The play Alpha Girls examines the influence of popular culture on the dance expression of the play's author, as well as its influence within the sensitive field of representation and performance of female gender identity through movement and caricature. The play asks what are the sources of our experience of perceiving and acquiring information, and how our experience of observation shapes our later expression. How can certain phenomena and expressions be understood? Is it possible and to what extent is it successful the appropriation of language and content that are culturally exotic, inspiring, and maybe distant in terms of identity?
With this project, choreographer Tamara Pjević and choreographer Jakša Filipovac map and synthesize their experiences and the experiences of the other participants in a wide range of using different vocabulary of contemporary dance. The two explore how continuous dance experience shapes their current and future creative expression. In this sense, the performance is also a response to the local dance context. Pjević and Filipovac, together with the dancers, write a dedication to the authors through whose work and influence they were born, as well as witty comments on the very frameworks and working conditions that are an inseparable context of the creation of any art.
Finally, with the play Alpha Girls, the authors want to examine the limits of working in a collective, insisting that all members be allowed to express their authenticity in stage expression, precisely with the aim of highlighting the various background influences that have shaped the performance skills of individuals.
