TUE 24 MARCH, 4-6pm
VSSL studio
Unit 8, 50 Resolution Way
Deptford, SE8 4AL
Pay What You Can
£5 / £10 / £15
(suggested price £10)
The Norwegian dancers and choreographers Marte Sterud and Ann Christin Kongsness will share the motivation behind their ongoing performance series Butch Tribute and their interest in exploring queer female masculinity. This conversation will take place over a shared dinner.
The performance series Butch Tribute consists of the three dance pieces; Flirt, Roses, Flannel Dream (2021) and the text-based performance A Butch is a Butch is a Butch is a Butch (2023). Flirt will be shown at APT Gallery on Tue 24 March as part of the Fest en Fest opening event.
Butch Tribute
The performance series Butch Tribute is an artistic and political work exploring what a butch is and can be, with and by the Norwegian dancers and choreographers Marte Sterud and Ann-Christin Kongsness. The term butch is used about masculine women in the queer community – a group that is often marginalized or made invisible. With this project, Sterud/Kongsness wants to diversify the representation of butches, by embodying different representations of queer, female masculinity.
Tickets include a meal. All food will be vegan. If you have any dietary requirements or allergies, please let us know here: michaelkitchinproducer@gmail.com
Access
VSSL is accessed from Resolution Way via a raised, fenced path. There are 3 steps. Step free access can be found via the carpark on Tidemill Way. The studio entrance door is wide and wheelchair accessible. There is an accessible toilet within the studio block. If you have any access requirements, please email michaelkitchinproducer@gmail.com.
ARTISTS
Marte Sterud and Ann-Christin Kongsness (Sterud/Kongsness) connect through their personal and theoretical interest in the relationship between dance and the body, gender and performativity. In their performance Soft Manifesto (2015), they explored the androgynous and ambiguous body, with a playful and fluid relationship to gender expression, moving in and out of different bodily states. In 2018, they organized Queer Dance Art – a conversation series (www.skeivdansekunst.no) during Oslo Pride, with contributions from sixteen dance artists who actively take a stand on questions around gender expression and sexuality. In 2021 they premiered the ongoing performance series Butch Tribute – a celebration and exploration of queer, female masculinity.