Magic Maids
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Both archetypal female figures, “the witch” and “the maid”, are two poles of the same misogynistic matrix: despised and feared at the same time. In a solemn and sly incantation, Magic Maids demystifies the many ways in which the history of European witch-hunts intertwines with global networks of care work and the exploitation of the colonised female body. Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera have collected unheard-of stories of care workers in the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, the echoes of which now haunt their bodies. Magic Maids is both a ritual and a dance performance: by embodying the ambivalent female figures, the dancers pledge to fighting against the invisibility of care work and structures that despise women. In an evening of dance, magic and struggle, the broom no longer symbolises oppression, but feminist resistance. — Eisa Jocson & Venuri Perera
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Concept, creation, dramaturgy and performance
Eisa Jocson, Venuri Perera
Sound design
Soraya Bonaventure
Lighting design
Ariana Battaglia
Artistic advice
Rasa Alksnyte, Tang Fu Kuen
Text advice
Ruhanie Perera
Spiritual advice
Nenet Ocson Babaylan-Vaigaland
Creative presence
Arco Renz
In-house dramaturgical support
Anna Wagner, Alexandra Hennig
Production advice
Sandro Lunin
Technical production
Seok Hui Yap
Producers
Katja Armknecht, Anne Kleiner
Production managers
Greta Katharina Klein, Paula Elena Noack
Produced by
Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm
Co-produced by
Frascati Producties (supported by Ammodo), Tanzquartier Wien, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, SPRING Performing Arts Festival, Festival Theaterformen, DDD - Festival Dias da Dança, Kampnagel, Arsenic - Centre d’art scénique contemporain, La briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne, Points Communs - nouvelle scène nationale, Cergy-Pontoise / Val d’Oise, Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay
Residencies
Kaserne Basel, Puón Institute Philippines, Goethe-Institut Sri Lanka, Dance Nucleus in collaboration with Studio Plesungan as part of ARTEFACT Creative Residency and Colomboscope Interdisciplinarity Arts Festival 2024
Funded as part of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media and the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture.
With gratitude to the wonderful and wise working women who generously shared their knowledge and stories with us.
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