Birch Sap

Venue: Arten Theatre (2 Lusinyants St.)
Time: 19:00
Price: 3000 AMD

In 2024, after graduating from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, Anton was conscripted for compulsory service in the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus.

Confronting the military system, Anton chose to treat his service as a space for acquiring new bodily experience — often complex and traumatic. His observations, regular physical practices, and reading led to the creation of this work, in which he shares this experience through a combination of military and contemporary dance.

Anton’s work invites reflection on how a person can exist within disciplinary systems, and whether it is possible to preserve one’s movement, one’s body, one’s will within them. How the body — even when subjected to a rigid structure — can become a space and a tool of personal freedom.

Author and performer: Anton Gusakovsky