Project Description
This work is a personal and feminist exploration of female-socialized anger. Growing up as a girl, I learned to be “nice,” “beautiful,” and “harmonious.” This conditioning has shaped not only my identity but also how I move and create in dance. Beneath the smile, however, there is a lingering sense that something is missing—an unease, a silenced energy.
In WUTBRUST, I investigate repressed, tamed, and internalized anger—the one hidden behind politeness, the one that turns inward and makes us sick—and that, in its self-abusive form, ultimately perpetuates victimhood and sustains patriarchal structures of power and dependency. I want to give space to the grotesque, raw, and “unfeminine” emotions that have long been stigmatized. Through the raw physicality of dance forms like Krump and Butoh—both emphasizing authentic, vulnerable expression that challenges mainstream aesthetics of “beauty”—I search for a movement vocabulary to embody these emotions.
WUTBRUST combines contemporary dance, performance, and theatrical imagery in a deliberately raw, colorful, and contradictory aesthetic. The project seeks empowerment through embracing anger in its productive power as a transformative force—toward liberation from internalized norms and genuine equality.
Open presentation: Saturday March 7th 2026
20:00, Free Entrance
Masterclass:
shake the nice girl out! – dance & improvisation workshop around female socialized anger
Sunday March 8th 2026, 11:00 – 13:00
Free submission
Mara Natterer
Mara is a dancer and craniosacral therapist. She teaches contemporary dance, movement, and contact improvisation in Switzerland and internationally. She studied International Relations in Geneva and later worked in the field of human rights for the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Brazil. Mara holds a Master’s degree in Community Dance from the Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London and has led community dance projects in England, Brazil, Spain, and Switzerland, as well as with students from various universities in Germany and Switzerland. As a freelance dancer and co-choreographer, she has collaborated with numerous choreographers in Switzerland and abroad (e.g., Rahel Lopez de la Nieta, Heidi Rustgaard, Alexandra Prici, Elenita Queiroz). She also choreographs for large-scale theatre productions. In 2022, Mara received a Dance Grant from the Appenzell Ausserrhoden Cultural Foundation for her project BERÜHRBAR. Since 2023, she has been the director of Laboratoire Paul, a format for interdisciplinary collaboration as part of the Paula Interfestival (www.paula-interfestival.ch). In 2024, she received the Canton of St. Gallen’s Work Grant for her project Hauten Baby!, which explores trauma-sensitive practices in the performing arts.
