Dissolution (Trailer)

The performance „Dissolution“ is a search for sensitivity and a process of mourning. The performers – Jeanna Kolesova, Kira Shmyr, Miriam Cochanski, Victoria Sarangova and Ziliä Qansurá – explore how sensitivity to differences has been repeatedly erased and how this sensitivity can reemerge. They invite each other, along with the audience, into spaces where something or someone was absent and left unmourned. Queer, trans, Indigenous, non-Russian, disabled and nonhuman perspectives—often separated by Russian rules—are reinterpreted through relationships of interdependence. The colonial notion of a single form of justice with a singular collective memory begins to dissolve. Instead of dreaming up a general future for a „free Russia“, the artists mourn the steppes, mountains, swamps, stones, animals, lost languages, spirits, and people. Grief permeates everything. All is in a state of dissolution – texts, visuals, sounds, felting, embroidery and magic instructions play in a nonlinear way.

• FÖRDERUNG

  Gefördert durch die IMPACT-Förderung aus Mitteln der Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt.

• Credits

• Concept

  Jeanna Kolesova, Kira Shmyr, Victoria Sarangova, Ziliä Qansurá

• Performers

  Jeanna Kolesova, Kira Shmyr, Miriam Cochanski, Victoria Sarangova, Ziliä Qansurá

• Visuals

  Irina Nodiova, Jeanna Kolesova, Kira Shmyr, Victoria Sarangova, Ziliä Qansurá

• Text contributions

  Irina Nodirova, Mira Gafar

• Accessibility dramaturgy

  Ari Althaus, Kira Shmyr

• Audio Description

  Ari Althaus & Team

• Stage Design

  Jeanna Kolesova, Kira Shmyr, Victoria Sarangova, Ziliä Qansurá

• Costumes

  Jeanna Kolesova, Kira Shmyr, Miriam Cochanski, Victoria Sarangova, Ziliä Qansurá

• Video Design

  Bryan Schall

• Sound & Light

  Georgii Malykh

• Light set up

  M.Ali Dönmez

• Outside eye

  Ann-Reb Thomas

• Project support

  Mariia Vorotilina

• Care assistant

  Sophie Lembcke

• Facilitator

  Anajara Amarante

• Photos

  Louisa Boeszoermeny

• Graphics

  Balzhima