Collaboration with Aga Pędziwiatr and Rafał Pierzyński

DIVAS is a performance and dance collective based on a mutual interest in practice and knowledge connected to queer life, magic, healing, love, witchcraft, feminism, gay culture, pop music and more. They create events/performances based on finding forms of dialogue with an audience and multimedia material including movement, sound, video, objects. A diva became for us a synonym of ‘your best self’ full of light and beauty beyond the ideas and the pressure imposed by the mass media. A diva is above it. A diva takes care of herself and the others, she shares. No shades, just light. Life is not a performance or a catwalk but it doesn’t mean we are not DIVAS. It’s inclusive. The word diva is open again. What you feel and who you are is important.

Magda Drozd joined the group in 2017 to create music and sound for their performances. In this constellation they were performing together at Tanzhaus Zürich (November 2017), Stereoskop Performance Festival Zürich (December 2017) and at message salon embassy Zürich Nord (January 2017). ​


Forget it before you wake up, remember to call me later, 2017
Performance by DIVAS

Aga Pędziwiatr and Rafał Pierzyński (DIVAS) continue their exploration of queer spaces and in-between zones of consciousness. For their setting of „Forget it before you wake up, remember to call me later“ they invited Magda Drozd to join them for the sound performance. These three creatures inhabit the space of come-down. It might seem exotic but they are simply exhausted: this saturation comes with the reappearance of hallucinatory figures. The work started long ago and will continue to evolve in a future that perpetually escapes the known. We can never hold it in place. Choreography and

performance: Aga Pedziwiatr, Rafal Pierzynski as DIVAS Sound performance: Magda Drozd with voices of DIVAS and a fragment of a lecture by Hortense Spillers The Idea of Black Culture Light Design: Anutoshen M. Hüer  


Different kind of danger, 2017
Performance by DIVAS

”different kind of danger“ is a fresh improvisation score including DIVAS recent trips and fabulous journeys. Magda Drozd, Aga Pędziwiatr, Rafał Pierzyński draw from their practices, dreams, songs and different performance formats to bring you this post catastrophic simulation of a possible past present and future. Failing, faking and gently dancing can make us all crazy, hopefully. So let‘s skip the main course and stay with les entremets. performance: Magda Drozd, Aga Pędziwiatr, Rafał Pierzyński in colaboration with Mesage Salon, Zurich Nord with inspirations from: Danna Haraway, Hortense Spillers, AA Bronson, Maya Deren, Hayao Miyazaki