In violet glace the ace stands for asexual. Flóra Boros choreographs a space that is intentionally ambiguous — a room where sensuality does not demand explanation or erotic readability. This solo unfolds like a slow-burn romance and invites the audience to experience a gaze that lingers without devouring.

Drawing inspiration from flashy 90’s and 00’s pop music videos, sultry dance routines emerge, only to be stripped down and recontextualized, allowing the body to move, sweat, and exist without being an object of desire. Flóra desexualizes choreographies one hair flip at a time, eroding lustful gestures through repetition. Gently teasing, she perpetually challenges the viewers’ perspective: the ace gaze becomes a filter, a mirror, and a queer mode of looking back.

Musician Rozi Mákó whispers electronic soundscapes into being: she sighs glossy synths and breathes dancey beats, from still gasps to liberated outbursts. Meanwhile, the body shimmers, edges blur and hierarchies of sight dissolve under Yasemin Duru’s spotlights. Bathed in fifty shades of purple-grey and dripping with iridescent textures, the stage, glittered by Sara Sternat, starts scintillating. Body parts, revealed and concealed by translucent fabrics, oscillate between intimacy and alienation.

Questioning how we stare, sexualize and objectify, violet glace brings asexual representation to the forefront. And the background. And all the subtly sensuous spaces in between.

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Co-produced by WUK performing arts.
Funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (MA 7), Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport (BMWKMS). 
Supported by Im_flieger, Bears in the Park, Workshop Foundation, Seestadt Studios.

WUK Projektraum

Schedule in January