POETiK P

The POETiK P team creates a lustful performance, a dedication to their pulsating bodies, a celebration of poetic demands – yes, a protest song for sexual self-determination!

The audience is invited into the «pluriverse of pussybilities» and can move freely around the space. The atmosphere is reminiscent of a feminist striptease club. A DJ warms up the mood: Poom Poom, a performer dances her way out and the beat quickens. This is followed by a composition of dance, text and sound that nestles around the audience, encouraging them to move and rearrange. The four performers sometimes move gently, sometimes dynamically, sometimes they talk uninhibitedly about their erotic desires, sometimes they blurt out historical facts and then they let their voices and bodies shake to the rhythm of the music. They interweave perspectives from the Congo DRC, Rwanda and Switzerland. The pearls shine and soar to new heights. They symbolise lust and cohesion. The festival of tenderness is heralded, and now the dancefloor opens up to everyone.

Initiated by Donya Speaks, the team (Aline Amike, Soukey, Nina Balmer, Souzy Muisha, Natacha Muziramakenga, Julia Urech, Nina Jaun and Eulalie Déguénon) has been collaborating in various formats in Switzerland and Rwanda since 2022. Under the motto ‘the personal is the political’, they scrutinise the hegemonic narratives about their sexuality(ies) and want to understand and change them in a cultural-historical context. How can a self-proclaimed language be found (or invented)? What does it take to be transnational and feminist? In the collective of the sisterhood, they plead for more poetry, care and inwardness in a world in which primarily male, Eurocentric and supposedly objective knowledge enjoys validity.