Future Ritual amplifies the enlivening and transformative potential of performance art. 

Against the alienation and fragmentation of contemporary life, Future Ritual creates and holds spaces for curious publics to gather, to think and to feel through place, desire, belief, loss and mystery.  

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Pianka Pärna. photo by Devika Bilimoria.

 Pianka Pärna

Curtain Call

a queer, post-soviet Live Art ballet

Pianka Pärna is joined by performers Wet Mess, Nando Messias and Claudia Palazzo with a live score by Leo Chapman. Set in a landscape where the traditions and discipline of ballet meet Eastern European folklore, Curtain Call inhabits a surreal landscape of grotesque ballet artists, exhausted with perfection and hungry for wildness.

Visceral and sensorial, Curtain Call explores oppression, liberation, occupation and independence as well as BDSM, queerness, authority and consent.  As bodies are cinched into PVC latex suits alongside headpieces referencing the baby-hungry Baba Yaga, pointe shoes and fetish-inflected ballet objects collide to create a world where classical beauty is deconstructed. 

Referencing both Slavic mythology and contemporary body culture and modification, the visual language of Curtain Call asks what perfection conceals and what it reveals.

Premieres November 2026 at CEREMONY, Future Ritual’s festival of performance art.

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Lead Artist: Pianka Pärna

Performers: Wet Mess, Nando Messias and Claudia Palazzo

Dramaturg: emilyn claid

Sound Design: Leo Chapman

Costume Design: Ewan Hindes

Design Consultant: Ash McNaughton

Producer: Regina Agard-Brathwaite for Future Ritual

Access Support: Rae Birchley

Press: Abstrakt 

Commissioned by Future Ritual and supported with public funds by Arts Council England.