Somatic Drag is a concoction of deep somatic competence and drag.
Olympia Bukkakis (the queen) and Maria F. Scaroni (the witch), breed a queer child made of exquisite interoceptive authenticity, politicized felt sense, real personas and cunty marxism.

Bukkakis uses her 16 years experience in drag to teach basic drag techniques as well as more experimental and weird approaches including: lip sync, persona creation, applied/embodied (gender) theory, gendered movement and short form performance developing (making a number).
In the practice, Scaroni guides participants through post-scientific journeys organizing attention around pulsation and connective tissue, to find entry points to collective ecstasy via the built-in technologies of the body (touch, breath, gravity, entrainment a.o.). Dancing is articulated as queer matter, as an exquisite form of misbehavior.

This workshop are held at Dansehallerne, Franciska Clausens Plads 27 DK-1799 Copenhagen V.

Dansehallerne has an elevator with step-free access to all floors. Accessible and gender-neutral toilets and wardrobes are available on the ground floor.

We kindly ask you to arrive 15 minutes prior to class in time for check-in with the QR code on your ticket.

All members can participate in Dansehallerne’s training activities – a year-round program with approximately 5 days of training per week and now also workshops every other week. This is for all professional members regardless of background in dance training, and it is also possible to participate in a drop-in class.

International guests can participate in training for free for up to 1 month. If you have comments or good tips for the training program, you can always send an email to the curators; trainingcurator@dansehallerne.dk

Queen of the Heavens and of the Earth, Empress of Despair, and Architect of Your Eternal
Suffering, Olympia Bukkakis is a drag queen working in theatre, dance, and queer nightlife. She
kick-started Melbourne’s alternative drag scene with her party Pandora’s Box. Since moving to
Berlin in 2012, she has organized, curated, and moderated various queer performance nights
(Get Fucked, Apocalypse Tonight and Queens Against Borders). As choreographer she staged
several works, Gender Euphoria, Too Much, Boys Night Out, replay, a.o. Olympia wrote a.o.
publications A Case for the Abolition of Men (HKW/Counter Readings of the Body)

Maria F. Scaroni is a Berlin-based dance artist. She creates and interprets choreographic works
rooted in improvisational practices and altered states of consciousness. She re-purposes postmodern dance legacies towards technologies for mutual empowerment, crossbreeding somatic
practices and anti-oppression frameworks. Maria performs in Meg Stuart’s works with whom
she collaborates since 2009. After collective Lecken, an erogenous queer rave, she has been
hosting Social Pleasure Center, a community space for somatic post-activism.