Yugo Yoga is a project created in 2008 by Lara Ritosa-Roberts together with her collective Performance Klub Fiskulturnik. It consists of participatory performances blending visual arts, live art, and theatrical movement to explore the shifting legacies of European socialist culture.
The project’s name combines “Yugoslavia,” the artist’s country of origin, and “yoga,” meaning “union.” Through collective movement that merges yoga disciplines, poses inspired by revolutionary sculptures, socialist physical-exercise practices (fiskultura), and New Age motivational messages, the audience moves between nostalgic remembrance and an ironic, humorous use of public space.
The work of Performance Klub Fiskulturnik debuts in Trieste for the 37th edition of the Trieste Film Festival, within Cizerouno’s Crossing the Border project, after being presented in Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom.
Lara Ritosa-Roberts Lara Ritosa-Roberts is a multidisciplinary artist working across performance art, sculpture, installation, moving image, and sound. Born in Istria, Croatia, she has lived and worked in London, UK, since 1994, where she teaches at Morley College Chelsea.
Klaudia Wittmann is a dancer, choreographer, and researcher at the Centre for Dance Research in Coventry, UK. Her work intersects music, dance-theatre, and film, focusing on themes such as gender oppression.
