ALCHEMY OF HISTORY
Listening for the third side of the river
A performance ritual with and for rivers, as a practice of being together with the possibility of a pre-performance workshop-gathering.
performance, site-specific performance, workshop
SAT 12.09.2026
6:00pm — 8:15pm
Premiere
Trauerhalle Friedhof Westhausen Kollwitzstraße 27, 60488 Frankfurt a.M.
Postcard with a white background and a blue line that resembles the course of a river. The title is written in the lower right corner, and the names of the participating artists are listed on the left side.
Information on accessibility
Are content notes provided for the audience in advance?
A workshop is offered prior to the performance, as an onboarding to the topics of the work.
The venue does not have accessibility measures
As we search for the pajé, we hear different versions of the same story. The pajé is approaching the end of their life, yet their knowledge points toward the beginning of another future.We move forwardbackward and we look abovebelow. In the forest, nothing is as it seems. The deeper we listen for the third side of the river, the louder we hear the voices of our own memories and origins: the Andes, Agrafa, and Isandlwana. The boundaries between these places dissolve into the contours of the water. From corporeal cosmologies, a song emerges – one that returns the water to the jungle and the soil to the mountain. The pajé may have passed. But perhaps we have already reached the third side of the river: a place we create together, one that exists only for as long as we remain there with one another.
Concept/Project initiator: Diana De Fex
By and with: Maria Tsitroudi, kemelo nozipho sehlapelo, Diana De Fex
Dramaturgy/outside eye: Nargess Behrouzian, Joana Ferraz, Nina DeLudemann
With the support of Leipzig Kulturamt, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Frankfurt Kulturamt, Kubeo and galerie KUB
