EVERYBODY CAN BE EVERYBODY CAN NOT BE
Even when I’m in a bad mood, I walk around with a radiant smile – because it's simply too risky to be perceived as having a bad vibe and thus as "dangerous." PRETENDING! My clothes are super accurate. Because if you are seen as “different” and “poor,” there’s no respect and thus no protection. Pretend! Face it! Pretend! Survival technique.
Be who and what you want! Space for freedom, possibilities for design, space for self-conceptions. Do your thing! Wasn’t there a promise? To be someone, to be someone else, to conceive oneself. Blooming. Was that reality? For whom? And what if the gazes fixate, if the expectations hold on, in the old role, in the externally determined role? The spaces are small. Who is allowed to claim to be something other than what the ascription dictates? Face it!
So: Where do we get the energy? To go out. To show ourselves, with our own face. You have to face it! Everybody can be everybody can not be is a danced queer performance about exoticism, energies of resistance, and self-determined visibility. Everybody can be everybody can not be is the queer everyday performance, moving back and forth between attack and defense, between self-protection and hyper-visibility, it is the queer everyday performance to confront, alone, together.
Ballhaus Naunynstraße presents Jao Moon’s fourth work with Everybody can be everybody can not be, following Gritty Glamour (2015), FRUTAS AFRODISÍACAS (2016), and the solo performance Memory of Dislocation – Exactly the same is the opposite direction (2017). As the choreographer of a team of performers, this is a debut for Moon!
Photo: Juan Saez
A production by Kultursprünge at Ballhaus Naunynstraße gemeinnützige GmbH. The premiere was funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin.
Hallo, ich bin Maya.
