If you want a better life, you must live a better life!

In the Bulgarian-German co-production A BETTER LIFE, the three choreographers and performers Iva Sveshtarova, Willy Prager and Martin Stiefermann ask what a better life can be like, what we would have to do to achieve it and explore the topic of constant mobility and inconstancy. The performance A BETTER LIFE is a based on the research project LUXUS-WEG, a coproduction between the performance group MS Schrittmacher from Berlin and ACT Association for Independent Theatre from Sofia, funded by the Szenenwechsel (Change of Scene) program of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and ITI German Centre. The research focused on German senior citizens living in old-age poverty immigrating to Bulgaria and young Bulgarians coming to Germany to work in the medical and health care sector and raised questions about the motivation, development and significance of these movements. What would we give up for better living standards and luxury? What does “a better life” actually mean today? When are we ready to trade social capital for material capital? A BETTER LIFE is a performance created from the essence of the research and deals with the topic of the constant dream of a better life. It is about possibilities, about fears, wishes and desires, about freedom and about a society where everything is always in motion.

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