About Us

The Dames is a duo created in 2022. It first started as a piano-karaoke evening in bars and private events, then recently it evolved into immersive, almost ritualistic performances in theaters and art galleries. We love to travel between these two extremes and that’s where we draw our inspiration. You come to sing pop classics with two playful and shameless beauties, and leave with your body rinsed by a cathartic experience. Maybe you lightened your heart indulging in the “confessions of a Dame” segment, or maybe you were lulled by the divine sisterhood that runs through evenings with the Dames. A program embellished with an equally refined aesthetic, their costumes always made in harmony with their staple pink furry piano sparkling with gold, built so that it is foldable and transportable, easily transforming the atmosphere of any room in which it is deployed.

The idea is to give birth together to a new collective imagination. It is becoming increasingly obvious that the powers that govern us all do not bring us what we have been promised. Security, comfort, happiness, freedom of movement and body, in exchange for servitude. The songs and films of our childhood have lied to us. It is easy to feel hopeless, yet still, we dream. Finding and asserting ourselves as transgender women while our expression is a matter of public debate, requires persistence and creativity. We warmly invite you to our dreamscape, we seduce you with our oneiric score.

In the context of our queer bodies and voices well known hits are transformed with new meanings. 
Once, with the support of the congregation, a trans member of the audience allowed himself to sing for the first time since his voice changed. Another time a Dolly Parton classic became the story of a jealous girlfriend who eventually fell for Jolene’s sapphic charm.

With songs and spells the Dames enchant their audiences, no bad witches, only bad bitches. We sow the dust of dreams and reap the benefits of manifesting magic.

Archive

2022

Monster Ronson’s, Tipsy Bear

2023

Birgit & Bier, Cabaret Saccage, Soho House, Tipsy Bear, UDK Symposium Weiblichkeit, Zum Starken August

2024

Kink, The Knast, Lunchbox Candy, Monster Ronsons, Soho House, Tipsy Bear, Volksbühne Roter Salon, Whole Festival, Zum Starken August

2025

Chez Olympe, La Bouche, Ballhaus Ost, Red Dawn Festival, Tipsy Bear, Zum Starken August,