Since the Euromaidan nine years ago, the brilliant Ukrainian music and performance group Dakh Daughters from Kiev has been internationally known. In their performance “Danse Macabre”, which was created shortly after the start of the Russian war of aggression, the six actresses and singers tell the stories of women from Ukraine: stories about the war in their everyday lives and their families, about how it has changed their relationship to life. The Dakh Daughters mix their virtuoso cross-genre compositions between ethno, punk, cabaret and vaudeville with personal stories – and not only depict the violence of a conflict in a very powerful way, but also appeal to humanity and solidarity.

There are six of them on stage. Six women artists, musicians, actors, Ukrainians. They face us. In order to resist, to fight, to continue to live, they recount the war and its nameless violence, the uprooting from their land, the exile, the unspeakable. With strength and vulnerability they tirelessly replay their departure and arrival, giving voice to those who remained behind.

Guided by the words of the Book of Job, woven with songs and music, testimonies and accounts of the war, Danse Macabre is a work imbued with the absolute urgency of the present time, of the unleashed news.