SUN 22 MARCH, 1-3pm
South East Dance
The Dance Space
2 Market Square
Circus Street
Brighton, BN2 9AS
Pay What You Can
£3 – £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 (vegan) lunch.
Butch Tribute is shown as a triple bill consisting of the three dance pieces Flirt, Roses and Flannel Dream on Saturday 21st of March.
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.
All food will be vegan – and If you have any dietary requirements or allergies, please let us know here: programming@southeastdance.org.uk
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.