Beyond the edge is an intense and suggestive solo dance performance that explores seductive and self-destructive patterns of behavior within drug-infused gay nightlife. The performer navigates a tense dynamic between the euphoric escape from reality that drugs make possible and the body’s desperate need to recover from a continuous cycle of overdoing it.
Through deeply personal choreography, this solo depicts the inner struggle with addiction – not only to drugs, but also to the psychological liberation and separation from everyday reality that they enable. The performance exposes the paradox of consciously indulging in harmful behaviors for the thrill and fleeting freedom they provide, despite the inevitable price paid by the body and mind. Beyond the Edge is an intimate examination of addiction, desire and vulnerability, and of being trapped in a captivating yet dangerous cycle of pleasure and consequence.
Production: UO Malo sutra, Domino
[BIO]
BRUNO ISAKOVIĆ is a dance artist and choreographer who lives and works in Zagreb. He graduated in contemporary dance from the Amsterdam School of the Arts in 2009. year. Since 2011. until 2015 Since 2011 he has been a member of the Contemporary Dance Studio in Zagreb. She collaborates with numerous choreographers and theatre authors (Francesco Scavetta, Ivana Muller, Irma Omerzo, Ana Vnučec, Jan Martens, Kainkolektiv, Silvija Marchig, Pavle Heidler, Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld, Mila Pavičević, Ana-Maria Bogdanović, Katarina Pejović, Mia Zalukar) and regularly holds dance workshops and courses (Bilgi University of Performing Arts – Istanbul, Dance Department at the Academy of Dramatic Arts – Zagreb, TSEKH Summer School – Moscow). He won the jury award for best solo performance at the Solo Dance International Festival in Budapest and the industry award for best choreographer (“Nečaštive”, 2016). With his solo performance Denuded (2013), he has performed all over the world, from New York, Brazil, Tokyo, London, Sao Paulo to Hobart. Isaković is the artistic director of the Sounded Bodies performing arts festival in Zagreb.
