Boris Čakširan, ERGStatus Dance Theatre: When Fairytales fall silent (2016)

The project is dedicated to researching the specifics of the influence of fairy tales on the processes of growing up, as well as the formation of consciousness and behavior in adults. This phenomenon is also explored through the impact on society and the social frameworks in which we live, as well as the special impact on the life and acceptance of the diversity of persons with disabilities and other marginalized groups, the experience of being different and the acceptance of the concept of a hierarchical society and system, and finally the world in which we live. The research is divided into several units and topics, such as: fairy tales and childhood (formation of the image of the world), the role of fairy tales in defining evil (defining evil and abuse), encountering fairy tales in the lives of adults (e.g. the American dream and the media), when fairy tales fall silent - real life fairy tales (cruelty in real life), the consequences of fairy tales (influences on mechanisms and systems in real life). Participants in the project and workshops are members of ERGstatus and young participants in the future performance, who will work in groups to define different concepts and forms, as basic material for the future performance. These materials will be defined in the form of installation or short forms of different performative practices, which in this final research process will be presented at Bitef Polyphony in the form of an open dramatic form with a workshop for the audience and in the form of a fragmentary performance.