The performance “Care – Three Shift System” by Jasna Layes Vinovrški *Care – Three Shift System* is a new work by choreographer Jasna Layes Vinovrški, created in collaboration with three performers—Koraljka Begović, Melita Spahić Bezjak, and Larisa Lipovac Navojec—who are simultaneously producers, heads of artistic organizations, mothers, partners, and daughters. They have been compelled to develop and practice multiple roles of caregiving across various spheres of activity. The creative process raised questions about how this care—which is deeply interwoven with their identities—impacts them and their bodies. Does it manifest as a sense of control? As a need for constant control? As a state of readiness and responsibility? And where does this need for care—which knows no set working hours—actually come from? These intimate questions intertwine with the global situation, characterized by declining birth rates and increasing life expectancy, where issues of care and nurturing become matters of survival—for both humanity and our very humanity.

Concept and choreography: Jasna Layes Vinovrški

Performers: Koraljka Begović, Melita Spahić Bezjak, Larisa Lipovac Navojec
Lighting design: Saša Fistrić
Sound design / Graphic design: Hrvoje Jelinčić
Costume design: Ana Paulić
Set design: Clément Layes and Dora Đurkesac
Dramaturgy: Nikolina Rafaj

The performance was produced through a collaboration between three artistic organizations—Nomadic Dance Academy Croatia, Tala Dance Center, and Cie. Public in Private—with the support of the City of Zagreb’s City Office for Culture, Intercity and International Cooperation and Civil Society; the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia; the Goethe-Institut’s International Coproduction Fund; and the Kultura Nova Foundation.