Meta gender is a Post-Queer Performance

META GENDER is the theatrical result of collective research centered on gender, body, music and performance
deconstruction.
It is born out of a commissioned work by the LUFF, the Lausanne Underground Festival in Switzerland.
META GENDER, showed in October 2012 during the festival was a big success.
The guest of honor of this LUFF edition being John WATERS, an additionnal performance and a workshop
around the gender thematic was also commissioned to DOLORES K.
“The Contra-Sexual Manifesto”, reference text of the performance accompanies the butoh dance which
imposes on the viewer, from the start, incarnation / transgression of it’s “flesh suitcase” costume (according
to the expression of Lady Jaye *).
It offers to the dancer a prosthetic body, which leaves everyone free of projecting his own body fantasy.
Made of stockings and tights (polymorphic material malleable depending of the textures which it is filled
with: cotton, foam, flour, beads, polystyrene beads), it reveals here and there another body, bloated,
overloaded, hiding unexpected and unfinished movements.
The costume becomes a new skin, cellulite, testicle, breast, penis and dildo.
The upset dance of an upset body ”mastered” by a mustachioed MC, himself unveiling the well kept
secrets of a joyfull masculinity. The whole mascaraed orchestrated to the sound of D. Dégouts music.