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Carriageworks: Post-punk show on gender identity is like a dance party
Carriageworks: Post-punk show on gender identity is like a dance party
MDLSX plays at Carriageworks from March 16-18.
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“I’m tired of being asked if I’m a man or a woman,” says Italian performer Silvia Calderoni, sipping an afternoon glass of prosecco at Carriageworks. “This should never be the first question. There are other questions.”
Quote:Calderoni is in Sydney to perform MDLSX, an 80-minute, solo deep-dive into gender and intersex identity created by the provocative Italian theatre collective Motus.Calderoni has already been questioned multiple times by airport security (“are you a man or a woman?”) as MDLSX tours the world. Calderoni sees the question in the eyes of strangers on the street.
Quote:“I’ve had the question all my life. Some days it is painful. Other days it’s not a problem. It is my life. I don’t want to define me. Sometimes I dress like a man, sometimes like a woman. I don’t want a label or a classification.”Quote:An actor, dancer and DJ, Calderoni’s performance in MDLSX questions ideas of freedom, transformation and fluidity in gender and sexuality. She (her Motus colleagues refer to her with the feminine pronoun) performs alone on stage in front of home movies from her childhood and adolescence, mixing her own gender-fluid story with that of Calliope, the fictional intersex character raised as a girl in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Middlesex. -
3 Replies
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thanks for putting this thing on. This is exactly my theme. I am tired of having to be a boy or a girl. I want to be able to be – just be. No boxes no stereo types not being asked what gender I am today.
Juliette xx
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or how am I being me today.
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Sounds like my kind of person. What a pleasure to hear someone say it out loud (although more and more people appear to be reaching the same conclusion)
Veronica
