Calima

CALIMA is a choreographic investigation of Saharan dust storms that travel across borders and oceans, carried from North Africa toward the Canary Islands and beyond.
These atmospheric movements transform landscapes into suspended environments where the horizon disappears, visibility is reduced, and the air itself becomes thick with matter.
At the center of this work is breath; breath under pressure, breath interrupted, breath shared. CALIMA is not only a landscape we observe, but an atmosphere we must breathe through. It enters the body, alters rhythm, and reshapes perception from within.
The choreography emerges from this fragile relationship between body and air. Movement is shaped by how breath expands, resists, or shortens under changing atmospheric density. Bodies are not placed in calima they are continuously produced by it.

Direction: Anna Borràs
Choreography: Anna Borràs in collaboration with the dancers
Performed by: Anita Czako, Hilda Holm, Lea Amneby Snickers, Maja Grimsted, Daria Cristea, Teodor Cauș, Valeriia Lysenkovska, Valeriia Churai, Juliia Tytska, Nikita Sulko
Dramaturgical consultant: Martina Tomić
Musical composition: Alex Paton
Light design: Ema Kani
Costumes: Karlo Blažina
Props / Scarves: Montserrat Picó
Fabric supplied by: Joan Maria Borràs
Production assistant: Matilda Bjärum
Photo and video: Ana Opalić
Trailer: Nina Đurđević
Visual design: Tihomir Filipec

** This performance is created within the framework of the dancEUA project, co-funded by the European Union through the Creative Europe programme. The project is implemented by the following organizations: Studio za suvremeni ples (HR), Central Europe Dance Theatre (HU), M Studio (RO), Vitlycke – CPA (SE) and Ukrainian Contemporary Dance Platform (UA).

In collaboration: Zagrebački plesni centar (ZPC)
Financially supported by: European Union, Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb, and Kultura Nova Foundation.
Supported by: OŠ Stjepana Radića – Bibinje, Skånes Dansteater, Danscentrum Syd and København Danser Studios, for providing studio facilities during the creation and rehearsal process.