Date: March 1, 2025 - March 2, 2025
Location: Germany
Accessibility
- Wheelchair accessible.
- Bean bag seating available.
- Early entry for audience.
- Relaxed performance (suitable for people with autism, Tourette syndrome, learning difficulties, chronic pain, etc.).
- Hearing amplification via induction loop system.
- Audio description included, with tactile guide.
- Subtitles available in German and English.
- Early access to the venue before the show starts.
- Audience seated in an “L” shape on two sides of the stage.
- Use of fog, chemical smells, loud and sudden noises, total darkness, and rapid light changes during the performance (potential triggers).
- Audience sounds and movements are explicitly welcomed.
- Visitors can leave and re-enter the venue at any time.
- Personal transport service offered for blind and visually impaired visitors (by prior arrangement via email or phone).
- Discounted tickets available for people with disabilities, chronic illnesses, deafness, and neurodivergence.
About the show
An extravagant and butch queen, disabled and queer: BUTCHING COWBOYS celebrates a new bodily norm. Anajara Amarante transports the audience into a queer version of South American surrealism, creating entire landscapes of dance. On stage, the artists free themselves from everything that makes them feel like “alien bodies” — symbols, clothes, and medical studies — leaving behind learned and imposed behaviors. Together with the artists, the audience experiences a night that builds up like both a visual protest and a ritual celebration. The pain and anger toward a society where a multitude of bodies still don’t find space become a new form of self-empowerment. Anajara Amarante is a queer Brazilian artist living with a chronic illness who explores identity formation, postcolonialism, and the construction of joy, inclusion, and diversity.
Anajara Amarante is a queer Brazilian artist living with a chronic illness. Their artistic practice focuses on the performing arts, with a particular emphasis on choreography. Their professional interests are both personal and political: queer bodies that deviate from presumed norms, marginalized communities, and artistic practices. As a Brazilian living in Europe, Anajara is interested in the formation of identity among people from diverse cultural and social backgrounds, postcolonialism, and the construction of joy, inclusion, and diversity. Tis Aly is a queer BIPOC artist with a strong commitment to social justice. Tis Aly’s artistic work is a space of collision where the individual and the collective meet simultaneously. Marc Philipp Gabriel is a Berlin-based performance artist who works with body, voice, installation, video, and architecture from the perspectives of dance and movement. SorrySuSu999 is a Berlin-based artist with a degree in Anthropology. SorrySuSu999 is interested in performance art as a means to translate their observations of society.
Credits
With Anajara Amarante
Concept, Choreography, Performance, Stage Design Anajara Amarante Performance, Choreography Assistance Tis Aly Light, Stage Design Marc Philipp Gabriel Costumes, Assistance Production, Performance SorrySuSu999 Assistance for Access, Make-Up Illias Gkionis Video Editing Ana Cichowicz Sound Design Judith Retzlik Audiodescription Live-Show Jojo Büttler, Nic Meyer Audiodescription Zine Sophia Neise
Info
Friday, March 1, 2024, 7:00 PM
Saturday, March 2, 2024, 7:00 PM
Kampanagel, Hamburg
Info and tickets