Dombos Fest Szerbia

Serbia

The Flock Project
– Eco Flight Etudes at Dombos Fest

Serbia

In June 2025, The Flock Project presented its latest site-specific vertical dance performance, Eco Flight Etudes, at Dombos Fest in Kishegyes, Serbia.

Created exclusively for the festival venue, the performance took place on a natural loess wall, using its vertical surface as the stage. Secured with climbing harnesses, the dancers moved across the steep terrain, forging a powerful connection between nature and art.

Dombos Fest, held in the heart of the multicultural village of Kishegyes, is a long-standing Hungarian–Serbian cultural festival with strong regional recognition and broad media coverage. Its diverse audience and unique setting made it the perfect platform for presenting Eco Flight Etudes.

Company

Our artistic team was formed in 2016 from the Simorág TánCirkusz company.

Dancers gliding like flocks of birds, jumping, spinning, spinning, somersaulting in the air up to 30 metres above the audience. Vertical dance company The Flock Project tells a story from a new perspective, turning the world upside down.

What makes the vertical dance genre special is the illusion that the performance takes place on a stage turned 90 degrees. We combine special elements of aerial acrobatics at home and internationally. The performance does not require a stage, but is performed on the walls of houses or castles, up to 30 metres in the air.

Some of our performances are stories based on theatre dramaturgy. As creators, we like to reflect on current social phenomena according to their topicality. In our work, the question of the relationship with the environment, the question of listening to each other, appears.

Creativity, modernity and technical innovation characterise our work.

Meet the company

Otro tiempo

Otro Tiempo is a non-profit NGO founded by feminist and ecologically committed women. They work for a just and diverse society free from violence. Their commitment to feminist and ecological principles and their efforts to create a non-violent society are truly inspiring. Their focus on awareness-raising projects is key to promoting understanding and achieving positive change.

They use experiential and participatory pedagogies that focus on gender equality and human rights.

The Otro Planeta initiative is an inclusive enterprise created to change the lives of vulnerable women and/or survivors of gender-based violence. By collecting used cooking oil and converting it into biodiesel, they create jobs that help these women rebuild their lives and offer companies the opportunity to work on their corporate social responsibility (CSR).

This activity is co-funded by the Community of Madrid and the European Social Fund as part of the European Union's response to pandemic COVID-19.