About
Maxime Dreesen (b. 1996) graduated as a director from the Toneelacademie Maastricht in 2019. In their work, they aim for honesty and authenticity, which can lead to realism and concreteness but also to absurdism and the grotesque. With Hartstuk in 2018, they created the first part of a queer-coming-of-age trilogy that seeks the essence of the theatrical medium: creating magic only with words, voices and bodies in a bare space. The Failure of Sex and Break Free followed in 2019.
Their work deals with themes such as sex-positivity, unlearning, gender spectrum and shame. With blushing cheeks, they do a proposal for liberation from individual shame and searches for a queer future: collective, liberating and based on mutual respect.
After graduating, Maxime became artist-in-residence at Monty Kultuurfaktorij. During their research in gender and queer studies, the theatrical identity Tabooboo was born.
Tabooboo is their alter ego, a cyborg, an assemblage that turns the body into a sex machine. The shoulders are eyes, to see everything that happens. Tongues come out of the head to kiss and lick different people, things, places at the same time. The hands are like the gripping machines of an amusement park. The butt is a sun - the 'solar anus', the anus as a seat of light, heat and energy.
Maxime believes there is a language in the sexual. Like languages, sexualities can be learned, they are historically constructed, complex systems of communication and reproduction. We can learn new ways of living by learning new sexualities. We are trained in sexual monolingualism, but can become multilingual.
Since 2020 Maxime is artist-in-residence at De Studio in Antwerp. They made the protest performance Youth For Sex (2021), a research project with young people from diverse backgrounds that resulted in a protest performance. For three months, they debated with each other about sexual emancipation, created performances, protest songs, manifestos and alter-egos. They united to fight for freedom and equivalency within sexuality.
In the fall of 2021, they organized Salon Sex Sessions. During these sessions the audience was taken on an exploration of alternative paths of what sexuality and sex education can be.
In 2022, Tabooboo made Countersex Education, a solo performance that explores the boundaries of musical and alternative sex education in order to reach an orgasmic climax together with the audience.
On request they also teach sex education in schools and hosts parties like BLUSH BLUSH.
In 2023 they started new research and organized Collective Ateliers (2023) on queer-future-thinking.
Contact
info@maximedreesen.com
instagram
Features:
De Standaard
‘Ik zou dolgraag schaamteloos willen zijn’
Subbacultcha
‘Sexuality is like a language and I really wish for people to become multilingual’
HLN
‘Seksleven verrijken met speelse fantasieën en onbekende verlangens’
De Standaard
‘Meerseksig’
Theaterkrant
‘Queer voorlichting zonder belering’
Knack
'De sector leert je dat je niet bestaat'
Theaterkrant
'Vurige protest performance tegen dominante structuren'
Contact
info@maximedreesen.com
instagram
Features:
De Standaard
‘Ik zou dolgraag schaamteloos willen zijn’
Subbacultcha
‘Sexuality is like a language and I really wish for people to become multilingual’
HLN
‘Seksleven verrijken met speelse fantasieën en onbekende verlangens’
De Standaard
‘Meerseksig’
Theaterkrant
‘Queer voorlichting zonder belering’
Knack
'De sector leert je dat je niet bestaat'
Theaterkrant
'Recensie YFS'
About
Maxime Dreesen (b. 1996) graduated as a director from the Toneelacademie Maastricht in 2019. In their work, they aim for honesty and authenticity, which can lead to realism and concreteness but also to absurdism and the grotesque. With Hartstuk in 2018, they created the first part of a queer-coming-of-age trilogy that seeks the essence of the theatrical medium: creating magic only with words, voices and bodies in a bare space. Failure of Sex and Break Free followed in 2019.
Their work deals with themes such as sex-positivity, unlearning, gender spectrum and shame. With blushing cheeks, they do a proposal for liberation from individual shame and searches for a queer future: collective, liberating and based on mutual respect.
After graduating, Maxime became artist-in-residence at Monty Kultuurfaktorij. During their research in gender and queer studies, the theatrical identity Tabooboo was born. Tabooboo is their alter ego, a cyborg, an assemblage that turns the body into a sex machine. The shoulders are eyes, to see everything that happens. Tongues come out of the head to kiss and lick different people, things, places at the same time. The hands are like the gripping machines of an amusement park. The butt is a sun - the 'solar anus', the anus as a seat of light, heat and energy.
Maxime believes there is a language in the sexual. Like languages, sexualities can be learned, they are historically constructed, complex systems of communication and reproduction. We can learn new ways of living by learning new sexualities. We are trained in sexual monolingualism, but can become multilingual.
Since 2020 Maxime is artist-in-residence at De Studio in Antwerp. They made the protest performance Youth For Sex (2021), a research project with young people from diverse backgrounds that resulted in a protest performance. For three months, they debated with each other about sexual emancipation, created performances, protest songs, manifestos and alter-egos. They united to fight for freedom and equivalency within sexuality.
In the fall of 2021, they organized Salon Sex Sessions. During these sessions the audience was taken on an exploration of alternative paths of what sexuality and sex education can be.
In 2022, Tabooboo made Countersex Education, a solo performance that explores the boundaries of musical and alternative sex education in order to reach an orgasmic climax together with the audience.
On request, they teach sex education at schools and hosts parties like BLUSH BLUSH.
In 2023 they started new research and organized Collective Ateliers (2023) on queer-future-thinking.