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
MIRA
Two bodies on a journey through space and time. Two Black bodies, each telling their own stories. These stories revolve around dissidence, racialisation and repression. Over time, these stories intermingle until an encounter becomes inevitable - it seems almost pre-programmed. But by whom? What forces are at play?
Ivy Monteiro, a Swiss-based choreographer and performer, and Wellington Gadelha, a choreographer and performer from Ivy's home region in Brazil, meet in their joint piece MIRA. Using vogue and dances from the Afro-diaspora in north-east Brazil, they explore where their emotional geographies overlap and how they can communicate with each other - perhaps even attempt to merge. In a swirl of symbols and ritual movement patterns, they unleash a powerful, pulsating work.
- Age recommendation: Ages 14+
Concept, direction, dramaturgy and performance Ivy Monteiro, Wellington Gadelha
Sound design Tracy September
Light design Demian Jakob
Video mapping and visuals Rafa Diniz
Costumes Rafael Kouto
Stage design Iris Rohr
Picture Priscila Barros
Assistant choreography Edivaldo Batista
Assistant costumes Yumi Ikeda Ferretti
Assistant stage design Lenz Schnell
Co-dramaturgy Thereza Rocha
Dramaturgical support Tanzhaus Zürich Simon Froehling
Mentoring Andréa Bardawil
Sensorial dramaturgy Meloe Gennai
Fundraising Aline Schmid
Production Associação Tropikahlismus, Plataforma Afrontamento
Coproduction Tanzhaus Zürich
Supported by Last Tango, Porto Dragão, Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Landis & Gyr Stiftung
Project accompanied by Danse & Dramaturgie (D&D CH), a programme initiated by Théâtre Sévelin 36 Lausanne in cooperation with Dampfzentrale Bern, ROXY Birsfelden, Südpol Luzern, Tanzhaus Zürich, TU-Théâtre de l’Usine Genève and supported by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council and SSA Société Suisse des Auteurs
