‘Pulling the Trigger’ by Daria Titova

Everything looks familiar, yet something feels wrong. The body has returned home, but the mind has not. While the body is present, memory moves on its own, triggered by a sound too loud, a gesture too sudden, a stranger’s face. Ordinary moments fracture as time folds in on itself.

Pulling the Trigger is a solo performance at the crossroads of dance and physical theatre, created by Daria Titova and performed by Marko Šakić. The work follows a soldier confronted with his past, unable to fully face it, yet unable to escape it.

Through movement, text, and voice, the piece becomes an intimate encounter with memory, responsibility, and the weight of irreversible choices. Shifting between control and collapse, stillness and explosion, Pulling the Trigger explores what it truly means to “pull the trigger,” both literally and metaphorically. It asks whether such choices can ever be understood—and whether a choice ever truly existed at all.

Concept, direction, choreography – Daria Titova (in collaboration with Marko Šakić)
Performance – Marko Šakić
Text – Aska Hayakawa
Music & sound design – Ilya Dziahel
Voiceover artist – Kristian de Carvalho
Costume design – Sarah Zechut
Dramaturgy – Hans Timmerman
Movement coach – Katarzyna Sitarz

Made possible by Stichting Janivo, Voordekunst and Het Cultuurfonds Zuid-Holland.

Tuesday | February 10 | 20:15
Het Wennekerpand | Vijgensteeg 2, Schiedam