We die alone. We bury together. A participatory performance that explores the political and theatrical nature of the funeral ritual and deconstructs its settled mechanism. A ritual for which it is impossible to be fully prepared, but during this rehearsal any last wish can be fulfilled.
The audience is invited to join the scripted burial ceremony, turn on their common memory of the ritual and bring in their differences of cultures and societies. To rehearse, to deconstruct, to discuss they will have the conflicted russian body of the performer whose last wish is to do no more harm and become peaceful compost.
Natasha Borenko – a Siberian-born fluid theater maker, queer feminist migrant artist, who sees participatory art as a tool to deconstruct the system and rehearse the change. She develops this piece in collaboration with cross-cultural interdisciplinary artists.
A production by Natasha Borenko in cooperation with Ballhaus Ost. Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal
Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR.
Thanks to Theaterhaus Schöneweide, K-Salon, Das Fährhaus, Bestattung Lichtblick, Hanna Schaich, Amelie Kahn-Ackermann, Dennis Depta and to all those who supported us as test audience in our process.
