SomaHut is an initiative launched in 2020 under the umbrella of the Zagreb-based art organisation Multimedijalna koliba. It is dedicated to connecting people and to the development and dissemination of knowledge arising from the exploration of the phenomena of body and movement through different approaches, disciplines and fields of human activity: art, science, education, care…

This year’s SomaHut festival is a two-day event which, on 9 and 10 May, gathers international and local artists and somatic practitioners in the premises of KONTEJNER in Zagreb, Odranska 1, to share through performances, workshops, ‘warming up the audience’ and conversations with visitors the results of artistic processes, as well as the impulses and questions that guide their research. The festival is centred around an interest in the body as a place of conditioning, imperatives and fears – fear of stopping, of the future, of the unknown – but also of their continuous processing, transformation and opening of new possibilities. For two days, KONTEJNER will thus become a space of encounter, socialising and exchange of somatic experience, performative possibilities and knowledge.

The Saturday programme begins with the "CONTINUUM PRACTICE WORKSHOP" led by Sylvain Méret, dance artist, movement and dance therapist, educator and somatic practitioner, whom Zagreb audiences have already had the opportunity to encounter through the Improspekcije festival. In the afternoon there will be an experiential anatomy workshop for children between 6 and 10 years of age on the theme "WHAT ARE BONES FOR?", led by Marina Brajdić and Zrinka Šimičić. The evening programme brings the performances "SHIFT INTO AN UNKNOWN PAUSE" by Anja Bornšek, dance artist and somatic movement educator; "VOLUME OF MEMORY" by Tina Valentan, dance artist and trainee in expressive therapy at the Tamalpa Institute; and "HOW CAN WE WATCH?" by dance artist Ana Kljujev, a final-year undergraduate student of Contemporary Dance at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb.
On Sunday morning the "CONTINUUM PRACTICE WORKSHOP" continues, while the afternoon programme begins with a discussion on "SOMATIC EDUCATION AND THE SOMATIC IN EDUCATION", bringing together members of the SomaHut study group, teachers from the Department of Dance at the Academy of Dramatic Art, somatic practitioners, educators and everyone interested in the processes of embodied learning and teaching. The evening programme presents the performance work "KONTAMINA" by Mateo Babić and the ritual performance "FLUID and T" by Sylvain Méret.

Further details about the programme can be found in the attachment or on the website: SomaHut Festival 2026.

All performance programmes are free of charge, with donations according to your possibilities.
The participation fee for the workshop “Continuum Practices” is €90, or €60 with an early registration discount (available until 30 April 2026).
Registration for the workshops is required via: somahut.mmk@gmail.com