Premiere of Mica, a new choreography by Astrid Boons
Studio za suvremeni ples presents the premiere of Mica /ˈmʌɪkə/, a new choreography by Astrid Boons, on December 22 and 23 at the Zagreb Youth Theatre (Zagrebačko kazalište mladih).
The piece emerges from a landscape of pressure—where traces of life settle into eroded materials and transformation becomes a mode of survival. Inspired by the metamorphic mineral mica, composed of countless flexible layers, Boons explores through movement the charged spaces of contemporary society: connection and isolation, belonging and separateness, resilience and vulnerability.
Mica imagines bodies that, like minerals, accumulate and refract histories. Each layer of reflection, each gesture, reveals the pressures that shape both individuals and communities. In a time of social and ecological instability, the work asks what kinds of futures might arise if we resist the urge to push these pressures aside and instead listen to them—allowing the body to discover new forms of adaptation rather than withdraw from itself and others. Here, the future is not a distant horizon but a pulse within the layered fabric of time, a space where memory remains alive and opens pathways toward new modes of survival.
