FRIDAY 29 May
20:00 CirkoBalkana tent
CIRKUSFERA (RS): ENTROPY
Recommended age: 10 +
Duration: 50 minutes
Teaser: https://youtu.be/Y3DP_am1V7s
“People have become so accustomed to walking in chains that they no longer believe it would be easier without them.”
— Julian Beck (The Living Theatre)
About the performance
In a society marked by the erosion of culture and distorted values—where control and possession erase the boundaries of art and freedom of expression—Entropy deliberately dismantles them. Through a circus-based approach to the stage, the work explores the relationship between the artist and their own creation within conditions imposed by society, transforming it into material for a new form of expression.
Suspended between reality and fiction, the performers use an analogue method of image animation via an overhead projector as an interactive scenographic device, continuously drawing and erasing their own reality.
Through object manipulation, elements of physical theatre, and music created live, Entropy becomes a kind of sociological experiment: a reflection of the artist’s life within an environment that imposes limitations, yet simultaneously opens space for creating personal freedoms. There are no final images, no safe positions in the audience—everything disintegrates and reassembles, much like the life of the artist who both survives and creates within such a context.
This work does not attempt to impose order; it acknowledges that within chaos there is a pulse, and within entropy, a creative force.
Author’s note
Entropy is our everyday condition: a state of perpetual incompleteness and a sense of not belonging to a single place or space.
This work emerges in an in-between space—between travel and performance, between the order we strive for and the chaos that constantly overwhelms us. As entropy increases in nature, so too does freedom in our work—freedom from clichés, from domesticated narratives, and from the boundaries between genres.
Working within a form of circus that often remains unrecognised, we explore what it means to create where work frequently goes unnoticed, where the boundaries between art and everyday life are undefined, and where audiences may not always be ready to recognise them. Yet within this invisible space lies the potential for freedom—a space where experimentation, risk and improvisation meet the lived reality of the performer and the surrounding world.
We do not seek applause or validation—we seek space for honest play, for a fragmentary narrative that emerges in the moment, and for the possibility of art existing even where it is not observed.
In this sense, the work is also a manifesto: an acknowledgment that the value of art lies not in its visibility, but in its capacity to create, transform and open space for reflection—even when it is quiet, invisible, or lost in the chaos of everyday life.
Entropy is our confession, our moving diary, our attempt to draw moments of beauty and meaning from the disorder of life.
For us, circus is not an escape from reality—it is a way of enduring within it.
Concept: Milan Manić and Vladana Manić
Music: Aleksandar Radojičić
Performed by: Milan Manić, Vladana Manić, Aleksandar Radojičić
Lighting design: Domagoj Šoić
Scenography: Vladana Manić and Filip Jevtić
Scenography construction: Aleksandar Popović
Costume design: Filip Jevtić
Photography: Strahinja Aćimović, Nata Korenovskaia
Visual design: Jelena Smiljanić
Production: Cirkusfera, Bitef Theatre
The performance was realised within the project FUSION – Contemporary Forms of Art and Sociality, developed in collaboration with the French Institute in Serbia and the regional programme Teatroskop, with the support of the French Embassy in Serbia.
