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BECOMING Body Politics

Black Silk | Hasan Gök
Sat 28 Feb 20:00 - 23:59
Sat 28 Feb 2026
20:00 - 23:59
  • Sat 28 Feb 2026
    20:00 - 23:59
    Zaal 3, Den Haag
    De Constant Rebecqueplein 20-A
    Past event

BECOMING is a fluid bubble full of depth. Each edition is unique and offers a new queer perspective on identity and sexuality. Spectators and artists immerse themselves together in intimacy, party, sensuality, dialogue, art and glitter! At BECOMING, more is better, vulnerability is strength, party is depth and everyone is queer!

Welcome to BECOMING Body Politics, the third edition of the series in The Hague. In this edition, curated by Loulou Sjerps and poet and host Hasan Gök, we explore how - within a world full of unrealistic beauty standards, where fat bodies, disabled bodies, hairy bodies, sick bodies, old bodies, queer bodies, and so many others are portrayed negatively - we can create space to radically love ourselves.

Line-up

  • Joana Cavaco will lead us in a moment of reflection about shame and radical self affection.
  • Yadhira De León Matos showcases a ritualistic choreography, blending Waacking and Afro-Caribbean spiritual dance, inviting the audience to embrace their fears.
  • The Hague-based artist and community builder Yun Lee performs the boxing performance Proximity Drill I on interpersonal struggles and dynamics within a community.
  • With her act The Seamstress, circus artist Lisa Chudalla critiques the fashion industry and the well-known saying, “beauty is pain.”
  • Agender alien and club kid Angel Spiders exposes sensuality as pleasure activism by serving a gender-transcending pole dance performance.
  • A feminist mini-lecture by Tessel ten Zweege adressing being sexy, the male gaze and slutshaming.
  • The performance-lecture film On Pain Worth Sharing by Mira Mira Thompson and Carly Everaert provides a historical context on pain in relation to disability justice and art, exploring leading artists, each revealing their body as both personal and political.

Language

BECOMING is always a mix of English (80%) and Dutch (20%), and also non-linquistic elements and vibes. The event will be presented in simple English. Some of our performances might be in Dutch.

If you don’t speak Dutch please join anyway, you will be able to follow enough of it!

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Angel Spiders
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Joana Cavaco
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Yadhira De León Matos
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‘On Pain Worth Sharing’ - Mira Thompson & Carly Everaert
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Tessel ten Zweege
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Yun Lee
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Vlinder Verouden
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Lisa Chudalla
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Yadhira De León Matos
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BECOMING more

For an overview of all BECOMING events this year, visit the website:

blacksilk.online/becoming

No Dutch Required

Welcome to all our internationals and Anglophiles! Our No Dutch Required selection lists performances that are either English spoken, have English surtitles or that are without spoken text altogether.

Credits

programmers and hosts Loulou Sjerps, Hasan Gök | producer Black Silk, Loulou Sjerps | creative and executive producer Alejandra Zabala | technician Jorn Kortooms | with great thanks to Jopie Louwe Kooijmans, Ro Rox Roxy Roxanna Verwey, Joana Cavaco, Rikkert van Huisstede

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