Škvadra – The Pogo Dolls
Dance is not dead, The Pogo Dolls are here!
23. Queer Zagreb marks the month of May with a performance program dedicated to the theme Criminal Queer. The festival starts from the premise that queer identities have been historically and contemporarily criminalized through laws, culture, institutions, and social norms. It explores how artistic tools build resistance, document vulnerability, and embody survival. The festival program, running from May 22 to 29, 2025, brings together international and local artists, including Maiamar Abrodos and Gonzalo Quintana (Argentina), Nikolina Komljenović (Croatia), Viktor Konstantinović (Serbia), Jeremy Goldstein (UK), Hazem Header (Egypt), Bruno Isaković (Croatia), National Queer Theater (USA), and Karlo Štefanek (Croatia / Netherlands). Intimacy, repression, addiction, resilience, archiving, and memory form the thematic backbone of this year’s program, through which Queer Zagreb continues its mission to combat systemic oppression and the erasure of queer experiences with art that is persistent, tender, and uncompromising in its testimony of existence.
Impressum:
Artist director: Zvonimir Dobrović
Producers: Sofia Hernandez, Maja Pavlinić
Asisstant producer: Klara Jovanov
Marketing: Karlo Štefanek
Technical director: Ivan Pavin
Graphic designer: Bruno Isaković / Design Motion
NEWS
Call for Participants: Infinite Archive #1 Irrefrenable by Gonzalo Quintana
Are you a member of the LGTBIQ+ community interested in sharing your stories and being part of a unique performance? We invite you to participate in the creation of “INFINITE…
Domino is a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit organization based in Zagreb. Its aim is to question traditional norms and work towards the transformation of oppressive norms in transitional society through culture, media, public policies, education, and collaboration with domestic and international organizations.
DOMINO PROGRAMS
Perforations Festival
The Perforations Festival presents innovative approaches to performance, theater and dance and encourages independent authorship on the local scene.
Queer Zagreb Season
Through various artistic fields, the Queer Zagreb season questions the aesthetic and social norms of the transitional society.
Sounded Bodies
Sounded Bodies festival presents performative works of Croatian and regional artists that research possibilities of choreography and performative art forms in regards with the relation between the sound (voice) and movement (body).
Night of Performances
Night of Performances gathers artists who work interdisciplinary on the boundaries of common practices, more often in forms of performance art, installations, site-specific works.
Visual arts
We present several exhibitions / visual arts programs per year. One of the major is “The Traces of Others” project that we are conducting in 2023 and 2024.
QueerMoments
QueerMoments is the longest, continuously running queer film program in continental Europe. Films are shown monthly in Urania movie theater.
DOMINO PROJECTS
ACT: Art, Climate, Transition
ACT: Art, Climate, Transition (ACT) is a European collaborative project that deals with the issue of just transition through art and activism.
Be SpectACTive!
ACT: Art, Climate, Transition (ACT) is a European collaborative project that deals with the issue of just transition through art and activism.
Croatian Performing Arts Network
Croatian Performing Arts Network gathers 11 Croatian organizations whose activities span from the cultural centres of coastal Croatia to continental cities.
Island Connect
Island Connect is a collaborative European project with Domino as a leading partner that gathers 5 cultural organizations and institutions from Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Spain and Croatia
The history of political performance
Domino conducts a continuing research on the history of political performance in Croatia from the 1970s to the present day.
ETNO QUEER
ETHNO QUEER is a broadly defined cultural-research and production project of the Domino association, which brings together organizations and culture experts, as well as organizations from Croatia and its region
Island Connect
Island Connect is a collaborative European project with Domino as a leading partner that gathers 5 cultural organizations and institutions from Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Spain and Croatia
DOMINO TEAM
Domino is a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit organization based in Zagreb. Its aim is to question traditional norms and work towards the transformation of oppressive norms in transitional society through culture, media, public policies, education, and collaboration with domestic and international organizations.
