Germany/Belgium, 2025

Through funding from the Next Steps program at the Crespo Foundation, we will continue our research into mourning the more than human world.

“Veltroyer” is a performative mourning ritual that draws on traditional Jewish and Iranian practices to mourn the loss of more-than-human worlds. The project is the result of an ongoing collaboration between Raha Dehghani Vinicheh, Anna Lublina, and Jerry Lieblich. In 2023, they explored Jewish mourning rites as part of a residency at ID_Tanzhaus Frankfurt and developed a collective ritual themselves, which included obituaries for extinct bird species in poem form. Together with new collaborators, they will now continue their research into ecological grief incorporating Persian mourning rituals and traditions. The results will flow into the conception of a dance piece.