Through the performance “Don’t Carry the World Upon Your Shoulders”, we continue to explore the practice of translation, this time focusing on the problem of overthinking.
Starting with translating the very term and searching for an appropriate equivalent in the Croatian language, we proceed to seek a translation for the concept (and state) of movement alternately falling into and avoiding the trap of overthinking that follows us throughout the process.
Although our research begins with translating the most famous fictional overthinker, Hamlet (thus continuing the translations of Shakespeare begun in the performance il sonetto), we gradually move away from him in order to delve into our own overthinking, both personal and professional and its elasticity between two extremes: paralysis and superpower.
By choosing the format of a performative lecture, we create space for a (popular) scientific approach to the term and state of overthinking, but also a space for self-reflection; a space to poetically explore overthinking through movement.
Credits:
Choreography and performance: Martina Tomić
Dramaturgy: Ivana Đula
Project assistant: Matea Bilosnić
Music: Luka Vrbanić
Light: Saša Fistrić
Scenography: Stefano Katunar
Costume: Tina Spahija
Drawings for visual projection: Lena Kramarić
Visual: Ivan Lušičić Liik
Grafic design: Martina Granić
Photography and trailer: Neven Petrović
Production: UO Genijator
PR: Ivana Sansević
Coproduction: PLATFORMA HR 2025, Plesni centar Tala
Thanks to: Petra Orehovec, Fabijan Komljenović, Nataša Govedić
Premiere: 24. 05. 2025. PC Tala
