15/10 €
The audience will receive a fanzine by Anajara Amarante at the end of the show. The number of these magazines is limited. If you would like to be sure to receive one, please contact Anjara Amarante directly by email at asanactoflove@gmail.com.
It is compulsory to wear an FFP2 mask. Exceptions are made for visitors who are unable to wear an FFP2 mask for health/physical reasons and for visitors who communicate in sign language.
Flamboyant and butch queen, cripped and queer: Butching Cowboys celebrates a new body norm. Anajara Amarante takes the audience into their queer version of South American surrealism and creates entire dance landscapes out of it. On stage, the performers free themselves from everything in which they feel like “Fremdkörper” or "weird bodies" – the symbols, clothing and doctor’s offices –, and also leave behind learned and imposed behaviors. Closely connected to the artists, the audience experiences a crescendo evening that is both visual protest and ritual celebration. Grief and anger about a society in which a multitude of bodies still find no place become a new way of self-empowerment here.
ANAJARA AMARANTE is a chronically ill, queer Brazilian artist. Their main media of work is the moving body. Their professional interests are personal and political: queer, dissident bodies, marginalized communities and art practices. Their main artistic practice is concentrated in the field of performing arts (focus choreography), with previous formations in Biology and Communication. As a Brazilian living in Europe, Anajara is interested in immigrant people, the construction of their identities, and post-colonialism, as well as the construction of joy, inclusion, and diversity.
TIZO ALL is a queer BIPOC artist with a strong wish for social justice. Tizo´s artistic work is a place of collision, meeting the individual and the collective simultaneously.
MARC PHILIPP GABRIEL is a Berlin based performance artist working with body, voice, installation, video and architecture from the perspective of dance and movement.
SUZANNE STAVAST is a Berlin based artist with a BA in Anthropology. Their interest goes around performance art to translate their observations about society.
September 15 16 17
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE, STAGE DESIGN Anajara Amarante PERFORMANCE, CHOREOGRAPHY ASSISTANCE Tizo All LIGHT, STAGE DESIGN Marc Philipp Gabriel COSTUMES, ASSISTANCE PRODUCTION, Performance Suzanne Stavast VIDEO ASSISTANCE Besire Paralik VIDEO EDITING Ana Cichowicz SOUND DESIGN Judith Retzlik
A production by Anajara Amarante in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. The festival Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer is supported by funds from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe - Open Sector Funding. Media partner: taz, die tageszeitung.