A performance about the artistic collaboration and creative process between an actress and a director, which deals with the theme of missing people. A reflection on the strength and fragility of memory, on the meaning of disappearance and the possibility of transformation. The performance “Shivering of a Rose” deals with the memories kept by the families of the missing, especially women from those families. [2014]
The disappearances of loved ones are tragic events for families left in the dark, and their only comfort is the memories of the victims and the hope that everything will be resolved. The resolution process takes time, during which memories fade along with historical truths that, too, are forgotten and erased. Deep wounds caused by disappearances do not cease to undermine relations between groups and nations, sometimes decades after those disappearances, and prevent society from beginning the healing process. Art, and especially theatrical art, has the ability to record and somehow raise awareness of these efforts through the living word and presence in the performance.
The performance uses authentic testimonies: Samra Alić, Olgica Božanić, Ema Čekić, Cica Janković, Dragica Majstorović, Slavica Marinković, Beška Avdić, Ismeta Dardagan, Fadila Grahić, Hahifa Hasanović, Enisa Hasanović, Mirsada Lupić,
Mevludin Lupić, Šifa Musić, Ajka Selimović, Mevla Selimović, Suvada Selimović and Zarfa Suljić.
Excerpts from the following texts were used: “Circle of Love Versus Death: Testimonies of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo” by Matilda Melibovski; “I Remember Julia: Voices of the Disappeared” by Eric Stener Carlson; “One Uncountable Death” by Nora Strejilevich; “The Art of Telling
the Truth – Narrating About the Authoritarian Regime”. Edited by: Ksenija Bilbija, Jo Ellen Fair, Cynthia E. Milton, Leigh A. Payne; “At the Height of Despair” by Emil Cioran; “Funes, the Memorious” by J. L. Borges; “Nemesis” by Richard Muller; “Wisdom of the Earth”
by Anna Voigt and Neville Drury, and original texts by artists from DAH Theater.
“To say that DAH Teatar’s performance “Shivering of a Rose” is among the best in our theater does not mean much, or, perhaps – it means everything. The first concerns the poor state of our theater, and the second concerns the fact that despite everything (and despite everyone) – “a word is spoken”. (…) And this performance, fully conceived and precise, with a performing level that is a pearl of our theater, does not allow us to stop wondering. (…) This is a performance about bread and herbs, about bone and seed, a performance made by, watched by, and loved by those who will not stop wondering, who know what they do not want precisely because they themselves are one big – YES.” – Vladimir Kolarić, writer and film theorist
For the performance “Tremor of a Rose”, DAH Teatar was nominated for the prestigious “Teatro Nudo di Teresa Pomodoro” award in Milan [Italy].
Concept: Dijana Milošević and Maja Mitić
Starring: Nemanja Ajdačić – The One Who Is and Is Not / Violinist
Dijana Milošević – Director
Maja Mitić – A several-hundred-year-old woman who has already seen everything
Set design: Neša Paripović
Sound: Jugoslav Hadžić
Photography: Una Škandro
Assistant director: Mladen Lukešević
PR and organization: Ivana Milenović Popović and Nataša Novaković
Photography: Una Škandro, Renato Mangolin
DAH Teatar thanks:
Claudia Bernardi, Jaya Hartlein, Marija Muždalo, Louisa Sanfey, Aleksandra Stojanović, Women in Black, Donka Torov, Lidija Mavra, Radosav Majdejvac.
DAH Teatar especially thanks all those who have placed their trust in us and told us their stories.
Realization supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia
