- Created and Performed by
Ana Mrak, Bruno Isaković
- Dramaturgy
Mia Zalukar
- Premired
16.12.2025.
- Light design
Ema Kani
- Production
Udruga Domino, UO Malo Sutra
- Partners
Island Connect, Kazalište KNAP
- Financial support
Grad Zagreb, Ministarstvo kulture i medija, Island Connect
- Duration
55 min
- Video design
Bruno Isaković
- Audio design
Hrvoje Nikšić
- Graphic design
Designed Motion
ONLY UNDER is a performance about forces: invisible, structural, emotional, and physical. Inspired by wave mechanics, the piece explores how movements, both choreographic and social, emerge only under certain conditions. Waves arise because something presses, pulls, or disturbs. Power, too, emerges because something exerts pressure, withdraws, or meets resistance. Bodies respond to changing conditions: compression, flow, interference, and imbalance. Movement emerges in the same way waves do, from what lies beneath. Every visible gesture is shaped by a layer invisible to the eye: an impulse, a constraint, a presence, or an absence.
In ONLY UNDER, hierarchy is not a choice but a phenomenon. Bodies rise and fall within structures that appear inevitable, cyclical, and often invisible. The choreography reflects a system of power that is never stable and always oscillating. The work foregrounds transitional moments, those states in which control wavers and identities shift. These liminal moments, like the instant a wave hovers before it breaks, reveal the fragility of domination and the persistence of influence.
Ultimately, ONLY UNDER asks what conditions are necessary for change. What pressures create movement? How does hidden force shape visible outcomes? And who bears the weight of the forces that enable motion? It is a dance about what lies beneath the surface and about how the invisible becomes inevitable.
BRUNO ISAKOVIĆ is a performer and choreographer living in Zagreb, Croatia. He graduated with a degree in contemporary dance from Amsterdam School of the Arts in 2009. Isaković regularly teaches workshops and dance classes. He has received various scholarships, as well as Jury Award and Best Solo Dance at Solo Dance International Festival in Budapest and Croatian national award 2016 as a best choreographer for ensemble version of Denuded. His solo Denuded (2013), toured around the world and was performed close to 40 times, from New York, Tokyo, London, Sao Paulo to Hobart. This led him to creation of ensemble version of the work. Isaković is the artistic director of Sounded Bodies festival taking place in Zagreb.
ANA MRAK is born in Varaždin in 1979. She was educated at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance and the Tisch School of the Arts (New York). Since 2004, she has been a member of the Studio for Contemporary Dance. She has participated in almost all of the ensemble’s productions and collaborates with many prominent figures in contemporary dance and theatre. As a member of SCD, she was nominated for the Croatian Theatre Award in 2010 for her role in the performance Nastup by Matija Ferlin. She actively teaches contemporary dance techniques at professional institutions in Croatia and abroad, and works as a lecturer (assistant professor, external associate) at the Department of Dance of the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb.
