With this call for scores, MBZ and the Croatian Composers' Society HDS are looking for music for the new ballet piece for chamber ensemble and electronics - optional inspired by the theme of the festival: Broken Relationships. Following this call for scores, a call for a choreographer will also be launched. The winners of the two calls will realize the project in coordination with the MBZ artistic team and Massimiliano Volpini, the director of the Ballet of the Croatian National Theatre.
The prize money will be paid to the author or authors after the submission of the score in digital form as per the contract. For further information, you can contact us at new.
The Museum of Broken Relationships is a physical and virtual space that collects, preserves and exhibits personal objects and stories of symbolic emotional value. The museum is an ever-growing collection of objects, reminders of past relationships, accompanied by personal but anonymous stories of their donors.
In contrast to destructive self-help guides for coping with grief and loss, the museum offers the opportunity to creatively overcome an emotional breakdown - by participating in the museum's universal collection.
Since then, the museum has taken thousands of people on a journey around the world, questioning the human understanding of heritage. Starting from an emotional understanding of this term, the festival extends it to cultural, social and political issues. Consequently, the theme of 'broken relationships' can also be understood as a broken link between different cultural actors, a broken connection with neglected architectural and cultural heritage in the city, a broken relationship between artists abroad and their home countries, but of course also beyond.
