fem:me - eine politische Tanzperformance

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

What the young bride Pucki set herself 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, while on the other, she was once 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.

Saturday 07.03.2026
15:30 Workshop
'Woman*: A workshop on desire, identity and norms' with Kelly Cavalcanti

5 pm Performance
"fem:me - a political dance performance" by DIPHTHONG Kollektiv.
Followed by a discussion with the team, moderated by Benjamin Thele.

Free admission

CAST

• Choreography: Stephanie Felber & Nikos Konstantakis
• Dance: Nataliia Bulatova
• Dramaturgy: Nele Beckmann
• Video art & sound composition: Lisa Reutelsterz
• Costume design: Lilli Manz
• Stage design: Eleonora Pedretti
• Speakers: Rebecca Jung, Hildegard Meier
• Technical direction & lighting design: Daniel Swoboda
• Graphic design: Studio Dornbach
• Photos & documentation: Alessandro De Matteis
• Workshop: Kelly Cavalcanti
• Moderation: Benjamin Thele
  

PRODUCTION
fem:me is a production of DIPHTHONG.art e.V. Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW Landesbüro Darstellende Künste-Focus Ukrainian Artists II & RheinEnergieStiftung Kultur.

The guest performance at Einstein Kultiur is sponsored by the association Frau-Kunst-Politik e.V.

About the collective HERE
Info about the play: HERE
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Questions, further information or registrations toinfo@diphthong.art.