with playback performance
September, 28 at 14:00-20:00
Elsenstraße 87, 12435 Berlin
Hello, dear friends!
I'm turning 30 this year (after the event, on October 19), and I want to reflect with my friends on aging. I offer a co-created experience with exercises, movement laboratory, connective sharings and a playback performance (performed by a trained playback group)
We are all aging. When you are 29, like me, you are aging. When you are 20 or 80 - you are aging.
How does your body changes? Do you experience shame, grief connected to those changes? What is unfolding now that you didn’t expect? What hopes and fears do you have, acknowledging that you - and your loved ones - won't physically live forever?
We have 2 big parts: first part where everyone is moving and doing the exercises actively (if they want), second part when participants becoming a theatre audience, sit on the chairs or on the floor and watch the performance.
Playback Theatre is a social improvisational theatre where any person from the audience can share personal story, and trained actors immediately “play them back” on stage through movement, dialogue, music, metaphors. The purpose is to foster empathy, connection, and healing; reflect individual experiences within a collective context and validate and honour voices that might not often be heard.
(P.S. I am a part of the play back group, this year we are finishing the official certification program in Playback. Some clarification: we'll be playing, talking to you, you'll be watching :) )
I also invite you to come & help with the preparation on September, 26 - we will do a CRAFTERNOON.
Let's co-create! You can contribute to the experience with your art, facilitation, homemade food, ideas - please contact me, I'd be happy to discuss.
are united by
birth,
life,
death, and
every emotion
in between
- Movement laboratory
- Welcome talk
- Walking Statistics
- Drawing your timeline and sharing in a small groups
- Writing a letter
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You can pay donation.
Recommended donation is between 20€ - 60€
- Natasha
This is a link with links about me: https://linktr.ee/Natasha_Kuzmina
And below is a text with reflections about aging:
I like that in the phrase “I AGE” there’s no sense of rising or fading — just the fact of changing age.
I’ve started noticing how my body changes. Not gradually — like in my twenties — but suddenly.
At 29, I wasn’t prepared to hear my knee crack when getting out of bed. Whatever you go to the doctor with — the universal prescription is: “air out the room and drink more water.”
When I was on the cusp of becoming a teenager, I learned at school about the changes my body would soon go through — and I felt prepared. But no one ever told me that around thirty and beyond, wrinkles, quicker weight gain, and reduced flexibility are also natural changes. Changes which we collectively deny and do everything we can to fight against them.
We don’t want to admit the fact that we are mortal. Every new wrinkle is an annoying reminder that we’re going to die.
It’s a truthful and sobering perspective from which to look at life.
I will die.
How do I want to spend my time?
What is valuable to me?
What speech would I like to be heard at my funeral — and does it matter at all?
What would I want to say to myself today — from the version of me who is dying?
If, in the end, I take nothing with me — how do I want to live?
From that perspective, I want to touch on the topic of “beauty and youth” — because as for AFAB person, I feel how shame of visible aging comes bundled with the label “woman.”. No matter how much I love my body or what word I currently use to describe my gender, I was socialized as a woman in a white, Western, individualist, heteronormative, patriarchal, capitalist society — and that shaped my understanding of beauty and youth.
What is “beauty”? Beauty is a social construct. It’s not innate or objective. Its standards change from century to century, country to country, class to class. Beauty is always about conforming to what is considered *normal* in a particular society.
Maybe we can slowly deconstruct the idea of "beauty"?
- We will have an altar, you can bring your childhood photo, a flower, a candle and/or a physical item that reminds you of birth, life, death.
- Food & drinks to share: homemade food and birthday cakes are highly appreciated! Also good to bring snacks, cheese, fruits, juice... We have a kitchen with hot water, cups and cutlery; no microwave, no plates.
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