The project TENSION explores how physical and emotional tension is stored in the body, how it affects movement, and what leads to its release. By combining personal and social aspects, Zain investigates tension through artistic play and choreography, connecting bodily experience, identity, and external influences. This exploration addresses not only the physical aspects of tension but also the external factors that generate it. Political pressures, economic instability, growing up as a transgender person in the Balkans, and living within a marginalized community create constant tension in the body. Concept/Choreographer/Performer: Aleksander Zain

The play GLATKA emerges from personal audio and video recordings that the author documented during her gender transition. Through these fragments of everyday life, the work reveals how social, bureaucratic, medical, and cultural norms shape the experience of transition, creating pressure for the body and identity to conform to a socially acceptable ideal of womanhood – one that can integrate and survive. Eva is the first transgender woman to work as a professional actress in institutional theaters in Serbia. Through her work, she addresses questions of identity and the challenges faced by marginalized groups in society. She explores unconventional contemporary forms, using the body as the primary medium of presence on stage.