Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company (USA) Untitled Feminist Show

45% dance 24% theatre 31% battle of the sexes 0% clothes

Six charismatic stars from New York’s theatre, dance, neo-burlesque underground, a far cry from Broadway, perform this show that is somewhere between militant happening, liberating choreography and cabaret. In her most recent work, the Korean-American director Young Jean Lee once again questions cultural identities and confronts us acutely and humorously with our own prejudices.
“Untitled Feminist Show” takes us into a world in which female bodies are not constrained by certain roles, but are instead free, to embody any identity, to try them out, to change again. The uninterrupted nudity of the protagonists – far from being shocking or titillating – comically and irreversibly undermines social constructions of gender and makes it hard to project overhasty categorisations on the cast members, not all of whom identify as female. The body does not have to determine one’s identity.
Young Jean Lee has taken the feminist movement of New York as a starting point, without trying to define what feminism means today, indeed, not even fighting for a contemporary feminist argument. Instead, the aim is to create a common utopian feminist experience. An experience beyond gender and sex, inspiring and bolstering.