Berlin
Stories of resistance and resilience
The intersection between political theatre and popular culture, comedy and poetry as a refuge for subversion, the body communicating «between the lines», the urban society as a stage
Burkina Faso
Suka, Mouvements des Masques, in cooperation with Les Voix du Sables et des Glaces, the Ministry of Culture Burkina Faso and the Foreign Ministry Denmark
Decoding gender, female narratives, translating traditions, shifting perceptions, communicative resources opening participatory public spaces for change
Documentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yQqoIRvMg0
The Wild Hunt, Palermo, Potsdam
Commedia dell´Arte and the grotesque, a series of workshops and performances in cooperation with Herlaking, Sicily, Theater Nadi and the T- Werk, International Theatre Centre, Potsdam
The legend of the Wild Hunt as a paradigm for strategies of marginalisation; social and cultural codes of poverty and social exclusion and their theatrical translations; ; the history of body discourse and its traits in popular culture and the Commedia dell´Arte; Pierre Bourdieu´s concept of Habitus as a theatrical toolkit; grotesque aesthetic as an indicator for cultural transformation, grotesque bodies – vulnerability and resistance, political bodies – economy and desire
Summer school, mask making and performance, T- Werk, International Theatre Centre, Potsdam
Commedia dell´Arte and the grotesque in cooperation with Herlaking, Palermo
«Because laughing is proper to the man.»
F. Rabelais