Elina Masing & TÜVKA performance arts´ final course actors, choreographers and stage directors "Replica"

People often feel that they are talented, special, and extraordinary. Unfortunately, it often happens that there is no place in the world where that potential can be realized. What happens when our passion finds neither purpose nor acceptance? What happens when things do not turn out the way we want them to? That feeling is the starting point of this process. For the first time, I want to rely on a script that I have written myself. I am interested in resistance, spitefulness, and hostility as symptoms of bitterness. What happens in a space when these feelings are not hidden, but consciously kept visible?

It’s time, pull yourself together. Either you stop deceiving yourself and admit that not everything happens because of circumstances: because of childhood, an uncle, capitalism, or god. Or you end this story on a sad note, step away from your dreams, and little by little this happy, bitter bitterness turns into rigid bitterness.

It all began at the Tallinn Ballet School. Life was linear and uncompromising. In my final year of school, I realized the limitations of that field and instead found freedom of expression in performance art. During my university years, I completely opposed my earlier self: I shaved my head and peed into a jar on stage. I also created the musical alter ego White Girl and began acting. In the years after school, I have continued exploring different fields, choosing the form according to the content. I engage in activism and challenge rigid rules, and lately I have become increasingly interested in enjoying both the creative process and the artwork itself.

Together with: choreographers, directors, and actors in the performing arts programme at the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy, Marko Raat, Evelin Lagle, Levila