Technoburlesque Image Snatchers

Technoburlesque is a mute comedy of the body that mocks the rigidity of social roles. It uncritically appropriates, copies and pastes femininity, masculinity, family relationships, machismo and other degenerated social roles that are falsely considered normative. When Image Snatchers totally expose themselves and strip their social guises layer by layer, they do not arrive at the essence, but instead realise that the essence is an empty nothing and that the performed travesties are the opium that makes living bearable. This amusing play of cross-dressing and excessive behaviour is a result of great sexual and corporeal liberation from social bonds.

The Feminalz is a collective of transsexual entities who express themselves choreographically and performatively in the technoburlesque Image Snatchers. This burlesque collective, who have been working under the patronage of Emanat Institute for already ten years, have thus far created over 70 acts; successfully using the strategies of appropriation and recycling, they deliver a brand new snatching experience with each show. The collective performs roughly ten times a year, the show is tied together by the MC, occasionally guests are invited into the dance vortex. This time they will present a guest appearance by New York burlesque artist Peekaboo Pointe, who describes her work as: “By being naked on stage I reveal my own sexuality; it’s danger and allure that seduce the audience into an unexpected conversation about passion, power and feminism.”