing, he pursued his theatre practice with Robert McNeer at Kismet theatre.
In 2000, he moved to Paris where he worked as an actor, before founding his own company Premier Stratagème together with Barbara Matijević. Since then, he has written and directed eight award-winning performances that have toured in 40 countries around the world, in theatre and dance venues, film festivals, art galleries and museums, such as Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao), Venice Biennale, Esplanade (Singapore), Taichung National Theater (Taiwan), Red Brick Museum (Beijing), Athens Biennale, Festival d’Avignon, New Vision Arts Festival (Hong Kong), Musée de Jeu de Paume (Paris), Panorama Festival (Rio de Janeiro), etc.
His interest lies in creating new forms of storytelling by combining live performance with new technologies and emerging art forms. Always in tune with the latest technological developments, his resolutely interdisciplinary approach has led him to expand his skills so as to include interactive storytelling, custom electronic device design, interface design and 3D animation. As a creative technologist within the performing arts field he firmly believes that where technology leads, art follows, not the other way around.

Performance presented within the Moving Balkans Program, co-funded by Creative Europe.

*The views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the funding authority can be held responsible for them.

Moving Balkans partners
Albania Dance Meeting (AL), Art Link Foundation (BG), Contemporary Dance Association Slovenia (SI), Croatian Cultural Center Rijeka (HR), Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance (HR), DAN.C.CE UNITIVA (GR), EN–KNAP Productions (SI), Interart Culture Center (MK), Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture (SI), The National Center for Dance Bucharest (RO), Students’ Cultural Center Novi Sad (RS).