Performance · Premiere by Daria Iuriichuk
Inspired by Zanni, the commedia dell’arte servant and dispossessed immigrant, reborn as a gig worker, this dance solo employs this sweaty, anxious and playful virtuoso in failure to explore affective landscapes of post-socialist spaces.
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VISUAL pOOr Butt Zany
In a desert of austerity and populist algorithms, the body shuffles through affective archives and erotic iconographies, asking what kind of vital forces remain when even desire feels scripted. Can the erotic be a form of agency, or is failure the body’s last act of freedom?
Drifting between late-night cartoon and psychological horror, pOOr Butt Zany fuses slapstick and autofiction into a dance for those who keep performing when the show should already be over.
Additional information
Concept, choreography, performance, production: Daria Iuriichuk
Set design, lighting: Yi-Ju Chou Costumes: Yi-Ju Chou, Sy-Yu Chen
Sound design: Alina Anufrienko
Funded by the District Cultural Fund Mitte. Special thanks to Aurora Kellermann, Lea Pischke, Anna Kozonina, Polina Fenko, and Ada Mukhina for their professional advice and feedback, and to all my test audience.
Daria Iuriichuk (she/her) is a dance artist, researcher, and educator based in Berlin. Her work explores the political dimensions of performativity,infrastructural critique, and body politics. In her recent research and artistic projects, she examines choreography as an algorithmic medium that abstracts movement into data and its affective potential. Together with Polina Fenko, she co-founded ‘Girls in Scores’, a project focused on artistic research at the intersection of media studies and expanded choreography.
Set design, lighting: Yi-Ju Chou Costumes: Yi-Ju Chou, Sy-Yu Chen
Sound design: Alina Anufrienko
Funded by the District Cultural Fund Mitte. Special thanks to Aurora Kellermann, Lea Pischke, Anna Kozonina, Polina Fenko, and Ada Mukhina for their professional advice and feedback, and to all my test audience.
Daria Iuriichuk (she/her) is a dance artist, researcher, and educator based in Berlin. Her work explores the political dimensions of performativity,infrastructural critique, and body politics. In her recent research and artistic projects, she examines choreography as an algorithmic medium that abstracts movement into data and its affective potential. Together with Polina Fenko, she co-founded ‘Girls in Scores’, a project focused on artistic research at the intersection of media studies and expanded choreography.
Dates
December 2025
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