CONTEMPORARY SOLO PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL

LÄBU

Waistland

by

ANETTE PÄRN
Estonia

Author and performer: ANETTE PÄRN
Scenographic support: ANITA KREMM
Lighting design: ROMMI RUTTAS and LEON ALLIK
Technical support: CLARISSE DEGENEFFE
Dramaturgical support: GIACOMO VERONESI, SANDRA KÜPPER, INGE IVASTE
Butoh guide: CHARIS TAPLIN
Recorded piano track: ELISABETH EGEL
Producers: JÜRI NAEL and ANNIKA ÜPRUS
Thank you: Võhma Community Centre, Piip and Tuut Theatre, Tabasalu Recycling Centre, Hildegard Reimann, and Oliver Reimann.
Production: CPPM | Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
Premiere: 13 September 2025 Kanuti Gildi SAAL

We are on a square meter of extraordinary life diversity, a place of remarkable gatherings in wildlife. We are surrounded by pristine nature, untouched by man; the Waistland celebrates the natural wonders that have remained.

What our eyes can capture here verges on the miraculous. In its natural habitat, we witness:
sheep, lambs, grains, money, sentimental objects, votes, goats, sins, lovers, fuckers, cars, sport cars, broken household appliances.

Waistland is a vital refuge for the species that are endangered elsewhere.

In its midst, a ten-year-old girl in white tights plays the world back into coherence.

And her language has not yet been taxed by war.

Anette Pärn

Anette Pärn (2001) is an Estonian artist and semiotician working across performance art, writing, and community engagement. Her current fascinations include broken, disregarded objects and the question of how to be a normal human.