KONTROL is an intense experiment on competing with your own body. Former swimmer Mai reminds us how our bodies are shaped with certain preconditions of the ideal physique. Supervised by sports scientist Patrick Rump , she trains her body to achieve its maximum performance through science-based-training that also high level athletes are utilizing. Why: in order for the body to be, or to remain visible it must acquire numerous images. The process is not necessarily subject to an individual design, but rather to the normative offers of given body images and social practices of optimization. With the intention to turn her own repertory of images to a critical and practical reflection, she started a 12-month transformation process of supposed androgynisation through extreme muscle building. On stage the result of her metamorphosis will become visible: the ambiguity of a well-trained body, yet particularly fragile and unknown to her. KONTROL is for all people who are enthusiastic about dance, performance, visual arts and extreme sports and who deal with gender justice and the right to free self-determination.

Hamburg, 2022

KONTROL is an intense experiment on competing with your own body. Former swimmer Mai reminds us how our bodies are shaped with certain preconditions of the ideal physique. Supervised by sports scientist Patrick Rump , she trains her body to achieve its maximum performance through science-based-training that also high level athletes are utilizing. Why: in order for the body to be, or to remain visible it must acquire numerous images. The process is not necessarily subject to an individual design, but rather to the normative offers of given body images and social practices of optimization. With the intention to turn her own repertory of images to a critical and practical reflection, she started a 12-month transformation process of supposed androgynisation through extreme muscle building. On stage the result of her metamorphosis will become visible: the ambiguity of a well-trained body, yet particularly fragile and unknown to her. KONTROL is for all people who are enthusiastic about dance, performance, visual arts and extreme sports and who deal with gender justice and the right to free self-determination.

Hamburg, 2022