Concept, Creation, Dramaturgy, Performance: Eisa Jocson, Venuri Perera / Light design: Ariana Battaglia / Sound Design: Soraya Bonaventure / Artistic Advice: Rasa Alksnyte / Text Advice: Ruhanie Perera / Spiritual Advice: Nenet Ocson Babaylan-Vaigaland / Outside Ears and Eyes: Arco Renz, Tang Fu Kuen / Dramaturgical support: Anna Wagner, Alexandra Hennig / Production Advice: Sandro Lunin / Technical Production: Seok Hui Yap / Producer: Katja Armknecht, Anne Kleiner / Production Management: Greta Katharina Klein, Paula Elena Noack / Production: Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm
Eisa Jocson & Venuri Perera
Magic Maids
- Dance
English /
approx. 80 mins.
Both archetypal female figures, “the witch” and “the maid”, are two poles of the same misogynistic matrix – despised and feared at the same time. In a solemn and sly incantation, “Magic Maids” demystifies the many ways in which the history of European witch-hunts intertwines with global networks of care work and the exploitation of the colonised female body. International artists Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera have collected the literally unheard stories of care workers in the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, the echoes of which now haunt their bodies. “Magic Maids” is both a ritual and a dance performance: by embodying the ambivalent female figures, the dancers pledge themselves and the audience to fighting against the invisibility of care work and structures that despise women. In an evening of dance, magic and struggle, the broom no longer symbolises oppression, but feminist resistance.
Cast
Dates
Past
Further Information
Visitor note
Notes:
After the performance on 21.9.: Artist Talk with Petra Poelzl
Credits
Production: Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Frascati Producties (unterstützt durch Ammodo), Tanzquartier Wien, SPRING Performing Arts Festival, Festival Theaterformen, DDD - Festival Dias da Dança, Kampnagel, Arsenic - Centre d’art scénique contemporain, La briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne, Points Communs - nouvelle scène nationale Cergy-Pontoise / Val d’Oise, Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne and Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay. Funded within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture, Research, Science and the Arts. Supported by: Ammondo, Kaserne Basel, Puón Institute Philippines, Goethe-Institut Sri Lanka, Dance Nucleus in collaboration with Studio Plesungan as part of ARTEFACT Creative Residency, Colomboscope Contemporary Art Festival 2024.
Location
HAU3
Tempelhofer Ufer 10, 10963 BerlinHAU3 unfortunately is not barrier-free. Access to the theatre is via a stairwell (3rd floor). The use of a lift is possible with prior arrangement. If you need help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or email us at tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de. Wheelchair users are also kindly requested to register their attendance at least one day before the performance.
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