FEMALE UTILITIES #1-#3 | Streaming

We live in a world of things. In some ways we can’t function without them, in some ways the dependence is feigned. If we consider these things, we rediscover our relationship to them, positively and negatively. What role do these things play in a woman’s life, how are we determined by them? What do they say about women in society and what roles do we give them or allow ourselves to be pressed into by them? Two dancers explore the boundaries between dependence, status and necessity.

A production of WEHR51, as a co-production with tanz.tausch – dance and performance festival Cologne, and the Freihandelszone – ensemble network Cologne

Andrea Bleikamp – Direction, Concept
Sara Blasco Gutiérrez, Lisa Hellmich – Dance, Choreography
Alessandro De Matteis – Dance Film
Wehr51 – Costumes, Set

„Female Utilities“ # 1 hairy and furry
Music: Daphne Oram “Snow”
„Female Utilities“ # 2 a fistfull of dollars
Music: 2016 world livestock auctioneer championship (part 1)
„Female Utilities“ # 4 smartphone
Music: Sara Blasco Gutiérrez

Performance at DOCK11, Berlin
Naia Burucoa – Lights
Videodocumentation: Walter Bickmann | Tanzforum Berlin