With their first full show QUEERDOM the Hamburg based collective House of
Brownies combines physical, visual and vocal elements in a complex but
inclusive experimental arrangement. Emergence / Becoming are not hidden as
stylistic devices, but worked out. Thus new forms of being together emerge,
questions of authenticity and identity are reformulated in a moving way. The
collective swirls many more binary orders: Gender, race, class and diverse
dance styles.
One source of inspiration are the poems of Audre Lorde, who was an American
writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet and civil rights
activist. She was a self-described "black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother,
warrior, poet," who dedicated her life and talents to confronting all forms of
injustice, as she believed there could be "no hierarchy of oppressions". Her
poems and prose largely deal with issues related to civil rights, feminism,
lesbianism, illness and disability, and the exploration of black female identity
and some parts of her work are used in this dance performance.