IFTF 2021

Womxn Performing Selves

Our festival celebrates its 5th anniversary this year and we will realize another year in a row a self-determined space for women* in the performing arts in Hessen.

The IFTF is part of the Magdalena Project, a dynamic intercultural network that crosses borders and generations. It is an international platform for the stage work of women*, a forum for critical discussions and a source of support, inspiration and collective education in the performing arts.

Based on this year’s motto “Womxn Performing Selves”, we therefore invite artists and groups to meet in presence from 13-19 September. For this purpose, we have curated a program that gives us a space for our voices and our artistic productions in the current situation where women* rights are again threatened worldwide.

IFTF 2021 invites us to discover the buried knowledge from history and the power hidden in our bodies. Bringing them out into the world as ritual is part of this year’s performances, through which witches, magicians, and other repressed predecessors of today’s feminists speak.

As theater makers we are visionary people. With our art we can create new realities and other worlds. Now women* are the protagonists of this revolutionary process, here we are writing a new history – in our lives and in art!