2023 | Queebaret: Dresden-Kyiv | Hellerau
Changes, both good and traumatic, demand celebration. Bliadski Circus Queebaret invites the audience to celebrate together! They will open the door to the world of unrestrained love, ecstatic fun and unbridled fantasies.
Bliadski Circus Queebaret is a feminist-queer collective initiated by the leading representatives of progressive Ukrainian theater currently living in Warsaw – theatre director Roza Sarkisian and actress and performer Oxana Cherkashyna. The team is also co-created by Alexandra Malatskovska – composer and performer, and Agata Siwiak – curator and artivist. The name of the collective and at the same time its main formula of artistic expression – Queebaret – combines two elements that work together. Cabaret as a response to the turbulent times marked by the war in Ukraine and Queer, as a space of love, resistance and subversion, which allows you to radically cross the borders of bourgeois taste and patriarchal norms.
Bliadski Circus Queebaret is the result of changes and at the same time a response to changes in the lives of its members in the last several months:
“• Three of us are Ukrainian. There is a war going on in our country led by Putin.
• One of us has lost a loved one.
• Four of us fear for the lives of loved ones every day.
• One of us got married.
• Four of us founded a theater collective that works for the feminist and queer revolution.”
7:45 pm there will be an introduction.
Duration: approx. 1 h.
Language: English, Ukrainian
Credits
Direction & Performance: Roza Sarkisian
Performance: Oxana Cherkashyna
Composition & Performance: Alexandra Malatskovska
Curation: Agata Siwiak
Costume & drag make-up: Kiju Klejzik
Direction & Performance: Roza Sarkisian
Performance: Oxana Cherkashyna
Composition & Performance: Alexandra Malatskovska
Curation: Agata Siwiak
Costume & drag make-up: Kiju Klejzik
Video: Magda Mosiewicz
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Bliadski Circus Queebaret operates as part of the Reszka Foundation, and its partner institution is the feminist cultural institution – Teatr Dramatyczny in Warsaw. In 2023, BC Queebaret will have its performances at HELLERAU– European Center for the Arts Dresden, Gorki Theater in Berlin and at the Dramatic Theater in Warsaw.
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