CONSTELLATIONS OF ADRA (2026) | THEATRE

 

 

Constellations of Adra is a 10-minute physical theatre piece on the (un)making of landscape in southern Spain. Performed by anthropologists Katya Lachowicz and Rich Thornton, it stages a melting of political geographies and narrative threads to produce a composite terrain, where environments, bodies, and histories dissolve and reconfigure in real time. Drawing on Katya’s ethnographic fieldwork in Andalusia, which moves across time and the landscapes of coast and mountain, the performance weaves movement, soundscape, pause, and tension into a feral composition of 90s rave music, industrial exhaustion, and conflict. 

 

Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, fragmented narratives fuse, erode and twist across political faultlines to become (un)made as rural utopias, dystopias and techno-futures. Grounded in an evolving soundscape that shapes its rhythm and atmosphere; narratives are never allowed to settle. So too the flowing body on stage embraces accident and friction, caught between techno and birdsong, in the dynamic interplay of ethnographic threads.

 

Direction and Concept: Katya Lachowicz  

Contributing Performer: Rich Thornton 

Lighting and Technical Support: Pawilon Theatre Team 

The piece will be shown at the Ethnographic Salon during EASA2026 on Thursday, 23 July, alongside other performances from 19:30 to 22:00 at Pawilon, ul. Ewangelicka 1, Poznań.

Registration link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethnographic-salon-tickets-1991183529538?aff=oddtdtcreator

Venue information:
https://pawilon.org

See also our CAN network panel nr.157 at the EASA bi-annual conference in Poznań which presents a new cohort of theatre-worker anthropologists creating (auto)ethnographically informed theatrical interventions on the 24th July 2026 from 11:30-13:15 and 14:15-16:00 at Historicum, 3.106 where we take you on a journey to explore how physical theatre, object theatre, dance, and other forms of multimodal storytelling can open more inclusive horizons for anthropology and anthropologists!

 

    Above: Images from Constellations of Adra live on stage at the Pawilon Theatre July 2026