Tickets
Duration: approx. 40 minutes
Language: none
Sensory notes: None
Content notes: partial nudity
Accessibility: During the performance, cushions, beanbags and the floor are available for seating. If you require specific seating, please contact us in advance at kasse@dampfzentrale.ch or directly at the box office.
Following the performance, there will be a discussion about what we have seen with a member of the Supervistas.
Blood Drive II is a piece about the extremes of contemporary female self-expression. Based on the notorious «Blood Countess» Elisabeth Bathory – a figure who continues to fascinate as a symbol of obsession, power and the quest for eternal youth – it unfolds as an artistic exploration of the staging of female bodies and images.
Stierli and Hammer developed a formal choreography that combines precise structures with a movement language inspired by waacking (queer club scene in Los Angeles) and voguing (New York ballroom culture). These styles serve not as quotations, but as impulses: in Blood Drive II, their energy, competitive spirit and performative power are transformed into a formal language of their own. Through repetition, exaggeration and contrast, images emerge that oscillate between cool austerity and expressive gesture – thus revealing the extremes of female self-staging.
Credits
Performance & choreografie: Cindy Hammer & Vera Ilona Stierli
Music: Daniel Williams
Multimedia fashion design: Alexandra Boerner
Dramaturgy: Tobias Eule
Outside eye: Chris Lechner
Supporters: The resumption of Blood Drive II is sponsored by Kultur Stadt Bern and Burgergemeinde Bern.
