Some time ago, Daria Vystavkina came to me with an idea.
And invited me into this journey.
She was working steadily, carefully building it step by step.
I was… running in late, jumping in between everything else, catching up in bursts — but trying not to fall behind.
And now it’s real.
Етнографія перформансу: життя в історичному розриві
A full academic course — with 6 ECTS credits, hosted by the University of Bonn.
This is not just a course.
It’s a space where theatre becomes a way of thinking, researching, and making sense of reality.
We will work with:
• Playback Theatre — as a space of witnessing and shared stories
• Documentary Theatre — working with archives, memory, testimony
• Biographical theatre and performance ethnography
• And the connection between personal experience and historical context
We will build a temporary research community — and from there create.
And yes, there will be a final performance.
For me, this is something very important.
Because it brings together things I’ve been working with for years —
Playback, stories, social context, meaning-making — but now in a deeper, more structured, academic frame.
The course explores a very simple and very difficult question:
what does it mean to live through historical rupture?
April 17 – July 31
Fridays, 17:00 CET
Online
6 ECTS (University of Bonn)
Реєстрація: https://offuniversity.org/curren…/performance-ethnography/
I’m honestly very glad this is happening.
And very curious who will join us in this process.
Come if you feel this resonates.