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HOLDING a hammer in her right hand and pushing her gas mask up onto her forehead with the other, the acrobat Danka Sekulović steps away from the clattering noise of the building site to catch her breath.

Illuminated by the bright midday sun, she is wearing a vest top and a layer of the fine grey dust left behind by shattered bricks, a combination that gives her the appearance of Lara Croft – if she were to swap tomb raiding for construction work. A member of the Serbian organisation for the development of contemporary circus and street theatre, Cirkusfera, Danka has taken up tools to help remodel Magacin u Kraljevića Marka, the shared space in downtown Belgrade where they rehearse and occasionally perform. “In this city, you learn to do what needs to be done,” she says. “And, right now, we need to break down some walls.”

Over the past decade, crumbling former industrial buildings across the