Program

We begin the evening outside with Baque Flamingo, a percussion group founded in Amsterdam and dedicated to playing Maracatu de Baque Virado. Composed of members of diverse identities and backgrounds, Baque Flamingo cultivates a space of community, collectivity, and learning from Maracatu Nations, committed to supporting their ongoing manifestations and resistance. Their presence here is both a procession and a celebration of Afro-diasporic heritage.

Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla’s testimony stands alongside that of thousands of other Colombians who fled their country to save their lives. People who had no other choice than to leave their homeland after being threatened for their political beliefs. The performance creates a space of belonging through communities, people, and stories that resist the all-consuming necropolitics of capitalism.

Bio Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla is a Colombian-born choreographer and performance artist based in the Netherlands whose research-driven practice explores social justice, decolonial legacies and resistance through ritual, performance and visual work.

It is a piece for 12 dancers playing as a team, exposing their singularities to a common condition of performativity. A high-speed dance of custom escape routes at an autorama. Here, collectivity does not mean homogeneity; instead, it is rooted in a shared vitality and a political stance against fascism, while still allowing a process of individuation to unfold within the group. The performers dance on and with the music of Tantão e os Fita, a Brazilian music group from the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro

Bio Marcelo Evelin (BR) is an internationally working dancer, choreographer, and researcher based between Teresina and Amsterdam, and has been affiliated with the Academy of Theatre & Dance in Amsterdam since 1999.

Multidisciplinary artist/DJ Camille Sapara Barton and performer/curator Simomo Bouj will invite the audience into a twirling workshop, where embodied practice replaces spectatorship, opening a temporary space of collective becoming. 

Camille Sapara Barton is an Amsterdam-based author, advisor, embodiment social designer and interdisciplinary artist who creates resources and collective experiences that prototype culture change. Simomo Bouj is one of the curators of this programme and is also a choreographer and performer, active within various collectives and networks, including Sexyland WORLD and Queer 365.
 
 
 

Throughout there will be music and pop-infused performances by dragtivist and art-educator Taka Taka and performer and activist Clara Saito.
By combining drag, theatre, lip-sync, and audience interaction, a raw and open space emerges in which sadness can be shared, moved, and transformed.

Taka Taka identifies as a professional dragtivist and art-educator who produces performances as director for the House of Hopelezz, Club Church, Amsterdam. Clara Saito is a performance and visual artist based in Amsterdam. Her work moves between different characters, including the drag king Kurt Dickriot, the rockstar of performance art Lady Dada, and Sadsato Claclown, the saddest clown in town. 

A physical and visual soloperformance resulting from a 3 weeks long research. It attempts to deal with what’s broken, to find a new sense within a transformed landscape, if it is to be found. Not in order to fix something, but rather as a gesture of resilience, as an attempt to recalculate a direction. It’s the embodiment of a scream. A scream that we, as people and perhaps even more as women, easily unlearn how to uncompromisingly manifest. One that is regularly being killed before it manages to exit the body. 

Francesca Lazzeri graduated in 2016 from the Mime Education in Amsterdam and has been actively working since then as a theatre maker, adviser, mentor, performer and is the dramaturg of Frascati. since 2022. Francesca distinguishes herself by her uncompromising, outspoken and direct signature.