“Welcome to the capitalist ruins, dear tourists!

Bring some sun protection, cause we will sweat in the middle of the arena of a former socialist luxury hotel. Haludovo Palace Hotel and the dance floor have been waiting for you and us all. Let’s come together next to the blue, blue sea to listen to our glory holes accompanied by a feminist music album: 700WET risks juicy sounds to seduce our missing libido in pandemic and capitalist ruins. Let’s stay with the ruins, be wet and weary, silly and horny, angry and depressed. Now and then.

Yours truly,
the self-organized stage creatures​"

On the Croatian island of Krk stands a now dilapidated brutalist hotel whose concrete walls mirror the tumultuous changes that took place in the former Yugoslavia. But Halud's Palace stands out in some ways: it was a lavish investment to the tune of 45 million dollars from the pocket of Bob Guccione, the American founder of the world-famous porn magazine Penthouse. Money tainted by a sick and patriarchy-distorted view of the female body and sexuality.

The production Dance Floor 2022 is a kind of documentary of this place and at the same time the subjective erotic research of three artists (Ana Dubljević, Kasia Kania, Marja Christians), whose main aim is to transform the stereotypical perception of the body and to put it into new contexts, into a feminist "porn landscape". Their work poses many questions while getting this former socialist luxury dancefloor moving again – in a totally new spirit.

The day after the performance, Ana Dubljević will lead the Feminist Pornscapes reading group event as part of our project SHARING COURAGEOUS PRACTICES.

Ana Dubljević, Kasia Kania, Marja Christians met during their “Choreography and Performance” Masters studies at the Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen. In the performance ”Tender Fights 2020”, and later- “DANCE FLOOR 2022”, they continued with their studies of the body from a queer-feminist perspective, which they developed together and in other constellations, e.g. as part of the christians//schwenk collective. With humour and analytical acumen, the artists use the power of performance to queer familiar patterns of perception and customary images of the body, as they seek to draw attention to power structures.

The performance is part of the BAZAAR. The full festival programme can be found HERE.