MAISON OUVERTE #11
Unsex Me Here
Performance by Maria F. Scaroni and Olympia Bukkakis
Location:
Fuxia 2, Norra Grängesbergsgatan 19, Malmö
Entrance:
Västanforsgatan 30, Malmö
> 18:30-19:00
Mingle and Buffet
> 19:00-20:10
Unsex Me Here
Performance by Maria F. Scaroni and Olympia Bukkakis
“Unsex Me Here“ is a dance performance exploring the figures of the queen and the witch in the Western historical imagination, as well as in the queer and now. Drag queen and choreographer Olympia Bukkakis and dancer and choreographer Maria F. Scaroni stage a duet that draws on their own lived experiences as well as their joint practice of drag somatics. Various queens and witches fall outside normative heterosexual reproduction, begging the question: if we’re not reproducing, what are we multiplying?
In “Unsex Me Here“ trans femmes meet sages-femmes, the perimenopausal become seriously regal bitches, and voiceless queens make themselves heard in a kaleidoscope of ritual acts of allyship.
> 20:30-21:15
After Talk
Conversation between Maria F. Scaroni, Olympia Bukkakis and Frédéric Gies
Photo by Asiana Jurca Avci
Biographies:
Maria F. Scaroni
Maria F. Scaroni (IT/DE) is a dance artist, living in Berlin since 2004. She creates and interprets choreographic works rooted in improvisational practices and altered states of consciousness. Maria hosts workshops re-purposing post-modern dance legacies towards technologies for mutual empowerment, crossbreeding somatic practices and anti-oppression frameworks, storytelling and theory, to bring somatic competence in support of a culture of connection. Maria performs in Meg Stuart’s works, with whom she collaborates since 2009. After collective Lecken, an erogenous queer rave, since pandemic she has been hosting Social Pleasure Center, a community space for somatic post-activism, queer feminist joyful militancy, radical redistribution of resources and temporary social choreography.
https://www.allalways.org/
https://www.socialpleasure.center/
Olympia Bukkakis
Queen of the Heavens and of the Earth, Empress of Despair, and Architect of Your Eternal Suffering, Olympia Bukkakis is a drag queen working in theatre, dance, and queer nightlife.
She began performing while completing a BA in social theory at Melbourne University in Australia and kick-started the local alternative drag scene with her party Pandora’s Box. Since moving to Berlin in 2012, she has organised, curated, and moderated various queer performance nights including Get Fucked, Apocalypse Tonight and Queens Against Borders. In 2019 she completed a Masters in Solo Dance Authorship at the Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT) in Berlin with her graduation piece Tales From a State of Shemergency.
Since then she has premiered a number of new works including, Gender Euphoria (2019), Work on Progress (2019), Under Pressures (2019), A Touch of the Other (2020), Too Much (2021), Boys Night Out (2023), and replay (2023).
Olympia has published a number of writing pieces. Gender Euphoria: Trans and Nonbinary Identities in Drag was published by Bloomsbury as part of Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene and a polemic titled A Case for the Abolition of Men is available through HKW as part of Counter Readings of the Body via Spektor Books.
She is inspired by the tensions and intersections between queer nightlife and contemporary dance and performance.
Photo by Asiana Jurca Avci