The Slut Project
Where goes the borders for when women are considered to be vamp or “too” extroverted, and what exactly lies in the image of the free-spirited Nordic woman?
4.8.17
4.8.17
8 p.m.
The Artistic Rsearch
With The Slut Project, Bravo Toga examine the concept of slut shaming as well as doggy style as a meaningful choreographic form and as a sex position.
Slut shaming is not just calling someone a “slut” in real life or on the internet, it's also the structures that lead us, both men and women, to think prejudiced thoughts about women who behave or dress sexy and uncensored.
Bravo Toga will shed light on these structures and deliver their analysis with a wild hodgepodge of electronic music, lyric poetry, costumes in transformation, choreography and humor. Where goes the borders for when women are considered to be vamp or “too” extroverted, and what exactly lies in the image of the free-spirited Nordic woman? The symbol of this discourse is the “doggy style”, both as the investigative posture often seen in modern dance, but which is also a prominent sex position.
The artists
Bravo Toga is a Nordic performing arts collective, which is concerned with conceptuality and physical theatre.
In 2016, the group created the performance The Monica Project, which is a lighter interactive retreat, a scenic “get well soon” short about Monica Lewinsky. Bravo Toga believes that abstract and experimental performances give audiences a more associative and honest experience of a given subject, and that the most effective way to be normcritical is through humor and body language.
Contributors: Anna Kuusamo (DK)/Lena Bruun Bondeson (DK)/Sara Ribbenstedt (SE)/Bernt Karsten Sannerud (NO)/Olivia Schrøder (DK)/Linn Henriksson-Strååt (SE)/Sara Bergsmark (SE).