Life in Beta: Single Player (End Phase) unfolds within the conceptual universe of Life in Beta, developed within the EU co-funded project dancEUA, connecting organizations from Croatia, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, and Sweden.

The work explores a world driven by optimization, abundance, and the pursuit of collective perfection. Set within a living system, bodies function as nodes – synchronized, corrected, and continuously updated by a central intelligence. Within this structure, individuality is not erased, but regulated – aligned, adjusted, and absorbed into the logic of the whole.

In Single Player (End Phase), this system is approached from the perspective of a single body. Isolated within its framework, the performer operates under the same conditions of control, yet without the collective dynamic that once sustained it. Movement becomes contingent, suspended between activation and inertia, as the body remains in a state of continuous waiting.

What emerges is not a reduction, but a shift in focus: optimization reveals itself not through acceleration, but through stasis; not through progress, but through dependency. Life in Beta: Single Player (End Phase) reflects a condition already familiar – where autonomy gives way to guidance, and where the absence of direction becomes its own form of control.

Life in Beta: Single Player (End Phase)
Premiere: 25/2/2026

Choreography: Sofija Milić

Mentorship: Maša Kolar

Original cast: Mina Ugrin, Iva Matošević, Freya Farnlof, Julia Ekvold, Helen Tamasko, Janka Komuves, Vlad Furtuna, Anastasia Preotu, Mariia Kalashnikova, Yuliia Brazhnik

Single player cast: Sofija Milić

Music: Ognjen Šušić

Costume Design: Karlo Blažina

Visuals: Tihomir Filipec

Photo & video: Nina Đurđević

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 organisations: 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) and TALA PLES.