Double Bill: BuryaK / Hierna zal ik een berg zijn... een simpele kutberg

Ida Osten (AT) & Sofiia Butiaga (UA) / Eva Nova Gebbinck

Sat 25 Oct ’25 and Sun 26 Oct ’25

Two physical narratives about how heritage binds and breaks.

Sat 25 Oct ’25

and

Sun 26 Oct ’25

Sat 25 Oct ’25

20:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 4

Past event
Sun 26 Oct ’25

20:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 4

Past event

This double bill presents two graduation performances. The evening begins in Frascati 4, where two bodies become inextricably entangled. Afterwards, in Frascati 2, we witness a woman locking herself in a bathroom, determined to lose herself. What does it mean to want to break free from where you come from? And what if you simply can’t exist without the other?

BuryaK - Ida Osten & Sofiia Butiaga

Beetroot. BuryaK. The unsung hero of Eastern European cuisine. Bleeds like a wound, stains like regret, tastes like home.

This duet navigates the uneasy terrain between autonomy and oppression, questioning what binds us and how we can move forward. As two women growing up in Ukraine and Austria we are still dependent on each other. No matter if we want it or not. A chain links their bodies, both metaphor and material. Is it a tether of trust or a kinky Cold war souvenir?

They are navigating through the reality of systemic forces. Drawing on the symbolic power of the beetroot, tempting and resilient. The performers explore how external systems and internalized beliefs shape the way we live, move, and relate. In the ritual of the renown dish ‘Borscht’ we see not just sustenance, but memory. We become each other’s mirror and refuge.

They feed and wash one another. They nourish each other.

Hierna zal ik een berg zijn… een simpele kutberg - Eva Gebbinck

A young woman has locked herself in the bathroom. She’s never coming out again. After this, she will be a mountain… a simple fucking mountain.

The young woman Hera has locked herself in the bathroom. Her mother bangs on the door: "HERA, open up!" Hera’s not going to open the door. She’s just fine in here. Hera wants to become something else. Something better. As long as she no longer resembles herself… maybe a horse… a manic hatter… or simply a mountain, a simple fucking mountain.

This performance is based on Eva’s personal experience with transgenerational trauma. Through her alter ego Hera, she tries to break free from her dominant mother, with cold hot dogs, a pink bath mat, butts, vomit, and folk music from a hamburger mug.

Duration: BuryaK 45 mins. / Hierna zal ik een berg zijn… een simpele kutberg 25 mins.
Language: BuryaK language no problem / Hierna zal ik een berg zijn… een simpele kutberg Dutch

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About the makers

Ida Osten is a choreographer, performer and dancer from Vienna, Austria. She studied in the Contemporary Urban Dance Department of Fontys Academy of the Arts. As a maker Ida works across independent and Company environments within live performance, film and contemporary theatre. Exploring the body as a medium for engagement with societal dynamics, her works have been shown in contexts ranging from club culture and exhibition spaces to theater festivals. Her artistic interest lies in the reflection of sociopolitical contexts, the questioning of normative structures, and the creation of performative spaces that challenge both individual experience and collective perception. Sofiia Butiaga is a Ukrainian dancer, performing artist, and choreographer based in Stockholm. After graduating from the Fors Dance School in Ukraine, Sofiia fled to Sweden, where she continued her education at the Royal Swedish Ballet School. Since then, she has danced with ILyong, Holstebro Dance Company, and Dans Spira Extended. She currently works as a freelance artist and studies Dance Performance at the Stockholm University of the Arts.

Eva Gebbinck is an actress and theatre maker. In 2025, she graduated from the acting program at the Utrecht School of the Arts with her performance “After this, I will be a mountain… a simple fucking mountain.” Eva creates work based on personal material and confronts her audience with humor and boldness.