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