A GENDERFUCKING RAVE RITUAL

A five-hour happening where bodies lose shape. You wander, dissolve into the crowd and re-emerge somewhere unfamiliar. There are no fixed seats. Follow the heat or sink into a corner and watch everything unfold.

HOLOBIONT is a subversive playground: part collective ritual, part anarchic dance floor. A gathering of performers, clitty wigs, smeared makeup and glitter that will mysteriously reappear in unexpected places. Here, bodies, labels and expectations collapse. In the chaos, something new emerges: a temporary community where bodies, genders and identities are free.

An immersive landscape of queer performers claiming fluidity. Bodies transform in real time: tucked live in the open, breasts bound and reshaped, waists cinched tight, faces wiped off and rebuilt again. Performance, video, text, music, dance and drag melt into one continuous field of transformation. An invitation to meet the unknown in yourself and others. And dance together.

TRIGGER WARNING: may contain loud music, nudity, explicit language and spontaneous gender euphoria.In each city,

HOLOBIONT connects with local queer and trans communities through collaboration with the hosting theater. Workshops open space for meeting, knowledge sharing, and artistic exchange. Local performers also step onto the HOLOBIONT stage, making every performance a living, breathing remix shaped by the voices and bodies of the city.

Concept / Artistic Direction: Jef Van Gestel, Suzan Boogaerdt, Bianca van der Schoot. Creators / Performers: Rita Bifulco, Suzan Boogaerdt, Sjaid Foncé, Jef Van gestel, Barnaby Savage, Mara Snip, Isadora Tomasi. Scenography Advice: Marloes & Wikke. Technical production: Jurr van Diggele. Video design: Daan Hazendonk. Light design: Julian Maiwald. Campaign Image: Lisa Schamlé. Stage Photography: Casper Koster. Production: Yola Parie. Technical production: Bart Coenen. Co-production: Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot, Stichting Jef Van Gestel, Holland Festival. With thanks to: Dioraphte