Nederland
Taka Taka
ESNS:
2025
Researcher / Scholar, Academy of Theater and Dance
Panagiotis Panagiotakopoulos (GR), a.k.a Taka Taka, is the art director of Club ChUrch the godmother of the drag House of Hopelezz, sister for others, mother of the drag king House of Løstbois, proud daughter of Jennifer Hopelezz and co-founder of the non-profit Drag King Academy. They identify as a dragtivist, educator, queer theorist and independent curator who produces performances as art director for the Amsterdam‘s sex positive underground night club, Church since 2013. They were trained as a professional make-up artist, studied Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie followed by Master in Arts at the Dutch Art Institute. Currently researching drag mothering as an artistic educational model together with Professional Doctorate for Arts and Creative, Academy of Theater and Dance. Taka Taka sees drag as an amplified voice, whose purpose is to communicate, problematize and propose methods according to local conditions. They have s hared their knowledge and methodologies for drag mothering, gendered character based practices and its intersections with HIV through interviews, lectures, essays and workshops with various Dutch and International art institutions and a rt academies. They collaborated annually with SOA/AIDS Nederland, Global Aids Village.
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