Johanne (CH), Sayari-Alexandria (CH), Lucas Muxu (FR)
Appetite for the depths
performance
- environ 50'
- F Hearing-impaired spectators welcome
- G Hearing loops
- E Partially-sighted spectators welcome
- A Little or no text
- B Accessible to persons with reduced mobility
In 2020, Johanne, who was socialised as a boy and then as a man, began a process of transition. This piece is born out of a personal story of struggle against an imposed body and the desire to re-unite with oneself. Like a plunge towards the self, Appetite for Depths choreographs this sensual journey of a vibrant body, in movement, never fixed.
Drawing on Johanne’s krump practice and the Vogue Fem techniques and influences of the dancers Sayari and Muxu, Appetite for Depths employs a movement vocabulary derived from the subversive dances of invisibilised minorities whose bodies carry an urgent need for expression, which is no accident.
By creating a safe space away from an oppressive binary, bodies can finally allow themselves to be what they want in a world where possibilities that do not conform to the accepted norm flourish. They reinvent their own imaginary landscapes to better reappropriate a trans mythology, thus giving birth to new fictions in which they may recognise themselves.