MAKING OF A MAN
dance/performance
THU 18.12.2025
8:00pm — 9:00pm
Premiere
Produktionshaus NAXOS
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A person sits with legs apart on a white cube in a brightly lit room. They wear a white shirt, grey trousers, white socks, and sneakers. Behind them, a projection is cast onto the wall: two oversized male figurines with bare torsos and shorts, positioned to the left and right of the person. The staging appears striking and ironic—the real person is framed between the two artificial body images. The scene plays with notions of body norms, gender roles, and mediated projections.
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Are there surtitles or subtitles? In which language?
In German
Lecture Performance in English with German surtitles A dancer, a projection screen, a live camera, a pair of silicone abs, and the question: How does a body “make” masculinity?
Who is allowed to make masculinity, and what potential lies in shaking the seemingly carved-in-stone codes of masculinity?
Through pop culture, politics, and personal interviews, Making of a Man moves between TED Talk and gender manifesto.
Choreography/Concept- Stage + Sound design performers: Quindell Orton
Dramaturgy: Maxwell McCarthy
Costume: Louis Caspar Schmitt
Creative producer: Rat & Tat Kulturbüro
Set construction: Klaus Hammer
Photos: Gabriela Neeb
Video in dialogue with David Ikenna Okegwo
The guest performance is made possible by the Network of Independent Theatres (NFT). Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) through the program Verbindungen fördern of the German Association of Independent Performing Arts (BFDK). The project is made possible by the Bavarian Association for Contemporary Dance (BLZT) with funds from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, the Munich Rainbow Foundation, and the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich. It is also funded by the Association of Independent Performing Arts Bavaria e.V. as part of the process funding within the “Support Package for Independent Arts 2023”, with funds from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts. With additional support from Playground GbR, Pathos Theater, and GoDrag Festival Munich.
Further dates:
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FRI 19.12. | 8:00pm
Produktionshaus NAXOS