Making of a Man
Quindell Orton (Germany)
29.07 | 21:30 | Mikis Theodorakis theatre
Tickets: 13€ regular – 10€ student, unemployed
Quindell Orton is a dance artist based in Munich, Germany and Athens Greece performing, researching, facilitating and making. Born on Noongar land, in what is now called Australia, Quindell holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and works since 2008 as a freelance artist. Quindell collaborates since many years with Anna Konjetzky, has toured internationally to MoveMe, Reaktor Shanghai, Sommerszene Salzburg, Bipod Festival, Prisma Festival amongst others. Quindell is interested in viewing the body in its sociopolitical contexts, in how the materiality of the body can transform and how the body can be used as a reflective tool.
One dancer, a projection screen, a live camera, a set of silicone abs, and a question: How does a body ‘do’ masculinity?
‘Making of a Man’ starts out like a TED talk, navigating through pop culture, politics, and personal interviews, before becoming a more slippery exploration of the leaky containers we build for masculine identity. Who gets to ‘do’ masculinity and how, and what potential lies in the unsettling of masculinity’s rigidly chiseled codes?
Choreography, Conept: Quindell Orton
Dramaturgy: Maxwell McCarthy
Performer: Quindell Orton
Stage and sound design: Quindell Orton
Video: in dialogue with David Ikenna Okegwo
Costume: Louis Caspar Schmitt
Creative producer: Rat & Tat Kulturbüro
Set construction: Klaus Hammer
Photos: Gabriela Neeb
Thanks to: Anna Konjetzky, Sahra Huby, Lisa-Marie Meinig, Sergej Maingardt
Interview partners: Maxwell McCarthy, Paula- Irene Villa Braslavsky, Bas van der Kruk, Jonaid Khodabhakshi, Kamill Lippa, Ashton Butcher, Chrispascal Englund Braun, Voice by Kylie
Supported by: Goethe-Institute and the City of Munich Kultur Referat
29 July | 21:30 | Mikis Theodorakis theatre
Quindell Orton – Making of a Man