WED 30.03.: Dance Performance: “Dumped Dreams”

Shedhalle / Events / March 2011 / Wednesday March 30, 9 pm

Gluklya: UUU N4 (Zürich), 2011

“Dumped Dreams”   30. March, 2011, 9 pm

Dance Performance by Gluklya with dancers and asylum seekers from Zurich, and discussion

The work of Gluklya, pseudonym for Natalia Pershina from St. Petersburg, deals with the social drawbacks of our neo-liberal system of values, favouring self-marketing and causing pressure to perform. Founder of the duo “Factory of Found Clothes” and member of the Russian collective “Chto Delat?”, Gluklya develops, together with her partner Tsaplya, performance utopias of another kind, a different system. The project “Utopian Unemployment Union” (UUU) is socially layed out and is role play at the same time, mirroring different models of life and fates.

After her workshops in St. Petersburg, gent (Belgium) and Paris Gluklya comes to Zurich. She will be giving a workshop “Dumped Dreams”, the Utopian Unemployment Union N4, having asylum seekers performing their dreams as dancers, under the direction of a choreographer and together with professional dancers. In this work, the artist focuses on two topics often marginalised – our fellow human beings who are denied their rights, and our dreams. The work deals with the experience of labels like “experts”, or the “socially weak”, it deals with solitude and with community, and asks which utopias the dreams of “others” reveal.

Dumped Dreams, Utopian Unemployment Union N4 (Workshop, March 21 – 30, 2011).