Artemis in the mirror is a performance dedicated to a woman as a bearer of naturalness, which is one of our last bonds with the nature.

Even maternal instincts are concealed under civilization’s veils the society affirms that all this is a superstition or incorrectly tamed emotionalism.

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With a fragility of a virgin and a vindictiveness of the queen of the hunt, Artemis is looking at the mirror, and like the audience, she can see herself not only from both sides, but also   on the whole.



The performance is a tribute to this beautiful goddess, who is inside each and every woman.

Artemis is the goddess of the nature, moon, fertility and hunt. She is protecting women and mothers giving birth.
The goddess, who hides many paradoxes inside herself - she is the goddess of fertility yet she is a virgin, surrounded by virgins alone. She protects pregnant women, yet she has never become a mother herself, because she decided so.
This beautiful goddess is surrounded by deer and takes cruel revenge if she is seen naked by a man. With a bow on her shoulder, she looks like an Amazon; her beauty is like Aphrodite’s.
Maybe that is why Artemis and her twofold relationship with maternity (a negation and at the same time a devotion) is the closest one between Greek mythology and the contemporary modern woman.

With a bow, a today's woman is marching to fight for her own destiny of naturalness to be or not to be a mother.
She doubts whether she should complete the destiny given to her by nature and in her heart she struggles between the instinct and the reason. The reason is justifying feelings and is on the top of the instinct, but it also creates fear - the fear of responsibility and loosing liberty. The conflict inside the woman, her erotic desire and a natural necessity and at the same time, social rules and necessity to reflect and decide with distance makes her body convulse. Artemis has actually hiding two goddesses inside her- the dark, wild, impatient and intense one and the delicate, lucid, pure and good one. Through the balance between instinct and reason she reaches her divine essence.

Although Artemis, as a goddess with human attributes is the initial point of this solo, she appears and disappears during the show and in the end her presence is only symbolic.

Virgin and yet guardian of maternity, she comes into my dreams with subconscious images, leading me to the archetype explanation and mythology. The scene is built around my dreams images and visions I have to face on the stage and which at the end have a simple denouement. Like in every woman’s subconscious world, there is a storm in my mind. The battle of naturalness is a symbol of our last chance to be mothers and our capacity to create and give a birth. And even more – our capacity to live naturally and spontaneously, show our emotions and listen to and go by our instincts that are most of the time completely forgotten.