Anajara Amarante

Fokus Tanz #10 Sorry Not Sorry

www.anajaralaisa.com

Flamboyant and butch queen, crip and queer: Butching Cowboys celebrates a new body norm. Anajara Amarante takes the audience into their queer version of South American surrealism and creates entire dance landscapes out of it. On stage, the performers free themselves from everything that makes them feel out of place – symbols, clothing and doctor’s offices –, and also leave behind learned and imposed behaviors. Closely connected to the artists, the audience experiences a crescendo evening that is both visual protest and ritual celebration. Grief and anger about a society in which a multitude of bodies still find no place become a new way of self-empowerment here.

Anajara Amarante is a chronically ill, queer Brazilian artist. Their main media of work is the moving body. Their professional interests are personal and political: queer, dissident bodies, marginalized communities and art practices. Their main artistic practice is concentrated in the field of performing arts (focus choreography), with previous formations in Biology and Communication. As a Brazilian living in Europe, Anajara is interested in immigrant people, the construction of their identities, and post-colonialism, as well as the construction of joy, inclusion, and diversity. Tis Aly is a queer BIPoC artist with a strong wish for social justice. Tis Aly's artistic work is a place of collision, meeting the individual and the collective simultaneously. Marc Philipp Gabriel is a Berlin based performance artist working with body, voice, installation, video and architecture from the perspective of dance and movement. SorrySuSu999 is a Berlin based artist with a BA in Anthropology. Their interest goes around performance art to translate their observations about society.

Accessibility information

The audience is arranged in an L-shape on two sides of the stage. The performers often come close to the front row, and in one scene they briefly enter the audience only partially clothed. Straw is used as well as stage fog several times, which is blown directly into parts of the audience. A loud wind machine, animal masks and confetti are also used. In the second scene, a tense atmosphere is created for several minutes. In addition, there are two sudden loud moments. In another scene, the room is almost completely darkened and an uncanny atmosphere is created with frightening voice echoes. Later, a prop is hit several times with a loud bang. In the last scene, loud music, a spinning disco ball, coloured light changes and fog are used simultaneously. The performance is a Relaxed Performance. Relaxed Performances welcome all visitors for whom sitting still for long periods of time in the theatre is a barrier (for example autistic people, people with Tourette's, learning difficulties or chronic pain). Noises and movements from the audience are welcome. Visitors can leave and return to the auditorium at any time.

We kindly ask all visitors of this event to test themselves for Covid before attending and to wear a mask, if it does not restrict their own accessibility. If you have flu symptoms, please refrain from attending the event.

At the SORRY NOT SORRY festival, we offer discounted tickets for disabled, chronically ill, deaf and neurodivergent people. These can be purchased in the webshop, by phone or at the box office. Use the code notsorry (tickets: 8 euros) for the shows Thunderbird's Transformation, With or Without You, Harmonia, Matters of Rhythm, and Butching Cowboys and the code notsorryk6 (tickets: 12 euros) for ÔSS. All other events are free of charge or free choice of price on site. Please do not book the discounted tickets if you do not belong to one of these groups.

When required, we offer a personal pick-up service from nearby subway or bus stations, for example for blind and visually impaired persons. As our capacities are not unlimited, please send us an e-mail to barrierefreiheit@kampnagel.de or contact us on 040 270 949 323. Please let us know your name, a telephone number where we can reach you, the date of your visit to our theater, your arrival time and bus stop, and which play you will attend. We will then get back to you promptly and confirm your request.