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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 witchhunts intertwines with global networks of care work and the exploitation of the colonised female body.
International artists Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera have collected the literally unheard 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 themselves and the audience 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 is a contemporary choreographer, dancer and visual artist based in La Union. Her work exposes the politics of the body in the service and entertainment industry from the unique socio-economic perspective of the Philippines, exploring how and under what conditions bodies move. In all her works, ranging from pole dancing and macho dancing to hostess work and Disney princess, capital is the driving force behind the movement that pushes the body into spatial geographies. In 2019, she won the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award and received in 2023 the Tabori Award International in Germany.
Venuri Perera is a choreographer, performance artist, curator and educator from Colombo, Sri Lanka, based in Amsterdam. In her solo and collaborative works, she deals with violent nationalism, patriarchy, border rituals, colonial heritage, and class. She explores the power dynamics of gaze and opacity through performative experiments in theaters, galleries and public spaces. Venuri Perera has been conceiving and curating programs for the Colombo Dance Platform since 2016, with the support of the Goethe-Institut Colombo.
„Gondolatébresztő, lenyűgöző képi és mozgásvilágú előadás. A Magic Maids egyszerre figyelmeztetés és tisztelgés: emlékeztet arra, hogy nincs nagyobb düh a világon egy lenézett nő haragjánál, miközben együttérzést és félelmet kelt a körülöttünk élő háztartási munkások iránt.” --------------------------- "Awash with ideas and fascinating imagery and movement, Magic Maids is both warning and tribute, a reminder that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, inciting both pity and fear in us for the domestic workers around us."