24-27 June
Bodies:On:Live
Magdalena:On:Line 2021
"Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next." Arundhati Roy (2020)
Bodies:On:Live – Magdalena:On:Line is the first online Magdalena festival celebrating the work of women in contemporary theatre and performance. It aims to (re)connect women all over the world via the internet, and to ask: What is the way forward?
Participating Artists
Amaranta Osorio, Annie Abrahams, Antonieta Muñoz, Barbara Carvalho, Bettina Fung, Bianca Mastrominico, Brigitte Cirla, Bruna Gusberti, Cheng Nien Yuan, Christina Papagiannouli, Clara Gomes, Cristina Castrillo, Dawn Albinger, Deborah Hunt, Dijana Milosević, Dimple B. Shah, Eugenia Cano, Eva Ursprung and Schaumbad Freies Atelierhaus Graz, Frederika Tsai, Geddy Aniksdal, Gilly Adams, Helen Chadwick, Helen Varley Jamieson, Jadranka Andjelić, Jana Korb, Jill Greenhalgh, Julia Varley, Julie Robson, Karla Ptáček, Karolina Spaić, Kordula Lobeck de Fabris, Lois Weaver, Luciana Martuchelli, Maria Porter, Maria X, Maristella Martella, Meg Ella, Miljana Perić, Naná Sodré, Nasim Khosravi, Natalia Marcet, Olive Nieto, Parvarthy Baul, Rakini Devi, Roz Borley, Sara Larsdotter Hallqvist and Teater interAkt, Shabari Rao, Suzon Fuks, Verónica Moraga, Vicki Smith, Violeta Luna, Ya-Ling Peng, Younghee Park, and Zoe Gudović.
Festival Volunteers
Chiara Menozzi, Constanza Puente, Elaine Vaan Hogue, Eugenia Cano, Ileana Garcia, Irlanda Mainou Montañez, Karen Remy, Kerensa Dewantoro, Karla Ptacek, Lauren Boissonnet, Marianne Kjær Klausen, and Száva Szántó.
Our Team
Christina Papagiannouli
is Research Fellow in Performance and Interactive and Immersive Technology at the University of South Wales (UK).
Elizabeth de Roza
is an artist-scholar, performance maker, theatre director and actor-movement trainer. She focuses on embodied experiences, thinking and practice through making, embodied cognition and cross-cultural performance at the intersections of both decolonial and feminist theories
Helen Varley Jamieson
is a theatre-maker, digital artist, activist and writer from New Zealand, living in Munich, who combines her art practice with active participation in feminist, open source and digital arts networks.
Janaina Matter
is an actress, writer, teacher and activist from Brazil, dedicated to physical training, especially the Suzuki Method. She is co-founder of Subita Theater Company since 2007 and runs the art space Alfaiataria in Curitiba, Brazil.
Karin Ahlström
is an actress, theatre director, educator specialised in physical expression. She writes and directs the theatre company Témpore. She teaches 'Mindsetting', integrating her studies in Psychology & Montessori Pedagogy.
Khai
is a Malay-Muslim independent producer from Singapore and is currently based in London. Khai's works are mainly in theatre, but they sometimes spill over into live art, dance, music and even circus.
Suzon Fuks
has a multidisciplinary background in performing, visual and digital arts. She is questioning how we, as humans, advance technology, without giving up our sense of humanity, and value for the environment.
Zoe Gudović
is a feminist, lesbian, multidisciplinary art practitioner, activist. Theater educator, performer, drag king, toilet artist, she combines artistic and activist methods to change the existing consciousness and social relations.