Motus

The workshop title comes from a poem by *Susan Stryker* (author, filmmaker, and gender studies theorist): “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage”. Together, we will share research activities and easy physical exercises that let us go on a journey of understanding our layers, and discover how we can take care of each other, and build new possible alliances. You do not need any special experience – just a willingness to discover your body and its hidden zones, and join a collective happening trying to give voice to things that have no voice. We will all together create a large canvas with our bodies and stories. This project is part of a trilogy inspired by *Frankenstein* and its creature — a being that first looks at the world with curiosity and love but, after experiences of being excluded, becomes the “monster” people say it is and turns violent… In the *Frankenstein* performance and the artistic research for **[ÒDIO]**, MOTUS sees monstrosity and rage as something that comes from discrimination as a source and resource. As Jack Halberstam says: “We need monsters and we need to recognise and celebrate our own monstrosities.”