Juice

In the organizer's words:

In 1820, the nineteen-year-old Madame Lefort was preparing for her exhibition as an "irresistible attraction". She is described as a "perfect blending" of the sexes. Over the next hundred years, medicine will declare inter* people from a biological phenomenon to an anatomical impossibility. Expert opinion after expert opinion, the existence of inter* people will be dissected, examined and finally made impossible. One hundred years after Madame Lefort's appearance, the Louvre in Paris draws a spell around a statue entitled The Sleeping Hermaphrodite. The young god - and namesake for inter* persons until the 20th century - had been touched so often in secret that his contours faded.

For JUICE, River Roux enters a transparent space. The gazes directed at her can rarely decide between desire and disgust, between lust and shame. Surrounded by an audience, she becomes an exhibit, an observer and a desired object. Roux uses fragments from medical reports, press reports, court rulings, myths and pop culture to examine the fascination with bodies in the 'in-between'.

JUICE is a border crossing, as much exhibition as self-empowerment. In her solo performance, the performer confronts the desire for categorization and searches for an existence beyond the fetish.

A production of Theaterschiff Heilbronn and the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin

With River Roux

Concept & Performance: River Roux
Dramaturgy: Bibiana Mendes & Lili Hering
Stage & Costume: Teresa Heiß
Composition & Sound: Olive Mondegreen
Production: Tobias Frühauf, Philipp Wolpert