Performing Gender is a project created jointly by the Comitato Provinciale Arcigay Il Cassero / Gender Bender Festival (Italy), the Dutch Dance Festival (Netherlands), Paso a 2 Plataforma Coreográfica Asociación Cultural (Spain) and Domino / Queer Zagreb (Croatia).
Performing Gender uses artistic and cultural tools to encourage reflection on gender and different sexual orientation, which it considers to be sources of values and enriching to the whole of European society.
In order to carry out the project, every year its committee invites sixteen performing artists from four countries to engage in an international dialogue on these issues during their residency period, exploring the representation of new political and cultural identities through different art forms. Every city that takes part in the project (Bologna, Maastricht, Madrid and Zagreb) hosts a group of four artists from each of the partner countries. During the first year four international workshops, one for each city, focused on research, exchanges and face-to-face meetings. In this second year the artists have produced works to be shown in different European museums as part of their collections, in order to portray new forms of identity to a wider audience.
Through its mobility programme, AC/E is supporting this project for another year by facilitating the presence of the Spanish artist Cristina Henríquez, one of the four performers chosen to be part of the group of artists whose work is being shown at the Museo d’Arte Moderno in Bologna.
Cristina Henríquez holds degrees in Contemporary Dance from the Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza in Madrid (RCPDM) and in Classical Ballet from the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático y Baile in Córdoba. In 2003 she set up the company SomoSQuien together with Jorge Crecis and Lucía Rey, to which she devotes most of her creative energy. In 2012 she took part in the In-Presentable Dance and Performance Festival in Madrid with her work Materia Gris yTaxonomía de la inmovilización (Grey matter and taxonomy of immobilisation).
Performing Gender uses artistic and cultural tools to encourage reflection on gender and different sexual orientation, which it considers to be sources of values and enriching to the whole of European society.
In order to carry out the project, every year its committee invites sixteen performing artists from four countries to engage in an international dialogue on these issues during their residency period, exploring the representation of new political and cultural identities through different art forms. Every city that takes part in the project (Bologna, Maastricht, Madrid and Zagreb) hosts a group of four artists from each of the partner countries. During the first year four international workshops, one for each city, focused on research, exchanges and face-to-face meetings. In this second year the artists have produced works to be shown in different European museums as part of their collections, in order to portray new forms of identity to a wider audience.
Through its mobility programme, AC/E is supporting this project for another year by facilitating the presence of the Spanish artist Cristina Henríquez, one of the four performers chosen to be part of the group of artists whose work is being shown at the Museo d’Arte Moderno in Bologna.
Cristina Henríquez holds degrees in Contemporary Dance from the Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza in Madrid (RCPDM) and in Classical Ballet from the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático y Baile in Córdoba. In 2003 she set up the company SomoSQuien together with Jorge Crecis and Lucía Rey, to which she devotes most of her creative energy. In 2012 she took part in the In-Presentable Dance and Performance Festival in Madrid with her work Materia Gris yTaxonomía de la inmovilización (Grey matter and taxonomy of immobilisation).