Dolce Hera performed the song Casanova 91 at the Montesong 2025 festival as an unconventional art theater performance.
This art performance was directed by Dolce Hera. The scenario was written under the impression of the idea that the lines from the chorus that suggest such an unconditional love cannot be addressed to anyone but ourselves. The specific story about the conflict between her ego and her alter ego is to represent the idea of what is the search for the unconditional love. In this sense it is nothing more than the seek for our own reflection in the mirror or searching ourselves in the other. Love like the search for what we are or what we would like to be, the best version of ourselves in the other person. It suggest that the unconditional love is an illusion of series of thoughts about ourselves, as the perfect love doesn’t exist.
The song Casanova 91 was written in the masculine gender by Hera so in the performance she appeared in the role of her male alter ego. The scenario envisioned a ballerina who would act out her softer side of personality, her ego, through classical ballet.
The purity and strength of her ego’s personality are expressed through the choreography designed by choreographer Ivan Salonski, in collaboration with the ballet school “Princess Ksenija” from Podgorica and ballerina Valentina Grujičić.
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Fencing as part of the choreography poetically represents an internal conflict between ego and alter ego. In that conflict, the ego wins the male alter ego, from under which a new female alter ego emerges, which is ultimately destroyed.
The complex script is accompanied by scenes on led screens showing Hera trying to touch herself in a mirror surrounded by a scenography made of scattered drum elements under a cobweb, in some imaginary abandoned place.
The video that was shown on the LED screens was prepared by Phototrade, the producer Rade Todorović, as an upcoming music video for this song.
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The moment with putting on red lipstick as the final moment of transformation into her female alter ego. A kiss on the ballerina’s neck as a metaphor for platonic love, unattainable and untouchable, romantic and ancient. A kiss that symbolizes the catching up of the platonic love, which at the same time destroys it because it concretizes it. A kiss is like a moment of handing ourselves over to another and giving the other an opportunity to completely destroy you.
The mark on the neck from that red lipstick as a stain that remains on the ballerina – on the “ego” after the destruction of Hera, the “alter ego”. The red mark from the kiss as the only evidence that remains of that surreal love, when its protagonist disappears forever.
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The complexity of this concept presupposes an intellectual exchange with an audience that can delve into the layers of meanings presented.
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