Baby’s Breath

Presented at Het Salon, Amsterdam, 2025

AnnaMaria Pinaka created her fictional band Baby’s Breath, with queer musicians from Thessaloniki, in the context of her solo show She Keeps Them Warm With Her Skirt. 

Four princesses literally take the stage, playing as a punk band. The performing bodies become vessels through which layers of femininity are explored and reshuffled, holding space for girliness and queer femmness to take the front and to share their agonies and joys. 

The four princesses carry potency in their imaginative potential, a way of being a princess that isn’t based on class injustice but in a capacity to claim one-ness, conquering the cosmos without suppressing the contradictions, tensions, and lacks that underlie our identities

The performance takes the shape of a gig, that brings together the holy, the untouched, and the wild into an anthem of rebellion.

Band members:
Princess of Spring: Lia Amprikidou
Princess of the Ocean: Areti Chatzaki
Princess of the Night: Kiki Ikik
Princess of the Rainbow: AnnaMaria Pinaka