CONTEMPORARY SOLO PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL

LÄBU

Linia Maternă

by

ANA TRIF
Romania

Author and performer: ANA TRIF
Visual tutor: ANITA KREMM
Lighting design: ROMMI RUTTAS and LEON ALLIK
Technical support: DANIEL ORTIZ AMEZQUITA
Dramaturgical support: SANDRA KÜPPER and GIACOMO VERONESI
Thank you: Darja Goldberg, Marina Karpova, David Komlev
Producers: JÜRI NAEL and ANNIKA ÜPRUS
Production: CPPM | Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
Premiere: 12 September 2025 Kanuti Gildi SAAL

Towards what are you looking, when you don’t know where you’re going, if not where you’re coming from?

Linia Maternă (The Mother Line) is an investigation on the physical weight of memory and the materiality of memories, that takes the shape of a journey across one’s own family tree. It deals with the transgenerational heritage and its composition, from migrations to crafts, from stories to duties. It’s a conditioned and unconditional testimony of love, an attempt at trying to ease the weight of the stones that we accumulate and carry in the quest of finding a place to settle in, a place to call home.

Ana Trif

Ana Trif is a Romanian performer and maker. She is formally trained as a stage actress in Romania and Italy; currently a CPPM student at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Her research focuses on individual memory and memories; her language is a sensual-sour blend of personal and archetypal, trigger warnings disguised as innocent testimonies and Balkan aesthetics.