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SEAGULLS FLY EARLY

Premiere: September 8, 2025, Location-based walking tour
- Premiere route: Tivoli Castle – Jakopič Promenade – Cankarjeva Street – Čopova Street – Prešeren Square, Ljubljana

Authors and performers: Bojana Robinson and Gyula Cserepes
Original music: Januš Aleš Luznar
Costumes: Timotej Rošc
Dramaturgy: Maša Radi Buh
Photo documentation: Nada Žgank
Video documentation : Gaja Madžarevič
Graphic designer: Blanka Csasznyi and Dénes Csasznyi
Designer and space consultant: Bor Pungerčič
Producer and coordinator: Mojca Prešern Levstek
Consultant: Jasmina Založnik
Production: Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija
Coproduction: Hrvatski kulturni dom na Sušku

Supported by: Culture Moves Europe, Goethe Institut, Hupa Brajdič, Ministry for Culture Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana and Workshop Foundation

Special thanks to: Dragana Alfirević, CoFestival, Diana Csasznyi, Zoltán Cserepes, Zeynep Demir, Aleksa Denčić, Ivona Dunoski Mitev, Thiago Granato, Gordana Kvajo, Edvin Liverić, Milica Matade Mafrici, Rindra Rasoaveloson, Matt Robinson, Zdenka Šibalin Klepac and Rok Vevar

This work was created with the financial support of the European Union. The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the official position of the
European Union.
Home is a place that reminds us of the warmth of our mother’s embrace. A safe space where we feel protected. Home is a sense of groundedness. It is a feeling we try to establish each time we migrate.

In this durational performance, author-performers Bojana Robinson (SRB/SLO) and Gyula Cserepes (SRB/HU), explore cultural identity through cross-border migration. They were born and raised in former Yugoslavia, before moving to other European countries. Even though Bojana lives in Slovenia and Gyula is based in France, they both recognise how they share the same roots. Their curiosity arises from this mutual identity of starting their lives as Yugoslavs.

The duo explores questions such as: what are the customs and traditions that shape our identity? What happens to them when we settle in a new environment? How do the new experiences shape our sense of identity further? How could we actually talk about identity?

Seagulls Fly Early is based on movement and anthropological research. The movement material is derived from a simple triola step. Through the performance, the two performers constantly transform this motif. Their walking choreography is a conversion of folk dances from the Carpathian and Balkan regions. Using these motifs, Bojana and Gyula create a performance that migrates itself: it is a constantly emerging happening of becoming.

The anthropological research is based on interviews with various ethnic minorities.Seagulls Fly Early features the personal stories of both performers along with stories they collected during the creation. They continue this research each time they perform in a new place. Using this method the performance can always connect to the local environment, yet migrate over borders.

Seagulls Fly Early invites audiences to join the journey. Bojana and Gyula want to hold a space where the audience could reflect on their own culture and identity. Furthermore, the performance wants to explore the challenge of putting down roots over and over again. Seagulls Fly Early is a dance of constant transition of ever-changing identities. A dance of grounding in the search of a personal cultural history. 
About authors:
Bojana Robinson is a dancer and choreographer, a graduate of the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) and of the Erasmus program Dance as integrated in society and humanity (SEAD and SNDO). As a dancer, she has performed in works (selected) by Boris Čakširan, Rebecca Murgi, Vita Osojnik, Boštjan Antončič, Kaja Lorenci, Mateja Bučar, Snježana Premuš, and Andreja R. Podrzavnik. As a choreographer, she has collaborated in theater productions directed by (selected) Anđelka Nikolić, Ivana Đilas, Selma Spahić, Snežana Trišić, Juš Zidar, and Maša Pelko. She created contemporary choreography for the Kolo Ensemble in Belgrade and movement direction for the feature film No One’s Child by Vuk Ršumović. Her co-authored performance Oh how very ordinary (with Katja Legin) toured at the Mladi levi Festival 2022, Krušče Festival 2022, Desire Central Station Festival 2022, and Gibanica 2023. The performance Giraffes Can’t Dance, created with Katja Preša, is part of Vodnik’s Homestead program and appeared at the Bobri 2023 Festival. Her authorial piece Mašina premiered at Cankarjev dom in October and was later presented at the Kondenz Festival in Belgrade.Gyula Cserepes was born in Yugoslavia, grew up in a Hungarian-speaking family, and began dancing at the age of 8. He studied traditional dances at the Fót Folk Art Vocational School and contemporary dance at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy. He was first a member of the Central-Europe Dance Theatre and later joined the En-Knap Group in Ljubljana. In recent years, he has performed with the Swiss companies Cie József Trefeli and Cie Philippe Saire in many countries around the world – from Brazil to Iran, Australia to South Korea, Mozambique to Mexico. His own works range from site-specific to interactive dance performances. At the core of his work is rhythm as a universal language: by combining his folk and contemporary dance knowledge, he creates innovative works that explore the essence of dance and its meaning in life.