A selection of my work, spanning solo performance, ensemble creation, and site-specific research.
Solo Performances
The Alchemy of Green Gold (WIP, 2026)
A multidisciplinary, site-specific solo performance that continues my research into the body as archive. The work explores how ecological collapse shapes cultural imagination, belief systems, and collective memory through ritual, embodied storytelling, repetition, and fairy-tale narration.
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Set in a post-apocalyptic world of nuclear winter and radioactive dust, the protagonist navigates a fragile condition of survival: stay or leave, resist or surrender. A single green banana, associated with humanitarian aid, scarcity, and global circulation, becomes a mythological object of desire. “Green Gold” embodies survival and a future that is always anticipated but never fully arrives.
The symbol of the green banana is rooted in lived cultural memory. In Soviet and post-Soviet contexts, green bananas were a marker of scarcity and longing: imported unripe for transport, arriving still green, requiring collective practices of waiting and after-ripening. Households developed informal rituals of transformation: wrapping bananas in newspaper, placing them in dark, warm spaces, and waiting for them to become edible. This everyday choreography of patience reflects how time, desire, and survival were structured through systems of shortage.
In the performance, this memory expands into a post-apocalyptic mythology. The banana becomes both a material object and a cultural fiction, shaped by systems of distribution, ideology, and imagination. The work investigates how survival is never only biological but symbolic: produced through ritual, narrative, and inherited forms of waiting. Nature in the performance is not a backdrop but an active force that shapes perception and behaviour. Ecological pressure generates cultural meaning, while culture in turn reshapes how nature is understood and inhabited.
She Is Growing Potatoes (2023–2025)
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A multidisciplinary solo performance exploring migration, displacement, and the loss of native language. The work approaches uprootedness as transformation rather than rupture, using memory, voice, and embodied storytelling as tools of reconstruction. The potato functions as both material and metaphor—an object of survival and shared humanity across borders.
The scenography is built from second-hand materials, reflecting ecological awareness and ethical creation practices. The work continues an ongoing inquiry into the body as archive: how meaning persists when language becomes unstable.
Next showcase: 13.06.2026, AstaroTheatro
Whirlpool (2018–2021)
A solo performance based on Sigarev’s monologue, reinterpreted from a female perspective. The work explores the embodiment of violence, trauma, and memory, questioning how lived experience can be translated into performance without imitation. The scenographic space, a dark forest, functions as an inner psychological landscape of unconscious memory and rupture. Each performance ended with an open audience conversation addressing ethical and emotional questions around representation and embodiment.
Group & Collaborative Performances
We Share (2026)
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The work emerges from ongoing collaboration developed through my acting practice in Amsterdam Noord. It explores how people carry embodied memory: taste, language, and lived experience, and how these fragments transform when placed in relation. The performance begins with five individuals gathered as if around an invisible table. Each performer arrives with personal “luggage”: memories of home, food, and cultural gestures. Gradually, isolation shifts into relation. What begins as parallel presence becomes shared composition. The work investigates how identity changes through exposure and how collective memory is continuously rewritten in performance.
Bébé / Grom (2024)
A collaborative performance research project developed with theatre students and participants from diverse backgrounds. The process explored inner childhood, memory, and food through colour, temperament, and embodied storytelling. The group co-created a script through shared autobiographical material. Each participant contributed personal narratives that shaped the dramaturgy. The project ended with a shared meal and guided meditation, extending performance into relational and post-performance space. The work investigates collective authorship and facilitation as artistic practice.
Bacchae (2018–2020)
A five-hour ensemble performance reimagining The Bacchae inside a techno nightclub environment. The work explored collective trance, physical exhaustion, and vocal intensity as performative tools. The project raised questions about gendered representation in classical theatre and the positioning of female bodies within inherited narratives. It strengthened a long-term interest in dismantling hierarchical structures and exploring collective dramaturgies in performance.
