Jovana Petrovska

“Wording a common skirt”

23.05.2026, 20:00 Uhr

This dance piece coincides with the 105th anniversary of the birth of Blaže Koneski. His standardization of the Macedonian language was a state-sanctioned act that, by its very nature, involved a process of selective forgetting. The sound design reflects this evolution: Koneski’s poetry serves as both the language and the raw recorded material, which the commissioned composer deconstructs and fragments. This sonic deconstruction poses a powerful question to the sanctioned linguistic memory: What had to be forgotten for this consensus to be passed?

Concept, Choreographic Direction, and Performance: Jovana Petrovska

Creation and Performance: Elodie Zermatten, Lea Marie Neumayer and Viola Cantú

Music Composition: Thomas Wansing

Stylist: Elizabeta Hristovska

Light Technician: Nick Jonas Kuhoff

Technical Support: Aleksandar Petrovski

Literary Expert: Prof. Dr. Goce Cvetanovski

Poem: “The word” from Blaže Koneski

Dramaturgical Support and voice: Elizabeta Kocoska

Special thanks to Klaudija Petrovska, Pamela Banchetti and Sergio Monferrer