Programme

Eisa Jocson & Venuri Perera

Magic Maids

Duration approx. 80 mins.

Language English 

Both archetypal female figures, “the witch” and “the maid”, are two poles of the same misogynistic matrix – despised and feared at the same time. In a solemn and sly incantation, “Magic Maids” demystifies the many ways in which the history of European witch-hunts intertwines with global networks of care work and the exploitation of the colonised female body. International artists Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera have collected the literally unheard stories of care workers in the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, the echoes of which now haunt their bodies. “Magic Maids” is both a ritual and a dance performance: by embodying the ambivalent female figures, the dancers pledge themselves and the audience to fighting against the invisibility of care work and structures that despise women. In an evening of dance, magic and struggle, the broom no longer symbolises oppression, but feminist resistance.

  • Cast

    Concept, Creation, Dramaturgy, Performance

    Eisa Jocson Venuri Perera

    Light design

    Ariana Battaglia

    Sound Design

    Soraya Bonaventure

    Artistic Advice

    Rasa Alksnyte

    Text Advice

    Ruhanie Perera

    Spiritual Advice

    Nenet Ocson Babaylan-Vaigaland

    Outside Ears and Eyes

    Arco Renz, Tang Fu Kuen

    Dramaturgical support

    Anna Wagner, Alexandra Hennig

    Production Advice

    Sandro Lunin

    Technical Production

    Seok Hui Yap

    Producer

    Katja Armknecht, Anne Kleiner

    Production Management

    Greta Katharina Klein, Paula Elena Noack

    Production

    Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm

  • Credits

    This performance uses a dusting of chilli, salt and turmeric. Domestic violence is thematised.

Further Information

Visitor note

Production: Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Frascati Producties (unterstützt durch Ammodo), Tanzquartier Wien, SPRING Performing Arts Festival, Festival Theaterformen, DDD - Festival Dias da Dança, Kampnagel, Arsenic - Centre d’art scénique contemporain, La briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne, Points Communs - nouvelle scène nationale Cergy-Pontoise / Val d’Oise, Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne and Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay. Funded within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture, Research, Science and the Arts. Supported by: Ammondo, Kaserne Basel, Puón Institute Philippines, Goethe-Institut Sri Lanka, Dance Nucleus in collaboration with Studio Plesungan as part of ARTEFACT Creative Residency, Colomboscope Contemporary Art Festival 2024.

Notes:

After the performance on 21.9.: Artist Talk with Petra Poelzl

Past dates

  • Fri 20.9.

    from 19:00 HAU3

  • Sat 21.9.

    from 19:00 HAU3

    Notes: Afterwards: Artist Talk with Petra Poelzl

  • Sun 22.9.

    from 17:00 HAU3

Location

HAU3
Tempelhofer Ufer 10, 10963 Berlin

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