“ pOOr Butt Zany ”
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Concept & Choreography & Performance & Production Daria Iuriichuk
Set design & Lighting Yi-Ju Chou
Costumes Yi-Ju Chou & Sy-Yu Chen
Sound design Alina Anufrienko
Premiere 18.12.2025 Tanzfabrik, Uferstudios 4, Berlin
Inspired by Zanni, the commedia dell’arte servant and dispossessed immigrant, reborn as a gig worker, this dance solo employs this sweaty, anxious and playful virtuoso in failure to explore affective landscapes of post-socialist spaces. In a desert of austerity and populist algorithms, the body shuffles through affective archives and erotic iconographies, asking what kind of vital forces remain when even desire feels scripted. Can the erotic be a form of agency, or is failure the body’s last act of freedom? Drifting between late-night cartoon and psychological horror, pOOr Butt Zany fuses slapstick and autofiction into a dance for those who keep performing when the show should already be over.
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Funded by the District Cultural Fund Mitte. With kind support of theaterhaus berlin. Special thanks to Aurora Kellermann, Lea Pischke, Anna Kozonina, Polina Fenko, and Ada Mukhina for their professional advice and feedback, and to all my test audience. With kind support of theaterhaus berlin and Cashmere Radio.
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