Eva Meyer-Keller: Turn The P/Age

While Western society often represses ageing bodies from the public consciousness, Turn The P/age puts them at the center of attention.

There can be both a perverse pleasure and a sense of rightness and beauty in insisting on blossoming just when the world expects you to shut up and retreat. This is what Sharon Blackie writes in her book Hagitude.

Eva-Meyer Keller takes up this perspective and, in her premiere Turn The P/Age, sheds light on the cultural dialogue about ageing, women's health and medical history and does everything she can to challenge common stereotypes and shake up perspectives.


As cis and trans* women, the four performers bring different perspectives on the visibility of femininity. In a stage space that oscillates between laboratory, anatomical theatre and art installation, they interweave historical and personal stories, sound collages and movement.


In a theater space that oscillates between laboratory, anatomical theater and art installation, a performance unfolds in which historical and personal stories, sound collages and movement merge. Four performers explore how their bodies and identities have changed over the years.


They not only examine their personal biographies, but also delve deep into cultural and medical history to understand how these transformations have shaped them and how closely their experiences are interwoven with the society in which they age. As cis and trans women, they bring different perspectives on the visibility of their femininity and the changing perceptions of themselves and their bodies at different stages of their lives.

Turn The P/age shows how female bodies have been used throughout history as a projection screen for social fears and medical dogmas. However, the focus is not on suffering from these grievances, but on the search for resilience. The choreography balances between control and letting go, between care and critical reflection, between individual strength and solidarity, and sets seemingly fixed perspectives on ageing and the health of women with and without uteruses in motion.


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(GERMAN/ENGLISH)