WHICH PLANET ARE YOU? is a participatory dance performance with elements of a contemporary circus, a strong audio-visual atmosphere using somatic movement, improvisation, suggestive lighting, ambient sounds, and an immersive scenography through which performers and spectators travel. The performance encourages inclusivity and equality among children.

WHICH PLANET ARE YOU? deals with the primary feelings of fear, anger, happiness, sadness, and love that we encounter in life. Guided by emotions through sound, space, and light stimuli and using movement, tactile objects, touch, and imagination – children, parents, and performers go through emotional experiences together in a safe and controlled way. The performance explores how imagination and bodily sensors are articulated through breath and touch as the main drivers of the human body in interaction with the environment and each other. Playing with one’s sensory imagination and movement, spatial landscapes are created and the creativity of each spectator is engaged, who becomes a dancer, an actress, and a performer.

Author: Nikolina Komljenović
Choreography: Nikolina Komljenović
Performers: Filip Sever, Nikolina Komljenović, Dina Marijanović, Paul Bertrand Grandjean
Performance: Filip Sever / Ivana Vojnić Vratarić, Nikolina Komljenović
Lighting designer and manager: Dina Marijanović
Music author: Nenad Kovačić
Music manager: Paul Bertrand Grandjean
Scenography and visuals: Ivana Pipal
Costume design and scenography performance: Selena Gazda

Performance language: non-verbal
Maximum number of children per performance 20

Production: ekscena
Co-production: European project Otočke veze, Generator platform, Kliker festival, Domino, Vrum, Shooma
Financial support: City of Zagreb, City of Bjelovar
Sponsors: BIM Sport, Davorka Čorko Rodeš
In collaboration with the National University of Sesvete, Cultural and Multimedia Center Bjelovar, Močvara Club

Nikolina Komljenović is a professional contemporary dancer and contemporary circus artist with an emphasis on aerial elements, choreographer, educator and producer. In her many years of pedagogical work with adults and children, she has developed a participatory system of communication and respect for the needs of individuals in accordance with the entire group and the content she conveys to the participants. Komljenović has a master’s degree in art history and comparative literature with twenty years of experience in performing arts.

How does your voice affect me? And how does my voice affect you? Are we separated from the “voice” of nature, or are we actually much closer than we think? And where and how do I belong in everything that surrounds me?

These are the questions from which this multisensory interactive show was born,encouraging the audiences to explore the world around them, but also the world inside them and inspire them to let their inner world be shown!

Author: Buga Marija Šimić Milošev
Scenography: Emili Tomaić
Costume design: Tanja Asanović
Costume production: Angela Runje
Co-authors and performers: Danijel Radečić, Doris Karamatić i Kristina Habuš

Mala Scena Theatre is the oldest privately-owned theatre for children and youth in Croatia. We have been successfully operating in Zagreb since 1986, systematically staging productions for young audiences. In line with our strategic plan, we produce plays for babies under 18 months and children between 1.5 and 16 years of age, along with occasional adult programs. We are the only theatre in Croatia working with a strategic plan, and our strategies are excellence, networking, social responsibility and education. The texts for our plays are carefully selected, with special attention to the ones addressing the challenges of growing up and mostly from new, upcoming authors. Our plays are being staged throughout Croatia and Europe, and we had visiting performances on every continent and some of the most prominent stages of the world, from Sydney Opera House to Kennedy Center, Barbican Center and Koenji Theatre in Tokyo.

“Mara and the Bookworms” is a 40-minute musical-theatrical-dance performance intended for preschool and early school-age children. It encourages a love for books and reading in an innovative and creative way. The story takes place in a library that is empty, with lonely books, until the librarian Mara, with the help of her loyal friends — five bookworms — embarks on a magical journey through the library’s colorful shelves. The goal of her adventure is to find the key that opens the door to children’s imagination and to inspire the child performers (8 in total) to fall in love with the written word, making the library their second home.
By combining dance, singing, music, spoken word, and stage movement, the performance presents a dynamic and educational story that brings well-known literary titles and musical pieces to life, while also introducing new ideas that promote creative expression. At the heart of the story is a message about the importance of imagination and knowledge, as well as the library as a space of safety, learning, and inspiration.

