Emigrant Songs is a research project exploring voice as a vessel of memory, longing, and belonging. Rooted in Ukrainian folk singing traditions, it reimagines folklore as a living, evolving form. It asks how bodies carry stories across time and borders, how singing can become a way of remembering, and how fragments of the memory can be re-woven into something tender and new. Investigating the singing of exile and resilience, the project searches for new ways to connect with cultural memory and reflect on what it means to live between places. Emigrant Songs seeks to blur the lines between body and voice, personal and political, tradition and contemporary practices — ultimately asking what the voice still remembers when home is far away.

Nastya Dzyuban moves in, within and around fields of dance and choreography. She was born in Kyïv, Ukraine, and currently lives in Frankfurt. Nastya has been developing her artistic practice and creating performative work since 2015, mostly in collaboration with close friends and colleagues. She is interested in interfaces of theatre and choreography as well as in topics such as migration and home and in practices of building common(s). Her work was shown at festivals in Kyïv, Frankfurt, Bochum and Mannheim. In 2021, Nastya was the "Danceweb" scholarship holder. In 2023 she has completed MA studies in Choreography and Performance in Gießen and is currently working as an independent artist, choreographer, dancer, performer, dramaturge, organizer, curator, mediator, assistant. And more.