By deconstructing the social privileges associated with masculinity, the workshop aims to redistribute space, power and political joy to women. A journey through gendered bodies that goes far beyond cross-dressing, envisaged as a space of freedom and empowerment!
Butoh dance and Drag King may seem to be born in different spaces, but what they have in common is resistance to normative forms.
The proposal to bring these two disciplines together came from a simple observation: it is through the deconstruction of the dancing body that Butoh takes its deepest inspiration, and through the explosion of codes of masculinity and femininity that the masquerade of gender loses all meaning.
A veritable catharsis of the social construction of gender that men and women experience, undergo, reproduce and, finally, deconstruct, this Butoh-King workshop is aimed above all at women wishing to experiment with the differential use of the body, public space and the social privileges associated with masculinity.
Far beyond cross-dressing, the King becomes a powerful political tool enabling women to experiment with the power of masculinity in public space and society in general through "gender masquerade".
Butoh dance forms the basis of the workshop's bodywork, exploring both inner and outer landscapes. Butoh, more than a dance, is a pretext for metamorphosis, and the tools developed enable us to work in depth and gradually bring about a heightened awareness of our transformative potential. There's no need to be a dancer or actress already: everyone can and must dance with the body they have, because that body is full of attitudes, movements, memories and sensitivities that each of us must draw on as if in a treasure trove. Drag King, as a political practice, will then take over, pooling experiences, sharing techniques of resistance, and knowledge linked to gender issues.