"Desert(ed) Dreaming" is a sensory and poetic invitation to understand lack not as the end but the beginning of something and – amid global exhaustion – to imagine new ways of living together and create possible futures. Here the desert takes on multiple meanings: it evokes abandoned dreams and political drought while at the same time retaining the potential for change, caring and regeneration. Inspired by hydro-feminism, speculative fiction and ecological thinking, the piece explores processes of withdrawal, voiding, extraction and emaciation – physically, ecologically and biographically. How can a new imaginative power be drawn from absence? What can be created on a stage that has already been deserted and transformed itself into an intermediate space, a place of memories and visions of the future.What remains when we leave places, bodies and systems behind? In Desert(ed) Dreaming Katja Cheraneva and Viktorija Ilioska launch a choreographic search through their shared histories of migration between Russia, North Macedonia and Germany.
