Two performances share the big stage at Frankfurt LAB with a short intermission!

Emigrant Songs
Nastya Dzyuban

In “Emigrant Songs,” four performers weave voices, bodies, and threads into a shared landscape. As a camouflage net slowly takes shape, folk songs inspired by the Polissya/Palesse region overlap and carry fragments of home across borders. Between weaving and singing, they explore cultural camouflage and the silent negotiations of migration—and ask how a voice can remain present while searching for a place to belong.

Initiated by: Nastya Dzyuban
Created and performed in collaboration between: Nastya Dzyuban, Olen Mamai, Hanna Launikovich, Andrii Punko
Costume: Delphina O. Hennig
Woodwork and emotional support: Nice Kager
Folk singing transmission & guidance: Tetiana Illchenko, Dariia Bakalova and folk music group Bozhedary
Folklore research & guidance: Andrii Punko
Sound Design: Hanna Launikovich
Technical support: Felix Schwarzrock

Big warm thanks to: Bernhard Siebert, Frédéric de Carlo, René Alejandro Huari Mateus, Barbara Krzoska, Chiara Marcassa, Jenny Flügge, Florian Ackermann and Frankfurt LAB team, Ida Daniel and IX ProsoziTé collective, Natalia Shcherbina, Olena Bronnikova and other members of the Weaving group, Melika Moazeni, Fabian Schäfer and Mania collective, Halyna Oblonina, Polina Oblonina, Tetiana Saienko

Funded by Kulturamt Frankfurt, Gesellschaft Freunde internationales Theater Frankfurt

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Justice Wins or Tappen im Dunkeln
ASJA

At the beginning: a murder. At the end: the solution. In between: completely unclear.
Wearing trench coats, casting long shadows, and brimming with brilliant self-confidence, ASJA and René Alejandro Huari Mateus approach the figure of the master detective as we know him from series such as True Detective, Sherlock, Twin Peaks, Tatort, TKKG, or Kalle Blomquist.
A mysterious case, a crackling radio, and the stage as the scene of the crime.
In front of a gathered audience, our detectives question their longing for complete enlightenment and examine their desire for a genre that is as mysterious as it is violent.

Content note:
The performance deals with the crime genre and addresses the themes of violence, death, murder, and police on a linguistic and visual level. There is a rag doll on stage that serves as a corpse and a toy gun without ammunition. There may be gunshot noises and a sudden bang. At times, the stage is dimly lit or dark, and there is fog and vaping.

By and with: ASJA, René Alejandro Huari Mateus, Maren Ada Küpper, Nora Schneider, Felix Schwarzrock

Supported by Kulturamt Frankfurt and Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst.