New Theatre Club

Performance in Belarusian with Polish and English subtitles.

Note: the performance uses flashing lights of strong intensity.

22.01 tickets STU 25 PLN

Duration: 40 minutes

Tickets: 50/35 PLN

A week before the Festival of Mary Magdalene in 1518, Frau Troffea left her house through the courtyard and unexpectedly for herself began to dance feverishly on one of the narrow streets of Strasbourg. She danced all day until late evening, and then all night. On the third day of her mad dancing, she was extremely exhausted, her shoes soaked in blood, but she could not stop. Eventually, her contagious dance rolled through the city and triggered a dance epidemic that brought many victims.

Immersing herself in the story of Frau Troffea, the performer recounts her own experience of traumatic obsession and the relentless search for freedom, which seems painful and deadly. The shock caused by separation from home and the past, forced emigration from Belarus, and the search for oneself makes her completely dissolve in the attractive Berlin rave culture. The magnetism of techno brings an external and internal transformation of the partygoer. Under the influence of intense stress caused by stimulants, she experiences a new freedom of communication and movement. Accelerating, the performer loses and regains the precision of movement, observes the body's reactions, catches critical indicators of heart rate. This action, both physiological and poetic, reveals various artistic dimensions. Through an intense body ceremony, the story of the illness of the entire country and the obsessive search for a cure in freedom is told.

BY

Concept, direction: Sergey Shabohin

Idea, performance: Igor Shugaleev

Choreography: Agnieszka Kryst

Music: Mikita Bubashkin

Visualization: Aleksandra Kononchenko

Producer: Marina Dashuk

Subtitles (BY): Yania Arlova

Subtitles (PL): Maria Pushkina

Subtitles (ENG): Sara Tokina

Subtitles (DE): Yaraslava Ananka, Heinrich Kirschbaum

Project production: KALEKTAR (research platform on Belarusian contemporary art)

Co-production: New Theatre

As part of ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES OF THE THEATER INSTITUTE | UKRAINE-BELARUS

Partners: JunОst in Bayern, Prague Pride

Premiere: December 15, 2022

Tour:

October 4, 2024 Art Week, Białystok

August 31, 2024 Internationale Tanzmesse nrw, Düsseldorf (Germany)

October 28-29, 2023 Theater festival SPIELART, Munich (Germany)

July 2, 2023 Malta Festival, Poznań

June 29 - July 1, 2023 Open'er 2023, Gdynia