Olympia Bukkakis & Maria F. Scaroni: Unsex Me Here

In a dance and drag performance, Maria F. Scaroni and Olympia Bukkakis explore the figures of the Queen and the Witch, both in the Western historical imagination and in the queer and now.

Drag queen and choreographer Olympia Bukkakis is often called a queen (because she is one) and dancer and choreographer Maria F. Scaroni is frequently labelled a witch (because she is one). For this piece they take these often humorously ascribed titles seriously, exploring what it means to be a monarch, healer, drag queen, crone, trans femme and (peri)menopausal woman; what it means to be childless and yet fruitful. To refuse reproduction, and yet multiply.

For their first performative collaboration Maria F. Scaroni and Olympia Bukkakis stage a duet that draws on their own lived experiences as well as their joint practice of somatic drag. Unsex Me Here begins with two familiars alone in a room strewn with the debris of feminine life.

Throughout the piece they dress up and down, experiment with different ways of moving, speaking and singing, and support each other in various numbers, virtuosic nonsenses and necromantic prayers.


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