In this article, Sonja Kuftinec claims that playing with borders, dramaturgically, ethnically, or geographically is never permanent, not completely statisfying. This kind of play reveals the possibility for transgression, for remapping, for revelation and cohesion. Kuftinec looks at the former Yugoslavia, where ethnic identity has been recently redefined, from the perspective of the performance process to understand how the community constructs and the individual enacts ethnicity, and how the individuals relation to a more narrowly defined ethnic community can expand. In order to examplify the elusive and essential nature of ethnicity, Kuftinec uses examples from her dramaturgical and directorial work with youth in Bosnia between 1996 – 1998.