fem:me

In the organizer's words:

fem:me
Creation, reception & resonance a political dance performance

Are you "a healthy woman, mother with a thousand eyes, a thousand hands"?

What the young bride Pucki set out to do in 1935 falls under the terms multitasking and self-optimization today. Between excessive demands and devotion, women are masters of contradictory expectations. On the one hand, she is expected to juggle family, career and household at the same time; on the other, she used to be denied access to universities because women's brains were not capable of handling several tasks at the same time ("Sex in Education", 1873).
How do these ideas about the "nature of women" fit together? Where do the images we associate with femininity and women's lives come from?

In the dance performance fem:me, the artists' collective DIPHTHONG explores the common images of women in the 1950s and juxtaposes them with a real woman's life. On a journey through time along literary anchor points, the performance reflects on the creation, reception and resonance of a role model.

Sunday 09.06.2023:
1. 5 pm prologue with Dr. Susanne Rauprich
2. 6 pm performance

Production: DIPHTHONG.art e.V
Cooperation: Studio Audience by ArtAsyl e.V (the sustainable development of an audience development is initiated)

Choreography: Stephanie Felber & Nikos Konstantakis | Dance: Natalia Bulatova | Dramaturgy: Nele Beckmann | Video art: Lisa Reutelsterz | Costume design: Lilli Manz | Technical direction: Daniel Swoboda | Graphic design: Leonard von Brenndorff | Production management: Nikos Konstantakis | Production assistance: Silke Manz | PR & ÖA: Ines Langel | Photos & documentation: Alessandro De Matteis

Funded by: Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW Landesbüro Darstellende Künste -Focus Ukrainian Artists II, RheinEnergieStiftung Kultur.

Price information:

Standard - € 20.00 | Pupils, students, severely disabled persons, Cologne Pass - € 13.00 | Accompanying persons for severely disabled persons - € 0.00