LÄBU VOL2 | EPISODE 4 | Ana Trif | Charis Tapin

Linia Maternă
by
ANA TRIF
Romania

Author and performer: ANA TRIF
Visual tutor: ANITA KREMM
Lighting design: ROMMI RUTTAS and LEON ALLIK
Technical support: DANIEL ORTIZ AMEZQUITA
Dramaturgical support: SANDRA KÜPPER and GIACOMO VERONESI
Music: Darja Goldberg, Marina Karpova, David Komlev
Producers: JÜRI NAEL and ANNIKA ÜPRUS
Production: CPPM | Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
Premiere: 12 September 2025 Kanuti Gildi SAAL

Towards what are you looking, when you don’t know where you’re going, if not where you’re coming from?

Linia Maternă (The Mother Line) is an investigation on the physical weight of memory and the materiality of memories, that takes the shape of a journey across one’s own family tree. It deals with the transgenerational heritage and its composition, from migrations to crafts, from stories to duties. It’s a conditioned and unconditional testimony of love, an attempt at trying to ease the weight of the stones that we accumulate and carry in the quest of finding a place to settle in, a place to call home.

Ana Trif is a Romanian performer and maker. She is formally trained as a stage actress in Romania and Italy; currently a CPPM student at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Her research focuses on individual memory and memories; her language is a sensual-sour blend of personal and archetypal, trigger warnings disguised as innocent testimonies and Balkan aesthetics.

A second silence even denser
by
CHARIS TAPLIN
United Kingdom

Author and performer: CHARIS TAPLIN
Scenography adviser: KSENIA VERBEŠTŠUK
Object adviser and animation: YIYANG SUN
Sound adviser: ANETTE PÄRN
Lighting design: ROMMI RUTTAS and LEON ALLIK
Technical support: LEAH GAYER and ANA TRIF
Production assistant: ELAR VAHTER
Dramaturgical support: GIACOMO VERONESI and SANDRA KÜPPER
Text: ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK
Thank you: Cecilia Macfarlane
Producers: JÜRI NAEL and ANNIKA ÜPRUS
Production: CPPM | Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
Premiere: 13 September 2025 Kanuti Gildi SAAL

A second silence even denser began from the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik, exploring abjection, queer desire and bodily estrangement. The work looks for a permeable skin between body, language and space that can scar, absorb, and be permeated; looking through the immateriality of language for new pathways for accessing the slimy, fleshy and sensual material density of the body.

While my solo draws broadly from Pizarnik’s poetry, prose, drawings, letters and biography—the piece as a whole is loosely structured around a collection titled ‘Four Tales.’ I am ‘translating’ these texts into movement scores based on the Butoh notation form known as ‘butoh-fu’; reflecting Pizarnik’s research into a sense of ‘spirit’, or of the ghostly, within language; influenced by Natsu Nakajima’s description of Butoh as ‘a conflict between language and the body’ that strives ‘to put into words that which cannot be put into words…to give form to that which is formless…,’ . Embodying the fragmented and hybrid portrayal of identity and selfhood within the writings, I travel through personas and alter-egos while introducing strands of narrative, biography and autobiography and the body as a vessel of appetite and emptiness, memory and poetry, repulsion and compulsion.

Charis Taplin is a physical performance maker from the United Kingdom, now based in Tallinn. With a background in dance and in literature, for the past three years her practise has largely centred around Butoh, whilst also directing, writing and exploring diverse stage disciplines with a particular interest in puppetry and object manipulation. Her work returns always to the performing body as a threshold where the polarities of sacred and profane, mystical and domestic, personal and collective, collapse.

LÄBU VOL2 is proudly part of the Tallinn Fringe Festival
Performer: Ana Trif Charis Taplin
Genre: contemporary performance
Language: English
Duration: 2 hours
Age suitability: 18+
Tickets: 15€ 10€
World premiere
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