Ivy is a developer of practices and performative roles in dance, music, and visual Arts. They are a natural shapeshifter, re-imagining and re-conceptualizing femininity, gender, social and race expectations through (dis)identification. Furthermore, ancestrality and spirituality are reshaped and envisioned in queer futuristic pieces featuring the artist as the protagonist most of the time. Ivy is also know as Mother Tropikahl Ivy B. Poderosa, producing events focused on an immigrant QTIBPOC public in Switzerland. Their work has been presented in the Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo, Queer Bienial II in Los Angeles, Les Urbaines in Lausanne, Eco Futures Festival in London and at the opening ceremony for the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019.
Show
Ivy Monteiro
LAS TEMPLAS – Im Rahmen vom Zürcher Theater Spektakel
In their dance piece Las Templas, Ivy Monteiro combines dance, sound and projection to evoke a utopian space which gives the opportunity for expression to those who are often denied this right.
Monteiro dedicates their artistic practice to continuously reinventing and imagining sex and genders. Raised in São Paulo, the Zurich-based choreographer and performer draws on gestures, rituals and sounds from club culture and combines them with queer spirituality, influences of the Brazilian tropicália movement and Afro-futuristic aesthetics. As the alter ego Tropikahl Poderosa, Monteiro organises events for trans and non-binary people. Since 2017, they have also been affiliated to the global vogue and ballroom scene and organise workshops and events around this culture.
Las Templas is Monteiro’s latest creation. It advocates multiple contemporaneity: a pop-cultural present, an imagined past and a desired future.
Concept, artistic direction Ivy Monteiro
Choreography Ivy Monteiro, Mandhla Ndubiwa
Performance Ivy Monteiro, Ikenna Nwaogu, Denise Palmieri, Tracy September
Music and sound design Ivy Monteiro, Tracy September
Stage and costume design Karolin Bragger
Projections Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
Lighting design Demian Jakob
Photography Fabienne Bieri
Dance mentor Mamu Tshi aka Mbulu
Graphic design Lydia Perrot, Ivy Monteiro
Oeil extérieur Keith Zenga King
Dramaturgical advisor Tanzhaus Zürich Simon Froehling
Administration and technical support Stefan Schmidlin
Production Julia Schicker, Josephine Scheibe and Verein Tropikahlismus (Ivy Monteiro & Stefan Schmidlin)
Co-production Tanzhaus Zürich
Partners Dampfzentrale Bern, ROXY Birsfelden, Zürcher Theater Spektakel
Supported by Ernst Göhner Foundation, Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art, Fonds Respect, Migros Cultural Percentage, Société Suisse des Auteurs SSA, City of Zurich Culture, Department of Culture of the Canton of Zurich and Kweer Ball
Photos © Ozelot Studios, Fabienne Bieri
