Polissja \/ Palesse is a region spanning the border of Ukraine and Belarus, where a cultural and linguistic commons exists, connecting Ukrainian and Belarusian despite imperial attempts to erase both languages and cultures. In Emigrant songs, four performers gather fragments of this heritage, weaving their voices into a living, breathing archive. <\/p>\n
At the heart of the piece is the camouflage net \u2014 a mesh of fabric and stories, of (in)visibility and protection in the ongoing war. On stage, threads are knotted, hands move rhythmically, voices rise, and heels begin to stomp. <\/p>\n
How much do you blend in to stay safe? Cultural camouflage becomes an effort to weave oneself into new social fabrics \u2014 to soften one\u2019s outline, to mask a presence, to disappear into the background. Migration turns into a constant dance between the desire to be heard and the necessity to dissolve into the landscape. Between weaving and singing, hiding and revealing, the performers trace fragile ways of staying visible while searching for where their voices come from and where they might belong. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1395,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"class_list":["post-1396","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankfurt-lab.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankfurt-lab.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankfurt-lab.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankfurt-lab.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankfurt-lab.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}