directing and dramaturgy Dijana Milošević
performers Sanja Krsmanović Tasić and Maja Paripović
set design Vujović Neša
music Jugoslav Hadžić
violin and music for violin Nemanja Ajdačić
Dah Theatre presents an outstanding musical and theatrical play, spiced with brilliant acting and intense choreographies. Supported by the music, the performance leaves a profound impression of scenic presence, amplified by the closeness and direct contact with the audience.
Igor Burić
Listening to the accounts of women from Bosnia, Serbia or Kosovo who have lost their loved ones, we realized that their lives are inhabited with a constant presence. The presence of absence; the presence of the absent ones.
History tells us that the only way of healing a society after atrocities have taken place, is to go through the painful process of truth telling. This is still on-going within our region. Our performance is a contribution to that effort.
By creating such performance, our intention is to help families, that had gone through such hard experiences, to speak publicly and through this, continue with their lives.
DAH THEATRE
Dah theatre is an independent group from Belgrade, among the most internationally recognized, with over 22 years of activity. Their work tackles relevant political and social issues, maintaining and extremely poetic stile and an engaging performing quality, which fuses theatre, music and dance.
In the contemporary world, destruction and violence can only be opposed by the creation of sense.
motto of DAH Theatre
"Story is the way we remember and form our judgments – and perhaps, because they touch the heart – stories point the way towards forgiveness and understanding. By means of story, we can experience the terrible and noble dimensions of what happened, we can put names to faces, meaning to places and events, gain a sense of the humanity of the victims and the victimizers, relive the events of history in their fearsome detail."
from "The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule"
edited by Ksenija Bilbija, Jo Ellen Fair, Cynthia E. Milton, Leigh A. Payne