“Mara and the Bookworms” gives children the opportunity to experience the magic of books through art, to feel how books can enrich their world, and to recognize the importance of reading and literature in their development. The performance is designed as an interactive educational tool that stimulates imagination, creativity, and emotional intelligence in children. Through dynamic musical numbers, dance choreographies, and narrative elements, children are encouraged to think critically and reflect on their own reading habits.

This performance portrays books as an endless source of adventure and knowledge, and the library as a place of exploration and imaginative journeys.

Choreography: Martina Laginja i Larisa Štefančić
Performers: Nina Radović, Marko Dobrecović, Petra Šupuković, Tina Peulić, Eni Sergo, Nika Garac, Sasha Tijan, Marta Kovačić, Tia Toić, Eva Martinović, Lenka Kolić, Mia Vukasović Pavičić, Emili Vrević i Lorena Finka
Text: Andrea Šukljan
Costumes: Jadranka Šegota

Dance Association Ri DANCE – Rijeka organizes its work through music, drama, and dance workshops adapted for children and youth. For 22 years, we have been operating within the educational institution Dom mladih (Youth Centre), founded by the City of Rijeka, which is dedicated to organizing leisure activities for children and young people. Each year, we bring together around eighty children and youth who are passionate about dance.

The main goal of the Association is to encourage, promote, develop, and enhance cultural and artistic values among children and youth, with a special focus on the development and promotion of dance.We present our work through numerous performances, individual choreographies at various events in the City of Rijeka and the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, charity events, as well as through independent dance projects, performances, and stage productions. So far, we have successfully realized: 20 dance productions, 8 dance performances, 8 full-length dance shows, a children’s and youth musical titled “A New Day”.
We are proud to have participated in the choreographic and dance component of the musical “The Legend of Ružica Grad”, which premiered at the Zagreb Komedija Theatre. For many years, the Association was involved in the project “Summer at the Trsat Castle”, playing an essential role in its opening, while independently producing the event “Gradina Dance Art” in Rijeka.With our full-length performances, we have participated in the Vinodol Summer Evenings in Drivenik, as well as the Kastav Cultural Summer. We are regular participants in the Dance Ensemble Gathering organized by the Croatian Cultural Council and have had the honor of showcasing our work at Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall and the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. We also participated in the international dance festival “Tanec, tanec” in the Czech Republic and were selected to represent the Croatian dance scene at the “Živa” Youth Creativity Festival in Ljubljana and the Children’s Art Festival in Sarajevo.

Our work has been recognized and awarded with the Cultural Creativity Award of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County for the years 2015, 2016, and 2024. We were also featured in the documentary program “They Do It Out of Love”, dedicated to cultural and artistic amateurism in Croatia.

Despite all these achievements, what we are most proud of—and what we consider the true treasure of our Association—are our dancers. They grow up with us, dance, connect, explore movement, and enjoy performing at various dance festivals, where they can share their creativity and meet other ensembles.

Las Calaveras is a circus fireshow where mystery, magic, and macabre collide. Flames grow from soft flickers to a blazing spectacle. The performance weaves a tale of creation, destruction and rebirth – reminding us of fire’s dual nature. As sparks fly and energy builds, the flames tell a story: life is fleeting, yet ever-transforming.

Authors & performers: Diana Fureš, Tatjana Vuletić, Aleksandar Đikić, Matija Vuletić

Loop Cirkus are Diana Fureš and Aleksandar Đikić – a duo of circus artists who are passionate about sharing the art of circus with the world and pushing the boundaries of creativity and innovation. They started creating and working together in 2016., and have since produced a large number of shows that they actively perform in Croatia and abroad. Their goals are to promote circus art through creative and production activities, leading workshops, organizing events and collaborating on various projects with other artistic associations.

Cirkultura association is a voluntary and non-partisan organization. It is part of the National Circus Platform and DUSC (the Society of Contemporary Circus Artists). It brings together people who, through their work, want to participate in the organization of active social life in the Republic of Croatia and thus promote circus art. The goal of the association is to promote, study, practice and improve circus skills, produce and perform plays and performances. The association has been operating since 2008.