A sex-positive, feminist and vegan drag creature, breaking the binaries of gender and species. Soya the cow dances, sings and speaks for the liberation of everybody. She breaks the boundaries of gender and species and stands up for a world full of joy and compassion. Since her first appearance at the Animal Rights March on the steps of the legendary Volksbühne Berlin, she has taken part in discussion panels and demonstrations. She performs in various artistic contexts and forms, from her theater show Dear Human Animals (2020) to her electro-pop album Purple Grass (2021), in TV shows such as The Voice of Germany (2021), in the exhibition format Planet Moo (2022) or online in social networks. And at Tanzhaus Zürich, for example with performative walks centered around the topics of the dance pieces created there as well as other, independent specials.
MovingTowardsZero
Soya the Cow, Uhura Bqueer
Dedomestication
To mark its 30th anniversary, Tanzhaus Zürich is hosting the MovingTowardsZero festival (June 26–28, 2026): a utopian space where art, activism and community come together. Dedomestication is part of MovingTowardsZero.
Uniting drag, queer cosmologies, and decolonial thought, the artists propose “dedomestication” as a gesture of poetic and political liberation. Through performance and installation, they dismantle boundaries between species and explore the body as a territory of resistance, desire, and reinvention – between the pop cow and the sacred jaguar, between ritual and protest. These photographs were taken in the Brazilian Amazon, a region marked by colonial violence, ecocide and monocultures.
Kostüme Andy Lopes
Fotografien Tarcisio Gabriel
Eine Produktion von 3art3 in Koproduktion mit Tanzhaus Zürich
Unterstützung Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich, Schweizer Kulturstiftung Pro Helvetia, Migros Kulturprozent, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler, Anda & Fala Cultural Association
Rafa Bqueer aka Uhura Bqueer is a multi-artist. She is one of the pioneers of the Drag Themônia scene in Belém do Pará. Through performance, photography, film and textile art, she produces images, individual and collective actions that deal with concepts of gender, race, LGBTQIA+ activism and a reinterpretation of art history in the Amazon region.
Dates / Booking
14:00 — 19:00
- Pay as much as you want
Studio 2
Tanzhaus Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 127a
8037 Zürich
- Duration: 5h
- Nonverbal, without spoken text
- Wheelchair accessible
14:00 — 19:00
- Pay as much as you want
Studio 2
Tanzhaus Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 127a
8037 Zürich
- Duration: 5h
- Nonverbal, without spoken text
- Wheelchair accessible
