The Moira are people who mourn on behalf of others, managing loss through an intimate form of labor. caner looks at the Moira, the service economy, emotional labor, migrant labor, and performative work in order to examine grief as a physical experience, incorporating their own experiences as a German-Turkish person and memories of their grandmother's ritual farewell.

How is this form of work connected to the performance economy on stage and in the theatre? How do we create spaces for mourning, and who mourns what? In the black box, Julia, Élie and caner challenge traditional spatial hierarchies in relation to the audience. They (and we) question how the physical expression of loss influences emotional processes and makes them visible. Here, mourning is understood as the agreement to undergo a transformation involving everyone present as active witnesses, with an open-ended outcome.

about

caner teker is a survivor, supporter, and choreographer. Their performances explore themes of parasitism, transformation, and autobiographical worldmaking. By manipulating space, time and the body, they create images that convey personal experiences beyond queerness and post-migrant identity. caner presents for the very first time in Brussels.

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