Together Alone

Performers: Diana Khrushch, Olena Korotkova, Anastasiia Pavlovska, Yana Reutova, Valeria Tsvirkunova

Chornomorsk, Odesa, Lviv, Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhia... cities on the map of Ukraine that the dancers left in search of safety in the EU after the war broke out. Their stories are different, but they have one thing in common: they all fled from an occupied country and are confronted daily with the trauma, uncertainty and fear that comes with being a refugee in a foreign land.

Five female Ukrainian dancers, torn from their homes, are here and now. Each for herself and yet together. They are kept above water by their creativity, the ability to create and the opportunity to find a new community – an artistic family.*

At the same time, *Together Alone brings closer the work of other Ukrainian artists. The production is inspired by Anton Ovchinnikov's verses written during the war in Kyiv and is accompanied by the music of the Canadian-based Ukrainian radical anti-Putin band Balaklava Blues. Tomáš Kerle took care of fine-tuning the sound atmosphere.

Length: 25 min