Contemporary Shadow Theater

DOWNLOAD our newly released GUIDE: Behind the Shadows: Light.

This guide offers a first insight into the world of Shadow Theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed and ways of combining both.

We share our ideas, questions and experiences working on the topic of gender-based violence from queer and feminist positions.

The Origins of this Guide

Many threads are interwoven to create the fabric of this guide. Evan Hastings with his Shadow Liberation method has been the first to combine Shadow Theatre and Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) to address gender-based violence. Independently, Silvio Gioia (Shadow Theatre artist and pedagogue: www.silviogioia.com) and Claudia Signoretti (feminist TO practitioner of Parteciparte TO company: www.parteciparte.com/it) made their experiments with Shadow Theatre and TO around feminism. Magoa Hanke, Linda Raule (theatre practitioner, dance pedagogue and social scientist) and Joschka Köck (TO practitioner and social scientist) from TdU Wien, got inspired by Shadow Liberation and integrated Shadow Theatre into their feminist TO practice. Magoa (TO, Shadow Theatre, somatics, dance, drag: www.magoa.eu) is bringing queer*feminist perspectives and a trauma-aware focus on the power of pleasure into our work. The guide would have been impossible without the warmth and amazing shadow puppetry and light magic of Anusc Castiglioni (Shadow Theatre artist: www.anusc.it). This guide is a fruit of the journey of our intercultural team.

 We are happy to put together a shadow theater program specifically for your needs. 

From a low-threshold introduction to the world of contemporary shadow theater in the form of a shadow theater performance or a short workshop to the design of a one-year advanced training course on the techniques of contemporary shadow theater and a deep immersion in this art, everything is possible.

Feel free to/Please contact us at: info@magoa.eu

We will explore our personal identity, social roles and communication patterns using creative writing, theater and bodywork. Then we will use feminist theater methods, improvisation and contemporary shadow theater to develop a collective performance. We will playfully explore the the possibilities that shadow theater opens up. Which stage situations and light sources? Which techniques, materials etc. can be used? And how do we want to bring our research to the stage?

FACILITATOR & DIRECTOR: Magoa Hanke

WHERE: Vienna, Austria

WHEN: Current dates on request

REGISTRATION & INFO: info@magoa.eu

There is a maximum of 20 places. Please register early.