BANANA PRIDE
BRAZILIAN ANTI-FASCIST CABARET
SUNDAY l MARCH 22, 2020
Festsaal Kreuzberg - Am Flutgraben 2
A bored Finnish girl tries to de-stress in a sauna. Her theater collective - all Brazilians except for her - is devising an extremely political show due to the situation in their home country. She is struggling. This is a very hard task for her. She looks for a strong political voice, alas, in vain. What can she say when her struggles are nothing compared to those of her counterparts?
Banana Pride™ is a cabaret of failure. Your host, an indigenous Carmen Miranda whose childhood dream was to be a blonde actress in Germany. With personal stories and a series of comical vignettes, we embrace the bizarre images that others have placed upon our bodies and bring it to the level of absurdity.
We denounce the reality that is hidden, ignored, or controlled under these clichés and stereotypes and this 2D "Bananaland". Banana Pride™ is a party. It’s an exaggeration. It’s an exaggerated party. It's an attempt to dance over a volcano, to keep up the happiness while trying to survive under fascism.
Each number of our cabaret tries to juggle the parallel realities of a genocide of indigenous people, the destruction of the Amazon, and the objectification of Latinas; while at the same time turning it into a carnival parade.
ABA NAIA COLLECTIVE
ABA NAIA is an international Berlin-based collective created in 2017 to investigate female comicality, as well as to draw attention to themes such as feminism, gender, heritage, sense of belonging and the decolonisation of the body. Some of the questions currently guiding our artistic research are: how can women produce comicality through their sexuality? What does our concept of post-porn clowning look like? Where is the border between comicality and awkwardness? How far can a woman go with a certain action?
WE CAN DO IT MOANING is the first project of ABA NAIA, which premiered in April 2018 in the “The Expo: A Showcase of Wahlberliner” at “English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center”. ABA NAIA returned to this festival in 2019 with their newest show: Banana Pride™, created in collaboration with writer-performer Paola Pilnik. The cofounders are Kysy Fischer (Brazil), Rafuska Marks (Brazil) and Teija Vaittinen (Finland).
TEAM
Kysy Fischer (Director, Perfomer)
Paola Pilnik (Dramaturgy, Perfomer)
Teija Vaittinen (Perfomer)
Rafuska Marks (Perfomer)
Thais Nepomuceno (Light Designer)
