ZENITH


““Zenit – A History of Rapture” is a story about the fate of Ljubomir Micić and avant-garde artists from the beginning of this century, who mostly ended their lives and work in tragic circumstances. Zenitism is a clear and loud vow to a new man, a new era, creation, art, and youth. Zenitism means: not living duty, but living inspiration. [1994]







Angels or spirits of the dead visit the old Micić and draw him into their dance, which represents his life. Through the life of Ljubomir Micić, the ZENIT performance deals with the fate of avant-garde ideas in the former Yugoslavia and in Europe. The secret title
of the play is “A History of Rapture.”

In Chinese opera, a young actor puts on a beard in full view of the audience and becomes an old man, or takes an umbrella and becomes a geisha. In this performance, the actress becomes Marc Chagall by putting on blue socks, while in the next moment, dancing barefoot, she becomes the dancer Maga Magazinović. Other “angels” who come from these “dark times,” opposing the ruling currents, are: Mayakovsky, Ve Poljanski, Moni de Buli, Marinetti. In the end, these angel-spirits leave to enter someone else’s life story, leaving behind a girl with a ball and an elderly Micić who said NO to all times.




“Performed in several languages, with a careful synopsis, this piece is universal in its reflections and the rich complexity of their performance. One can only admire the perfect discipline of the body and the versatility of techniques they fully master: dance, music, mime, acrobatics and language.”

– The Herald Tribune (04.11.1997)

“This show is a sparkling patchwork of music and song, a scene with a skull from Hamlet, swirling tango and ostentatious puppets, hurried whispers, sudden declamations. The show is mostly translated into English. It is a strange and hypnotic, dignified, mysterious elegy to past times, a defiant game in the face of darkness.”

– Peter Whitebrook (The Scotsman, 1.09.1994.)




Directed and written by: Jadranka Anđelić and Dijana Milošević

Perfromers: Nenad Čolić, Sanja Krsmanović – Tasić, Valentina Milivojević, Maja Mitić, Tatjana Pajović

Set design: DAH Teatar

Costumes: Boris Čaksiran and DAH Teatar

Coat rack cross object: Neša Paripović

Music: Nenad Jelić

Texts: Ljubomir Micić, Branko Ve Poljanski, Moni de Buli, Dubravka Knežević, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Filipo Marinetti, Anuška Micić, Antonio Fernandez Lera

Patron of the performance Miša Ignis