This artistic collaboration explores memory, identity, rediscovering oneself, and the female experience in contemporary society. Women as artists, mothers, and creators embody both resilience and beauty while navigating the challenges of their multiple roles. Through movement, high heels, and ecological fur coats, the work examines the absurdity of expectations placed on women to balance responsibilities while maintaining beauty and elegance.

The fur coats become powerful metaphors for disguise, warmth, refuge, and the burden of carrying too much. They explore the animal within us, revealing primal instincts, hidden desires, and the tension between our wild nature and social constructs of status and value. Through textured landscapes and the interplay between what is visible and unseen, the work invites audiences to reflect on the forces shaping our identities beneath the surface.

Another central theme is “emptiness,” approached not as an absence but as fertile ground for discovery. Through curiosity, playfulness, and a willingness to embrace humour and contradiction, two distinct yet interconnected female artistic voices explore new physical and emotional possibilities.

The work also reflects on the fragility of personal memory, weaving together fragments of childhood, motherhood, separation from homeland, fleeting joys, and everyday images. Like an endless social media scroll, these moments emerge unexpectedly, forming an incomplete yet emotionally resonant picture of who we are. The performance questions how we reconstruct our identities from these fragments and the stories we choose to tell ourselves and others.

About the artists

Anna Ozerskaia (SE)
Anna Ozerskaia is a choreographer, performer, movement creator and educator based in Sweden. After more than a decade performing with GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, Skånes Dansteater and Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, she continues to explore the boundaries of contemporary dance through choreography, teaching and collaborative projects.

Her choreographic work spans stage productions, solo performances and dance film, with a strong focus on movement research and physical expression. Anna works as a guest teacher with leading dance institutions, sharing her expertise in floor work, improvisation, contact work and ballet.

Ekaterina Shushakova (IT)
Ekaterina Shushakova is a dancer, choreographer and teacher with an international career in contemporary dance. She has performed with renowned companies including Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, GöteborgsOperans Danskompani and Ballet Basel, collaborating with acclaimed choreographers and contributing to a wide range of influential stage productions.

Alongside her performance practice, Ekaterina develops her own choreographic work, leads workshops and teaches internationally. Her work spans contemporary dance, repertoire, creative research and interdisciplinary collaborations, including dance film and performance within visual art installations.