Harvest Of Woman
A performance of clay, memory, and myth
Coming to Portland, Oregon in fall of 2026…
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The performance builds a sensory world where clay, light, and sound seem to breathe around the body—an atmosphere that feels near and weighty. It unfolds like a half-remembered fable, guided by archetypes that feel both ancient and modern, yet remain unnamed.
Audiences are drawn into a space that is both familiar and strange, where movement becomes a tool for storytelling, echoing myths we can’t quite place but somehow recognize.
45-minute run
Trigger warning: flashing lights, smoke, extended moments of darkness, and use of a bullwhip.
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Coming to Portland, Oregon in fall of 2026…
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🌾 Experimental Film by Jason Okamoto —
now in production, extending the mythic landscape of Harvest of Woman and opening new paths for its unfolding.
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🌾 December 2025
Harvest of Woman in Seattle — Base: Experimental Arts + Space🌾 July 4–6, 2025
Harvest of Woman – CoHo Theater, Portland
Part of the CoHo Residency Showcase🌾 June 29, 2025
I Will Carry It for You – Pop-up Installation, Portland
Live clay installation at local markets🌾 April 10–13, 2025
Harvest of Woman – Fertile Ground Festival, Portland
Early workshop performanceHarvest of Woman continues to evolve.
New performance dates will be announced soon.
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Interviews and Articles
“A haunting solo work shaped by silence, clay, and deep ancestral echoes... Harvest of Woman invites us into an intimate world of transformation and memory, where the unspoken becomes visible.”
— Dmae Lo Roberts, Stage & Studio – Oregon ArtsWatch
⟶ Read the whole interview here
“Immersive and enigmatic… thrilling and terrifying… a rare opportunity to glimpse a work still alive in its making.” - Krista Garver, BroadwayWorld
- Krista Garver, BroadwayWorld
«Живые сосуды из глины на сцене становятся образом женщин. Через архетипы и фольклор спектакль раскрывает то, что обычно остается невидимым — внутреннюю форму памяти, труда и трансформации.» — из интервью с Ольгой Щербаковой для Slavic Radio (2025)
As part of Harvest of Woman, an immersive performance built around ritual, endurance, and emotional inheritance, Renée’s clay installation acts as a tactile threshold—inviting audiences to cross from an external world into something internal, instinctual, and raw. The clay remembers what the body cannot say. It cracks. It softens. It holds. And it waits to be touched.
FROM THE AUDIENCE
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“Immersive and dark, yet extremely generous with the warmth of creation and intention, this interdisciplinary work (in its formative stage) delves deeply into the embodiment of a woman’s walk in the world. You’ll walk away astounded by Olga’s craft and the delivery of what you’ve just witnessed.”
– Nicole Lane, Fertile Ground Festival
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“It didn’t feel like I was just an observer. I was inside it.”
“It brought up feelings I don’t often let out.”
“It stayed with me.”
“I couldn’t shake it.”
“Like stepping into a dream.”– Audience reflections.
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“I wasn’t just watching a play, I was walking into a world—past dripping clay pots, into fog, and then right into the act of creation itself. I’ve spent years going to theater, but this showed me something new—a kind of theater I hadn’t realized I could connect to.”
– Shared after the show
Creators
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Duma Du
- Set & Costume Designer
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Olga Kravtsova
- Creator & Performer
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Jason Okamoto
- Eyes, Sound, Video
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Gabi Polsinelli
- Production Assistant
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Piper Tuor
- Stage Manager
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K.C.Renée
- Ceramic & Installation Artist
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![A woman with pale makeup and red hair tied back, dressed in dark period clothing, is crawling on the ground on her hands and knees with a distressed expression, near a silver tray holding a milk bottle and two glasses, in a dark setting.]()
Maid
She is the one… who kept the house alive with invisible hands, and who finally lets it fall.
photo by Chritie Zhao
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![A woman with an anxious or fearful expression, reaching out with both hands in a dark environment, illuminated from the front.]()
Blind
She is the one… who sitting with the fear of what may never arrive.
Photo by Jason Okamoto
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![Woman with red hair wearing a white dress and a red apron holding a tray with a cake shaped like a rabbit's head, on a dark stage.]()
Potter
She is the one… who shapes grief and memory into clay, molding what words cannot hold.
Photo by Jason Okamoto
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![Performer on stage in dark costume with galaxy-like patterns, crouching on one knee, lit by blue stage light.]()
Fish Woman
She is the one… who swims through forgotten dreams, carrying the weight of drowned voices.
Photo by Jason Okamoto
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![A woman with long red hair, wearing a white dress, sitting on a wooden chair on stage, holding a small object, with a metal bucket in front of her, and blue curtains in the background.]()
Mother
She is the one… who builds a life from scraps of hope, whispering to what is not yet born.
Photo by Jason Okamoto
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![Woman with outstretched arms in darkness, illuminated by a single spotlight, with a surprised or frightened facial expression.]()
Blind
She is the one… who listens to what others won’t see.
Photo by Jason Okamoto
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![A woman with long reddish-brown hair sitting on a chair on a stage with dark curtains in the background, smiling and holding a prop knife.]()
Mother
She is the one… who peels, feeds, and vanishes.
Photo by Jason Okamoto
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![A woman crouches low to the ground, holding a tray with a brass bowl, in a forest setting during daytime. Several people are in the background, some holding umbrellas and wearing casual clothing.]()
I'ill carry it for you
From Living Installation
Photo by Serge Sedov
Interview with Olga Kravtsova about the idea behind “I will carry it for you” — a participatory ritual and installation created as part of Harvest of Woman. Audience members contributed anonymous notes, sewn into a growing tapestry of shared experience.
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Dnot as a fully told tale, but as a silent pulse—an elegy of memory and creation beneath the surface. It lives in the hands that shape clay, the vessels that crack and hold, and in the mute ritual of form itself. The Potter stands at the edge of drought: she molds memory into shape, retrieving what’s been lost, shaping hope out of absence.
Within the performance, the fable offers both anchor and echo—giving dimension to the archetypes that follow, and offering a vessel for untold stories. It reframes labor as ritual, fragility as endurance. Here, the audience is not told the story, but invited to sense it in the weight of shadow, vessel, and movement.
If the sensory world of Harvest of Woman resonates with you—your curiosity, creative impulse, or intuitive spark— we welcome new conversations and collaborations. Please reach out.
We would love to connect.
Development & Support:
Harvest of Woman was developed through residencies, grants, and public engagement.
The project began with CoHo Theater residency (Jan–July 2025). It was supported by Grow Grant, received production support from the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC), and was first shown as a work-in-progress at Fertile Ground Festival 2025. Harvest of Woman is also fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas.
© 2024–2025 Olga Kravtsova. All rights reserved.
*Harvest of Woman* is an original performance work conceived, written, and created by Olga Kravtsova. All associated texts, imagery, design elements, and recorded media are protected under U.S. copyright law.