23 Jul

20:30

Plein Theater

Sajetplein 39, Amsterdam

A double bill featuring 'Pasvorm', a solo performance on gender identity by Peer Roosen, and 'Johnny Tranca is f*cking with Brahms', a drag king solo by Ariadna Rubio Lleo.

WorldPride Month Double Bill: Pasvorm & Johnny Tranca is f*cking with Brahms

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Pasvorm

By Peer Roosen

Solo performance | 25-30 min | Language: Dutch

What happens when the frameworks you grew up in no longer seem to fit? In the intimate solo performance Pasvorm, creator, poet, and performer Peer Roosen (they/them) takes you on a journey into the personal and physical impact of a search for gender identity. At the intersection of theater and spoken word, Peer shows how this process gets under your skin and casts your own past in a completely new light.

Inspired by Peer's own experiences and interviews with other non-binary people, Pasvorm attempts to invite you to come closer and look beyond the societal discussion to the personal stories. This performance is the first result of a larger artistic research project, which will eventually culminate in a full-evening performance.

About Peer Roosen (they/them): Peer is a passionate poet and performer whose autofictional work aims to make the incomprehensible tangible. Their first solo show, Leegstand, premiered at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival, and they are currently developing their next performance as a THINX maker at Parktheater Eindhoven.

Johnny Tranca is f*cking with Brahms

By Ariadna Rubio Lleo

Solo performance | 22 min | Language No Problem

In this 22-minute drag king solo, Johnny Tranca moves through the first movement of Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77. The music functions as a rhythmic and physical underlayer to which the body responds and shifts. Johnny continuously moves between the feminine and the masculine, seriousness and play. The bowing gestures are translated into a physical score of repetitive air-humping, creating a choreography where music, body, and gender constantly interfere with and destabilise one another.

The performance is inspired by Fertile Ruins by Federico Campagna, exploring themes of desire, failure, and transformation.

About Ariadna Rubio Lleo: Ariadna is a theatre maker, performer, and teacher working at the intersection of theatre, dance, and performance. She investigates themes of identity, power, and transformation through the body. A co-founder of the theatre collective Schwalbe, her autonomous practice moves between the poetic and the camp, with a critical perspective on gender and performativity. Johnny Tranca is one of her drag king personas.