1. Something Happens at Soda Works Festival, 2017

Evgenia Chetvertkova (2), Liadain Herriot (1), Deva Schubert (3) technical support Diego Agullo
Audiences are invited to take place on the stage. Flowers are hanging from the ceiling and a chair under each of them. There are scissors and a picture instruction under each chair, encouraging visitors to take the following steps. The audience's motion creates the environment for a dance performer to appear and intervenes her dance in their actions. The first performer has prepared dance etudes. The second performer is responsible for interactions with the audience and the choreographic material of the first one The third performer has agency to join the dance when she feels like.

2. Something Happens as solo dance performance in Acud Theater, March 2018

I sell tickets for the performance by myself, engaging the audiences in small talks to “break the iсe”. I handle them 2 envelopes with  written score and assignement to open them, when they enter the theatre space. After this job is done, I let them in and leave by themselves for a while. 

The next time I enter I start my dance improvisation from the ambience they created there.  Each time I try to find individual connection to each of the audiences. Shared presence becomes a starting poing to facilitate a shared action/game. The actions are supported by sound and lights.



Performed by Evgenia Chetvertkova Sound by Wissam Sader, Farah Hazim Lights and technical support by Michiyasu Furutani

3. Something Happens, Budějovický Majáles, Budweis, 2018

The performance was created during 10 days resicence supported by PERFORMANCZE EXCHANGED  programme and Kredance collective.

The audience is invited to the traditional theatre space. They take their seats in the house. The lights go down. After couple of minutes of silence they can notice an envelope coming dowun from the ceiling to the stage.  Is it a silent invitation? Who will dare to come to the stage to pick it up?

There are several activities and games prepared for the visitors: karaoke, a bucket of whater and a shampoo,  a roap, a wig, a microphone, a possibility to take a walk around theatre building during the performance. 

The activities are not scheduled, there are no clear invitation and explanations to each of them. There are two performers who have the agency to interwine their actions or “dance” into the actions or motions of the audience. Performers are alowed to  slightly fasilitate any prepared activity when they feel the enegy dropped down and nothing happens.
All the activities are supported by real time sound compositions of 2 musitians and a light designer.



Created and performed by Evgenia Chetvertkova, Michiyasu Furutani, Hanna Kritten Tangsoo, Farah Hazim, Wissam Sader.

5. Something Happens as a subversive solo intervention in theatre space, Amalgam SoloFest, Ackerstadt Palast, Berlin, 2018

I presented my actions in between of performances of other 5 performers in a way to produce confusion in performers and the audiences.  My task was to “make something happen” so I tried to go against expectations and of theatre practice according following rules:  make no difference between the rehearsal and the performance, perform during the break, perform everywhere but not on stage, If you are on stage  do actions, which usually count not as a performance and turn them into performative, perform in the place where no one can see you, dont perform when you are observed

6. Something Happens as a lecture performance,  MA SODA Research Presentation, Uferstudios, Berlin, 2018

the text

Lecture and performance Evgenia Chetvertkova
Sound design Wizard Ashdod
Lights Michiasu Furutani
Technical support Nikola Pieper