Everybody can be everybody can not be

Dance performance by Jao Moon

Everybody can be everybody can not be

- Please note that we use Stroboscope Light during the performance -

- Bags (larger than DIN A5) and jackets must be handed out at the cloakroom -

Even if I’m in a bad mood, I walk around with a broad smile ‒ because you simply can’t risk being perceived as cranky, and therefore as “dangerous”. PRETENDING! My clothes are super neat. Because if you are seen as “different” and “poor”, there is no respect and therefore no protection. Pretend! Face it! Pretend! Survival technique.

Be like anything and whatever you want! Freedom, creative possibilities, space for your own concepts. Do your thing! Wasn’t there this promise? Being someone, being someone else, recreating yourself. Unfolding. Was that reality? For whom? And what happens when gazes pin you down, expectations hold you in place, in the old role, in the role determined by others? The spaces are small. Who can claim to be something other than the attribution allows? Face it!

So where do we get the energy from? To go out. To show ourselves, with our very own face. You have to face it!

Everybody can be everybody can not be is a danced queer performance about exotization, energies of resistance and self-determined visibilities. Everybody can be everybody can not be is the queer everyday performance, back and forth between attack and defense, between self-protection and hypervisibility, it is the queer everyday performance of entering into confrontation, alone, together.

After Gritty Glamour (201 5), FRUTAS AFRODISÍACAS (2016) and the solo performance Memory of Dislocation ‒ Exactly the same is the opposite direction (2017), Ballhaus Naunynstraße now presents Jao Moon’s fourth production with Everybody can be everybody can not be. It is a debut for Moon as a choreographer of a team of performers!

Artists/Collaborators: Laura Alonso (Choreografieassistenz), Cheng-Ting Chen (Bühnebildassistenz), Emilio Cordero Checa (Lichtdesign), Lalo Gomes (Dramaturgie), Tobias Lee (Musik), Billy Lobos (Kostümdesign), Jao Moon, Michi Muchina (Bühnenbild), Juan Saez (Video), Nuria de Lario (Maske), Bejarano Francisco, Montes de Oca, Jao Moon, Amada Tinoco, Natasha Vergilio, Nayme -

Produced by Kultursprünge at Ballhaus Naunynstraße gemeinnützige GmbH. The initial production was funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin.

Next date: EVERYBODY CAN BE EVERYBODY CAN NOT BE

• Date Saturday, 14/December/2024 20:00 (3 more dates)
• Venue Ballhaus Naunynstraße
• Address Naunynstraße 27, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg
• Price from €15.40

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