In The Mermaid Manifesto, the audience is invited into a watery world, where eight mermaids attempt to turn themselves in human women.
Through a series of embodied acts and transformation rituals – ranging from dance routines to bedtime stories to a medical surgery and childbirth – the performers and the audience explore what it means to be a young woman today.
The project was initiated by 4th year Amsterdam School of Theater and Dance graduating directing student Kaya Korabiowska-Dean and developed together with a crew of all women-identifying dancers, mimers and singers. The material is based around the makers’ personal experiences, as well as the classic fairytale The Little Mermaid, its Polish horror-film-adaptation The Lure, and the philosophical theory of hydrofeminism.
Role: Co-creator, improvising singer and performer in ensemble
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Artistic team
Concept & direction: Kaya Korabiowska-Dean (graduating student Regie Opleiding)
Performance & co-creation: Wiktoria Kołcon, Sofia Norman, Ina Wojdyła, Leonor de Meer, Wenzhu Song, Hannah Badura, Vanessa Guinadi and Kaya Korabiowska-Dean
Link to full credits on the website of ATD
‘Vrouw-zijn herontdekken in een vervreemdende onderwaterwereld’
