Rolling In The Pink

Rolling in the Pink is research project on the taboo emotion of female anger, that funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR, Berlin Germany - and took place during spring 2023. 

 

The research is the practical installment of the master thesis THE DRAMATURGY OF THE DEAD FEMALE BODY|Femicide Is Not Poetic, that I worked on during my master studies in Dramaturgy at Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg. The thesis demonstrates why we need to bring on stage new fiction heroines and how the emotion of anger could be a dramaturgical entrance for innovative perspectives regarding the female characters. Having as reference the motto that “an angry person cares for the things to be fair” the research comes with a few questions on the behavioral stereotypical characteristics some emotions carry in relation to gender. 

How could we approach the emotion of anger as a dramaturgical entrance to gender discrimination thematics? Is female anger a static and a one-dimensional emotion when it comes to its form and to its vocal or physical expression - as often is being stereotyped? Does anger have gender?

 

What are the contemporary heroines doing with their anger on stage? 

In the Rolling in the Pink research project, the intention is to create concepts of anger that could survive in the dramaturgical realm of a stage performance and could sculpt the stage persona of the “new woman”. Being influenced by the activity of the current feminist wave and having in mind in particular references a.o. of Donna Haraway, Judith Butler, and Bell Hooks, the project imagines the “new woman” as a fictional body that can encapsulate the collective anger and will consist of diverse femininities and female characteristics. Designing an aesthetic collage in between docu theater, lecture performance, stand-up comedy, and the chorus from the Greek ancient drama, this research wishes to navigate through performative formats that capture the diffusion of social identities .