"Suitcases"
What experiences are packed in your suitcase? What journey has it taken you on? What will you choose to keep inside, and what will you try to leave behind? Who will you and your suitcase meet along the way—and how will that encounter change your life? And the most important question: Is moving a tragedy, or simply a step into a new life? Is it necessary for personal growth, or just something that happens?
"Suitcases" is a physical theater performance where artists share personal migration stories through circus arts. Using acrobatics, juggling, diabolo, and contemporary dance, we create an emotional space for dialogue about relocation and finding a new home.
Three performers explore their own journeys, asking: What will I discover in my suitcase? Will these discoveries help me build a new life—or leave me frozen in anticipation?
What experiences are packed in your suitcase? What journey has it taken you on? What will you choose to keep inside, and what will you try to leave behind? Who will you and your suitcase meet along the way—and how will that encounter change your life? And the most important question: Is moving a tragedy, or simply a step into a new life? Is it necessary for personal growth, or just something that happens?
"Suitcases" is a physical theater performance where artists share personal migration stories through circus arts. Using acrobatics, juggling, diabolo, and contemporary dance, we create an emotional space for dialogue about relocation and finding a new home.
Three performers explore their own journeys, asking: What will I discover in my suitcase? Will these discoveries help me build a new life—or leave me frozen in anticipation?
"Suitcases" performance is primarily created for adult audiences and contains loud, sudden sounds, as well as themes that require a certain maturity to process.
At the same time, we believe in the importance of discussing serious topics with children and recommend it for children and teenagers aged 10 and older.
Some younger children who are comfortable with sudden loud sounds also successfully watch our performance. However, please note that this is not a traditional children's circus show. The decision about attendance for younger children always remains with the parents.
BERLIN, 31 MAY
Theater im Delphi
Gustav-Adolf-Str. 2
Theater im Delphi
Gustav-Adolf-Str. 2
And what has life put in your Suitcase?
Arina
In my suitcase I would like to put: my favorite talisman toy, a mug from which it tastes best to drink, a large blanket, a painted brick wall that I pass every day, a cozy kitchen, the very day when my cheeks hurt from smiling, my friends, my favorite coffee shop, family. “You have excess baggage”, I will hear at the airport. And I will go with one backpack - towards a new stage of life.
George
What important things are in your “suitcase”?
Memories, toys, feelings, ghosts of the past, hopes for the future, living in the present, light or heavy?
Can you control it all or is it better to relax and let go?
Do you need to let go of the past to move on, or is it strangling you with a rope?
Memories, toys, feelings, ghosts of the past, hopes for the future, living in the present, light or heavy?
Can you control it all or is it better to relax and let go?
Do you need to let go of the past to move on, or is it strangling you with a rope?
Vladimir
When you run away, you don't know what to take with you. You want to take everything and nothing.
It's not you packing your suitcase, it's your fear, panic, and intuition. Intuition is the most important thing, because you don't know what you will need on this unplanned trip.
And maybe in a few weeks you will be saved by a ping pong ball with messages written by someone important to you who is now far away. But if you packed your suitcase in time, you're already lucky!
It's not you packing your suitcase, it's your fear, panic, and intuition. Intuition is the most important thing, because you don't know what you will need on this unplanned trip.
And maybe in a few weeks you will be saved by a ping pong ball with messages written by someone important to you who is now far away. But if you packed your suitcase in time, you're already lucky!
tell US your story, HOW EMIGRATION HAS AFFECTED YOU
All stories will remain anonymous forever. They will be needed for research into the social changes associated with migration processes. Some stories may also be used anonymously in our performances or published in our library of migrant stories.
What should I write about?
There are no rules. Tell it like you would tell someone important to you what has changed for you personally. How your life has changed. There is something that you have inside, some emotion or some feeling, something that you can't forget, something new that has appeared inside.
Emigration affects everyone
What should I write about?
There are no rules. Tell it like you would tell someone important to you what has changed for you personally. How your life has changed. There is something that you have inside, some emotion or some feeling, something that you can't forget, something new that has appeared inside.
Emigration affects everyone
What should I write about?
There are no rules. Tell it like you would tell someone important to you what has changed for you personally. How your life has changed. There is something that you have inside, some emotion or some feeling, something that you can't forget, something new that has appeared inside.
Emigration affects everyone
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