Close-up of intertwined arms, legs and hands. Tattoos and painted fingernails flash out. A gently smiling face at the bottom.
© Alexandra Polina
Close-up of intertwined arms, legs and hands. Tattoos and painted fingernails flash out. A gently smiling face at the bottom.
© Alexandra Polina
International Summer Festival 2024
Performance

Sibylle Peters / Heteraclub

Touching You

Physically touching the audience has been disqualified as an artistic practice for far too long. Time for the Pleasure Activists of the Heteraclub to change that.

Tickets:

24 Euro (conc. ab 12 Euro, 50% with Festivalkarte)

Info

Not suitable for minors

Past dates

A gloomy graphic in black, gray and pink with the words INTERNATIONAL SUMMER FESTIVAL running across it. In the middle is a swirl.
International Summer Festival 2024
Website Sibylle Peters
Sibylle Peters @ Instagram
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Queens Heteraclub @ Instagram

Four years ago, QUEENS: THE HETERACLUB was a celebrated nightclub performance that empowered female desire. The diverse Heteraclub team challenged a taboo in the art form of theater, which usually aims to touch the audience without direct physical contact. Now, Sibylle Peters’ group is reuniting for a performance where the audience can personally experience how they desire to be touched by theater. The performers will guide twelve participants through sensual experiments, exploring the politics of touch and some of the strangest forms of consensual cuddling and tactile communication by turning “words into goosebumps and meaning into pleasure!”. Crossing boundaries between the audience and performers, TOUCHING YOU aims to open up an inclusive, rarely entered space. From a feminist and queer perspective, the question arises: What kind of touch do we desire?

A close-up of a cosy scene: four people are closely intertwined. Arms, hands and faces nestle together tenderly.
© Alexandra Polina
Close-up of intertwined arms, legs and hands. Tattoos and painted fingernails flash out. A gently smiling face at the bottom.
© Alexandra Polina
Seven people in pink and purple clothes lie cosily on top of each other and in each other's arms. They snuggle together tenderly, look at each other gently and hold hands. Above them hangs a glowing sign with the words "TOUCHING YOU".
© Alexandra Polina
An angled photo of four people posing in exalted movements. The person in front wears only pants and a shirt and bends their knees with their legs apart. The person next to them elegantly stretches one arm upwards.
© Alexandra Polina
Eight people sit on the floor in a circle with their backs to each other. They stretch their arms upwards and look upwards. They are wearing pink and purple clothes and red and beige satin gloves. A holey fabric sculpture floats above them.
© Alexandra Polina
A dark, red-lit shot of a hand resting on knees and being gently touched by another hand in a velvet glove.
© Alexandra Polina
A dark, red-lit shot of two hands gently touching.
© Alexandra Polina
A person in a short black skirt and top wears a metre-long wig made of pink and red tinsel. The strips of tinsel fly wildly in the wind and swirl around. The person holds the wig tightly to their head.
© Alexandra Polina

Evening program Sibylle Peters Heteraclub
© Kampnagelapplication/pdf, 281.85 KB
Press photos Sibylle Peters TOUCHING YOU
© Alexandra Polinaapplication/zip, 146.04 MB
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With: Sibylle Peters, Heteraclub

By Sibylle Peters & Heteraclub With Ansuman Biswas, Negar Foroughanfar, Nina Klöckner, Nils Löfke, Simon Mantei, Charlotte Pfeifer, Maik Reif, Maike Tödter, Michael von Schönberg, Eidglas Xavier Stage Matthias Anton Music and Sound L Twills & Ansuman Biswas Dramaturgical Advice Armin Chodzinski, Joshua Sofaer Production Management ehrliche rbeit – freies Kulturbüro

Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

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