Valeria Khripatch — our artist-in-residence at sasha waltz & guests since February 2023 — will present the results of her artistic research during the residency, followed by a talk with the artist moderated by PerspAKTIV’s partner and art manager Anna Chistoserdova (Ambasada Kultury).

The presentation with the name »A place« is a project about the experience of forced migration, in which Valeria Khripatch uses the experience of her own forced migration from Belarus as a way to see and share the realities of millions of migrants in new ways. The author’s experience is projected onto the cultural practices of millenia-old experience of human migration, starting with the songlines of indigenous people of Australia and plunging into the infinity standing behind Neolithic Venuses.

The three parts of the production represent three steps from the surface of the world into the anthropological abyss: the inner space of the migrant, the feeling of community under stark restrictions and the global and unsupported world of eternal nomads.

︎︎︎ Idea/Concept/Direction: Valeria Khripatch
︎︎︎ Dance: Valeria Khripatch, Lex Shcherbakov, Liam Wustrack, Sho Nakasatomi, Alexandra Sikorskaya
︎︎︎ Music/Sound: Rati Baramadze, Giuseppe Pascucci, Giovanni Cristino (Baco)
︎︎︎ Light: Sergey Novitskiy
︎︎︎ Video projection: Alexandra Kononchenko
︎︎︎ Coordination Sasha Waltz & Guests: Emilie Guérin

If you are curious, come and join the open-studio-session on 5 March at 19 pm!