BETONIA is a project, which explores contemporary identity in former Eastern Block countries in relation to the architectural heritage - residential blocks from panels. Today many people in Eastern Europe live in houses created during the Soviet period, but their worldview and ideological component are already developing in a different environment. In this situation, they form new urban rituals, practices and meanings. Urban policy, construction industry, human relations shaped by the prefabricated housing estate are topics of my interest. The project involves travelling along some countries of the former Iron Curtain (incl. Poland, Slovakia, East Germany, Georgia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus etc) By juxtaposing residents’ social rituals from different countries and movement along the so called sleeping districts, I am looking for a comprehensive understanding whether there is a mutual identity formed by prefabricated houses. What are the differences in each of the country and yet what forms a unique identity. I integrate printed on curtains block houses from one country in another and check whether the manipulated through me real space is similar to the printed one, brought from abroad. The fascinating interplay between architecture, community dynamics, and the lived experiences of individuals within these urban landscapes I reflect with the help of the dancers and created ‘human moving sculptures’. Discipline of the body holds significant importance of the concept of power. Just as we structure and maneuver our bodies, the state's ideology extends its influence over the urban space and the people who reside within it. The idea for BETONIA stemmed from my interest in the complexity of identity shaped under different ideological systems, urban policy and is the attempt to understand my own experience leaving in one of the Soviet republics and my love/hate relation to its block heritage.