What to Expect

WORKSHOP: How do we use Drag into our Performance? ██

By AMADIVA ꧂

Workshop How do we use Drag into our Performance? Led by AMADIVA invites the exploration of “Drag” not just as an entertainment show, but as a powerful performing art tool for self-creating, storytelling, and questioning societal norms. Through a process that combines experimentation, practice, and sharing of experience, participants will understand how Drag can be used to expand the boundaries of body, sound, and expression. This workshop opens space to participants. Together we explored creating a “persona”, using costumes, makeup, movement and the power of stage presence to transform the body into a space of experimentation and challenge predetermined identities. The dragon here is not limited to masculinity but to play with the smoothness of gender, status and image instead.

Workshops also ask the question of how we can use drag into our performance arts—whether it’s character-building, amplifying body language, or using drag as a tool to judge power and social structure. How do we use Drag into our Performance? It is both a space of learning and unwinding, where participants can experiment, create and discover new potentials of expression through edible art in their own way.