04
Oct
A dance performance exploring how we perform and experience gender, inspired by Judith Butler and Plato’s Androgyne, using movement, gesture, and outrageous expression to question societal norms.
Broken Self / A Dance Performance around Gender Norms
Broken Self invites us to explore the ways we perform and experience gender. Inspired by Judith Butler and Plato’s Androgyne, two performers use movement, gesture, dance, and outrageous expression to question how bodies are shaped by societal norms. Mixing clowning, drag, and playful exaggeration, they turn rigidity into humour and resistance, pushing embodiment to its extremes. Bold, physically intense, and conceptually sharp, Broken Self is a theatrical playground where gender is performed, challenged, and reimagined, leaving spectators seeing identity in a new light.
Credits
Concept / Directed by / Dramaturgy: Jimmy Machai
Music Design / Movement Consultant: Alex Rabbit
Performers: Jimmy Machai, Alex Rabbit
Language no problem.
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