Ina Kurotschkin – What Remains When I Stop Performing Motherhood
My research explores motherhood as a social construct rather than a natural or purely private condition. I understand it as a system of cultural rules that shapes the body, organizes time, limits possibilities, and defines how a woman is expected to act, move, and be seen. This turns motherhood into a form of daily performance, where expectations from outside create pressure to fulfill specific roles and images. I am interested in questioning why we feel compelled to perform motherhood at all.
Through dance, I investigate how these norms are embodied and physically internalized by the maternal body. My choreographic practice does not aim to represent motherhood, but to interrupt, disrupt, and reject these restrictive patterns through movement. In this way, the body becomes a site of resistance and a space to imagine other ways of being. Inspired by the idea of an aesthetics of existence, I explore whether simply inhabiting the maternal body on one’s own terms can itself become an artistic and political act.
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