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Queen of the Heavens and of the Earth, Empress of Despair, and Architect of Your Eternal Suffering, Olympia Bukkakis is a drag queen, choreographer, moderator, and writer living and working in Berlin. She began performing while completing a BA in Social Theory at Melbourne University in Australia and kick-started the local alternative drag scene with her party Pandora’s Box.
Since moving to Berlin in 2012, she has organised, curated, and moderated various queer performance nights, including Get Fucked, Apocalypse Tonight, and Queens Against Borders. In 2017, she began performing in contemporary dance and performance contexts, collaborating with Jeremy Wade. In 2019, she completed a Master's in Solo Dance Authorship at the Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT) in Berlin, with her graduation piece Tales From a State of Shemergency. Since then, she has premiered a number of new works, including Gender Euphoria (2019), Work in Progress (2019), Under Pressures (2019), A Touch of the Other (2020), Too Much (2021), Boys Night Out (2023), Replay (2023), Material Performance (2023), and Heavy Duty Beauty (2024).
Olympia has published several written pieces. Gender Euphoria: Trans and Nonbinary Identities in Drag was published by Bloomsbury as part of Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene, and a polemic titled A Case for the Abolition of Men is available through HKW as part of Counter Readings of the Body via Spektor Books.
She is inspired by the tensions and intersections between queer nightlife and contemporary dance and performance.
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