Hedera

In the organizer's words:

In Hedera, Sepidar follows the traces of resistance that lie hidden beneath the rubble - unheard, invisible and yet present. The starting point is the examination of forms of female resistance in contexts of war, genocide and oppression. The piece asks how memories of these struggles - often erased or repressed - can be experienced again through the body, voice, movement and music.

We move in the field of tension between loss and hope, powerlessness and empowerment, destruction and reconstruction. The body becomes the carrier of an embodied archive that bears traces of past and present struggles. In a barren, fragmented landscape - a wasteland between past and present - these traces become visible: through gestures, breath, sound and collective movements.

The material itself also becomes a player: we use elements that can be found in nature as well as in the rubble - sand, water, wood and other materials. These materials represent the debris, the past, the broken - and at the same time the living, changeable, constantly transforming. The confrontation with these physical elements creates a dialog between body and matter, between destruction and reconstruction.

Scenically, we approach the subject through physical-performative processes in which memories are not retold but re-embodied. The performers bring in their individual and collective experiences and thus create a space of shared remembrance, mourning, rituals, empowerment and celebration. Debris is not only understood as a sign of destruction, but also as a material from which new forms of cohesion emerge.

For us,Hedera is a poetic search for hidden resistance - for voices that have not been silenced, but continue to breathe beneath the surface and address the audience.