BIMBO MANIFESTO
Club BIMBO Manifesto (Robin Nimanong) celebrates the Bimbo as a living manifesto of freedom, joy, and resistance. Queer thinkers and performers break down stereotypes with playfulness, irony, and strength—an ode to self-determination and collective imagination.
In this performance, Bimbo is celebrated and critiqued as the capitalistic dream: the “Manifesto” is because BIMBOs are aware of their own positions and the power relations which come in play within this western, capitalistic, patriarchal, hegemonic culture.
In BIMBO Manifesto, the central question isn't who the Bimbo is, but what their presence triggers in our society. The Bimbo is no longer just a stereotype, but a moving awareness: sharp, playful, disruptive, and liberating. Where the Bimbo was once seen as a projection of someone else's desires, it now actively reclaims space with joy, irony, and self-determination as forms of resistance.
The performance unfolds as a living protest sign, created by queer thinkers and performers who break open existing power structures. BIMBO Manifesto is an ode to freedom that questions the system, and simultaneously an invitation to see differently: beyond the binary, beyond hierarchy, towards the collective imagination. It is both playful and sharp, vulnerable and powerful, a manifesto in motion.
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
CREDITS:
Bimbo Manifesto is created within DOX Club 2025 as education (research) trajectory
Artistic concept and choreography by: Robin Nimanong
Music and visuals: Guenter Råler
Supported by: Shiva Mugler (contemporary, ballroom, warm ups and coaching trajectory), Deion Simon (Vogue-Femme), Fleur van de Schaaf (coaching and teaching material from Children of Zeus)
Dramaturgy: Sophie Cohlen
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