Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam

Stubborn

Since 2022, Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam has offered a stage to queer perspectives through groundbreaking forms of visual theatre, object theatre and puppetry. This idiosyncratic festival defies the norm with a colourful and bold programme full of exuberant, visual excesses from home and abroad.

CREATING BODIES

The theme of QPFA 2025, CREATING BODIES, challenges you to see bodies not as a given, but as something that is constantly being created, shaped and defined — by ourselves, by others, by systems and structures. How do we experience our bodies? How do they move between boundaries of gender, identity and perception? When does a body become an object, and when does it gain agency? And to what extent do we shape our bodies as we choose?

In the program of CREATING BODIES the body is played with, manipulated, dismantled and re-constructed. The body moves objects, becomes an object and escapes objectification. Welcome!