17 May

19:30

Theater Rotterdam

Schouwburgplein 25, Rotterdam

Mx. CoelaCunt will live forever is an ode to survival and fluidity. Through a mix of music, choreography, fashion, and spoken word, Djuwa Mroivili creates a performance that is both healing and confrontational.

mx CoelaCunt Will Live Forever

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Welcome to the universe of Mx. CoelaCunt, a fluid being that cannot be caught. Not by time. Not by binary systems. Not by people.

Mx. CoelaCunt will live forever is an ode to survival – to everything and everyone who cannot be captured in form or norm. With a fluid mix of different musical languages, choreography, fashion, spoken word, and glamour, Djuwa Mroivili creates a performance that is both healing and confrontational.

In this performance, creator, musician, and performer Djuwa Mroivili takes you into the deep. To deep seas, fragmented roots, ancient rituals, and new forms of resistance. She draws lines between Comorian traditions, the contemporary queer scene, and life in the deep sea – a world that people know little about.

The Comoros – where Djuwa has a family history – form the beating heart of this quest: a place where oral traditions, music, and glittery weddings intertwine the present and the past. Where both matriarchal and patriarchal structures coexist. But also a place where European rulers stigmatized existence and erased the lives of people whose gender and sexuality did not fit within colonial norms.

Inspiration for Mx. CoelaCunt

Mx. CoelaCunt is inspired by the coelacanth: a fish attributed a crucial role in evolutionary theory. A fish with primitive lungs and fins that move like four-legged animals on land, unnoticed by European scientists but long known to Comorian fishermen.

In Djuwa's hands, Mx. CoelaCunt becomes an icon: a symbol for everything fluid and elusive. Between fish and human, between gender and no gender, between land and sea, between now and always. The coelacanth becomes a metaphor for the stigmatization and appropriation of everything that is not understood.