Giving back the Blessings moves between a club night, a folk ritual, and an industrial landscape. Vogueing gestures, Slavic dance traditions, and everyday movements intertwine into a shared choreography without a center. Sound precedes movement, acting as an equal force that permeates and shapes the space. In the haze, bodily contours dissolve and the boundaries between performers and audience begin to blur. Everything remains in flux—bodies, light, objects, and sound. Alina Belyagina’s performance opens a space between resistance, care, and radical hope, culminating in a khorowod/kolo, al collective circle dance that invites a choice: to join, to surrender fully, or to remain at the edge. What emerges is a circulating legacy—shared, unstable, and alive.
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ZIRKA
Dachauer Str.110c
80636 München
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- without language
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credits
Concept and Choreography: Alina Belyagina
Dance: Veronika Tikhonova, Daniela Hanelová , Tamara Briks, Camila Mos, Alina Belyagina
Sound: Dominik Lekavski
Lighting: Rainer Ludwig
Dramaturgy: Kinga Szemessy
Movement Advisor: Camila Mos
Costume Design: Anya Chaika
production
Supported by the Department of Culture of the City of Munich and the BLZT – Bavarian State Association for Contemporary Dance, with funding from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts. Created in collaboration with Lothringer 13 Halle, Schloss Bröllin, and accueil studio K3 Tanzplan Hamburg.


biographies
Alina Belyagina is a Munich-based choreographer, performer, and facilitator. Born in Ukraine and raised between Western Siberia and Berdychiv, her artistic practice is shaped by questions of place, multilingualism, and feminist dramaturgy. Her works combine movement with sound, text, video, fashion, and post-internet aesthetics to create a raw, sensual, and politically charged choreographic language. Internationally exhibited and supported, she develops projects between Munich, Hamburg, and Eindhoven.
Content-Notes
Loud music and strobe lighting will be used. Darkness and stage fog may cause disorientation.
Immersive situation: The audience moves freely throughout the space. The venue can be left and re-entered at any time.
Seating can be provided upon request.
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