Gender Bender is an international festival linked to new representations of the body, gender identity and sexual orientation. It is a multidisciplinary event that features film screenings, dance and theatre performances, visual arts exhibitions and installations, literary meetings, lectures, concerts and live performances by DJs. This year’s edition runs from 31 October to 8 November.
Gender Bender is organised by the Cassero LGBT Center in Bologna as part of Bologna Contemporanea, the network of festivals that operates in the city.
Through its Mobility grants, AC/E is supporting the participation of the Spanish company Kor’sia, which will present Yellow Place. The two choreographers who have designed the show (Antonio de Rosa and Mattia Ruso) won the recent Madrid choreography competition for this piece.
Colour was the point of departure for Yellow Place, in which two strangers meet and rapidly reach the moment of greatest intensity in their relationship. The play is divided into three parts that represent three stages of joint growth. The first marks the lovers’ meeting, the excitement of becoming a couple. The relationship then develops into a neurotic situation of dependence in which one of them does all the loving and the other person only truly loves himself. The last part features the idyllic pas de deux that precedes the farewell, where everything is beautiful. Prepared to abandon themselves without realising, they exalt their love like the alchemist who distils the most prized essence.
Gender Bender is organised by the Cassero LGBT Center in Bologna as part of Bologna Contemporanea, the network of festivals that operates in the city.
Through its Mobility grants, AC/E is supporting the participation of the Spanish company Kor’sia, which will present Yellow Place. The two choreographers who have designed the show (Antonio de Rosa and Mattia Ruso) won the recent Madrid choreography competition for this piece.
Colour was the point of departure for Yellow Place, in which two strangers meet and rapidly reach the moment of greatest intensity in their relationship. The play is divided into three parts that represent three stages of joint growth. The first marks the lovers’ meeting, the excitement of becoming a couple. The relationship then develops into a neurotic situation of dependence in which one of them does all the loving and the other person only truly loves himself. The last part features the idyllic pas de deux that precedes the farewell, where everything is beautiful. Prepared to abandon themselves without realising, they exalt their love like the alchemist who distils the most prized essence.