SERBIA PERFORMANCE

Quirky, feisty, funny and provocative, this performance directed by Dijana Milosevic and performed by Ivana Milenovic Popovic, Chloe Atkinson, Eleanor Kingsford and Ruby Mcilroy, was scripted from the perspective of young people reflecting on recent social and political changes, before leaving a letter to the older generations. Made in a post-Brexit climate, in a collaboration between UK students and practitioners from Serbia, this piece was the most ideological in challenging the systems of government, democracy, and foregrounding how the young people felt politically vulnerable and cheated from a future without European allegiance. That statements about contemporary feminism, the state of social services and state transparency were delivered in amongst swaying dances, synchronised rolling on the floor, and communal hair-brushing, served to underscore the strong bonds of (improvised) communities at the same time as fracture in the super structures. The audience were simultaneously charmed and disquieted by this performance, keeping in step with Dah Teater’s ability to disrupt and provoke through anachronistic constellation of word and image.