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Who is afraid of the hag? In their multimedia kaleidoscope, She She Pop conjure up this fear with melodramatic gestures in order to exorcise it from the audience in a powerfully visual and humorous way. For 25 years now, the renowned Berlin collective has shaped the German performance scene. This year, the members of She She Pop are all around 50 years old. And so they have chosen to deal with the fear of the old woman – the hag and the witch – in their new piece “Hexploitation”. To this day, the label ‘witch’ is used to discipline women, to disparage them socially as anarchic, sexually unproductive and subversive of power structures and authority. In a live film set, She She Pop explore their own disturbing imperfections and obsessions, tracing taboos and examining traditional witchcraft. In the process, they discover the camera as a magic box through which they can transcend their bodies to create ever new liberating self-portraits.
Duration: 80 min
Language: German
Mousonturm-Coproduction
This piece features unclad bodies and details of them. We do not feel that anyone needs to be protected from these images and therefore find an age rating unnecessary, but you may see it differently. In that case, please consider this notice a warning.
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Cast & Credits
Von und mit: Sebastian Bark, Johanna Freiburg, Fanni Halmburger, Lisa Lucassen, Mieke Matzke, Ilia Papatheodorou, Berit Stumpf
Musik: Santiago Blaum
Video: Benjamin Krieg
Bühne: Sandra Fox
Kostüme: Lea Søvsø
Mitarbeit Kostüm: Lii Hillerich und Mads Dinsen
Künstlerische und dramaturgische Mitarbeit: Laia Ribera Cañénguez
Künstlerische Mitarbeit in Frankfurt/M.: Valeria Germain
Sound Design: Manuel Horstmann
Ton: Torsten Schwarzbach
Licht: Michael Lentner, Andreas Kröher
Technische Leitung: Sven Nichterlein
Video Assistenz: Daniela Garcia del Pomar
Hospitanz: Carolin Bodensteiner, Rodrigo Zorzanelli Cavalcanti
Produktionsleitung: Valeria Germain
PR, Kommunikation: ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro
Freie Mitarbeit Kommunikation: Tina Ebert
Finanzadministration: Aminata Oelßner
Company Management: Elke Weber
Dank an: Veronica Dyas (Dublin), Claudia Opitz (Basel), Eva von Redecker (Berlin), Takako Shibata (Tokyo).
Eine Produktion von She She Pop in Koproduktion mit HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, FFT Düsseldorf, Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig, HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Kaserne Basel, Dublin Theatre Festival und Festival delle Colline Torinesi/TPE – Teatro Piemonte Europa.
Gefördert durch die Kulturstiftung des Bundes und die Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa. Gefördert im Rahmen des Bündnisses internationaler Produktionshäuser von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
Biography
She She Pop
She She Pop is a performance collective that was founded in the 90s at the Giessen Institute for Applied Theatre Studies. Its members are Sebastian Bark, Johanna Freiburg, Fanni Halmburger, Lisa Lucassen, Mieke Matzke, Ilia Papatheodorou, Berit Stumpf and Elke Weber, their creative producer. The members of the group are predominantly women and they work as a collective. The performers see themselves as authors, dramaturges and practitioners of their stage art. The inclusion of their own autobiographies is above all the method and not the purpose of their work.
The result is a form of theatre firmly committed to experimentation. The stage is always a place of intense publicness. Here, decisions are made, ways of speaking and social systems are tested, and speech gestures and social rituals are tried, rehearsed or discarded. She She Pop sees its task as a search to find the social limits of communication – and to go beyond the protective space of the theatre, in both specific and artistic terms. The theatre is turned into a space for utopian communication. The audience, too, is often given a tangible attribution and a special feature: all of She She Pop’s works are experiments or demonstrations in some way, which would be invalid without spectators.