The World Tethers is a contemporary dance performance created by Anamaria Bagarić in collaboration with artists from various genres. Together with sound artist Ida Hiršenfelder, they have created a performance that embodies the oversaturation of information constantly seeping into the body. Through the prism of the body, this is expressed as an attempt at a physical representation of an inner monologue, while the music extracts its sounds from deep within, “from beneath the shoulder blades.”
Movement and thought follow the philosophy of butoh dance, highlighting the back as the primary signifier of the crossing between two worlds: the inner and the outer. Since the world moves at a pace the individual cannot follow, a counter-pole is needed—where the environment, even briefly, aligns with their own rhythm. The body becomes this counter-pole, searching within for authenticity and primality, which it cannot reach through thought alone. With every thought deconstructed to its foundations, the body grapples with where to store it, what to do with it, or even if it is its own to think—thus, telling a story of powerlessness.
Throughout her creative process, Bagarić explored questions of solitude and loneliness, self-inquiry, bodily (in)capability, fluid empathy and transient relationships, exploitation in the name of belonging, conditions for existence, partial perception of reality, the truth of current will, collective emotional withdrawal, the exchange of primality for primitiveness, the idealization of naturalness and the natural state, questions of sexual identity, and finally, the privilege she lives while the world falls apart. A world that, through corporeality, is captured in the tissue of the body, words, and music.
Public performances with beepblip
26–28 September 2026, Tunnel, Puppet Festival, Ljubljana Puppet Theatre (SI)
31 October 2025, Festival Izis, Bastion, Koper (SI)
17 October 2025, CIKLON series, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana () with Nina Dragičević
21 & 22 May, 2025, Tunnel, Puppet Festival, Ljubljana Puppet Theatre (SI)
21 April 2025, Osmo/za (open laboratory), Ljubljana (SI) with Pavla Zabret
13 December 2024, Butoh Double Bill: Anamaria Bagarić and Klemen Kovačič, Old City Power Plant, Bunker, Ljubljana (SI)
22 September 2024, Zorica, Ljubljana (SI)
25 September 2024, KČ Barutana, Kamnik (SI) with Pavla Zabret
Anamaria Bagarić is a dancer and choreographer who was introduced to the world of dance art with Kjara’s Dance Project collective, where she collaborated as a young dancer. In Egypt, she presented her first solo, 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳(𝘴), and collaborated with the Cairo Opera House and Cairo Contemporary Dance Centre. In 2019, she graduated from the Academy of Dance – Contemporary Dance Department, with the 𝘗𝘙𝘐𝘡𝘔𝘈 performance. She regularly collaborates with the Fourklor Physical Theatre collective and on projects with renowned Slovenian choreographers and directors. As part of her master’s studies at AGRFT, under the mentorship of Tanja Zgonc, she created the original performance 𝘒𝘢в𝘢, č𝘳𝘯𝘢 (2022), which partly serves as a creative starting point for the performance 𝘗𝘳ev𝘦č 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘦…
Foto: Nada Žgank, 2025
Choreography, dance: Anamaria Bagarić
Music: Ida Hiršenfelder
Poetry: Pavla Zabret, Nina Dragičević
Movement consulting: Tanja Zgonc
Choreographic adviser: Peter Frankl
Original title: Eva Kokalj
Set design: Stela Primc
Directing consulting: Peter Frankl
Lighting design: Gregor Kuhar
Photography: Blaž Plut, Nada Žgank
Video: Inan du Swami
Sound engineer: Luka Bernetič
Public relations: Ajda Koloini
Co-production: NEST Institute, VITKAR
Partners: Zavod Delak, Nataraja Studio
Special thanks: Urška Centa (NEST), Borut Bučinel, Andreja Kopač, Tina Habun