Never Again

After the authorial project Never Alone, Matea Bilosnić presents a new work from the Never series - a birthday party or a funeral, a new encounter or a farewell, Never Again is Bilosnić's dance fantasy. Created in collaboration with the Zagreb Dance Company, it is conceived as a fantasy about the ultimate ending - personal, metaphorical, physical, collective, or professional. Questions orbiting around impermanence, finality, and transience have sparked the need for deeper reflections on artistic expression, marking the first time the author feels compelled to create a series of works.

No matter which ending we choose, we ask ourselves: how do we cope with that thought? What burdens does it lift, and what new ones does it impose?
How do we work if we know it is the last time we are working?
How do we perform if it is the last time we are performing?
How do we even imagine the end—of movement, a scene, or a stage of life?

A meditation on finality is activated in the very essence of the dance medium and its transitory and intangible nature. Dance entropy here serves as both a measure of disorder and a condition for survival. Any movement of a system requires an investment of energy, something after which the world can never remain the same. The uncompromising articulation of dance materials through collective actions, togetherness, and physical touch draws our attention to the present moment. Yet, as that moment manifests through movement, it simultaneously disappears. It finds its end. The ephemeral nature of dance in Never Again does not confine us; instead, it inspires us to imagine the possibilities of new beginnings, continuations, or shared pasts.