Performance & Parties

Confidence Behind the Costume. Power Through Performance:

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 TOTKATZ was created from a simple but powerful idea: women should not become less visible as they get older. They should have opportunities to move, create, perform, connect and feel extraordinary.

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TOTKATZ is RollnBoogie’s inclusive female roller-skating performance group, bringing women together through movement, music, creativity, friendship and performance.

 

The inspiration behind TOTKATZ came from lived experience. During perimenopause, roller skating became far more than physical activity for RollnBoogie’s founder. It provided an escape, a new sense of freedom and an opportunity to reconnect with herself at a stage of life when confidence, identity and wellbeing were changing.

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That experience raised an important question: What if other women could experience that same feeling of rediscovery?

 

TOTKATZ was born.

More Than a Roller Skating Group, Women come together regularly to learn and rehearse choreographed roller skating routines, develop new skills, support one another and work towards live performances.​ But the performance is only part of the story.

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For women experiencing perimenopause or menopause, changes can extend far beyond physical symptoms. Menopause can affect sleep, mood, concentration and emotional and social wellbeing. TOTKATZ therefore creates something particularly valuable: a reason to get moving, a reason to connect and something exciting to work towards.

Through regular skating and rehearsals, participants engage in enjoyable physical activity while developing balance, coordination, stamina and movement confidence.

 

Just as importantly, they belong to a team. They laugh together, They learn together. They rehearse together. They encourage one another and eventually perform together.

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Confidence Behind the Costume

One of the distinctive features of TOTKATZ is performance through costume. For a woman who may never imagine herself performing in front of an audience, stepping onto a performance floor can feel intimidating. TOTKATZ turns that vulnerability into something empowering. Full performance costumes can give members a degree of anonymity, allowing a woman to temporarily step away from the everyday labels attached to her; her age, responsibilities, insecurities or expectations and simply become a performer.

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The costume is not intended to hide the person. It gives them permission to reveal another side of themselves.

Behind the costume they can experiment, be theatrical, take creative risks and experience the exhilaration of performing as part of something bigger than herself. Over time, the ambition is that the confidence developed behind the costume travels home with the woman wearing it.

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Why This Matters During Menopause

TOTKATZ is not a medical treatment for menopause. It is a community-based wellbeing and creative physical-activity intervention that can complement the wider support women may receive during this stage of life.

Regular physical activity is associated with improved physical and mental wellbeing, while weight-bearing activities are particularly relevant to maintaining bone health as women age. Movement can also support mood, sleep and general wellbeing.

 

The Social Element: TOTKATZ provides regular contact, shared goals, peer encouragement and a sense of belonging. Obtaining protective social experiences at a time when some women may be navigating major changes in their health, families, relationships, employment or sense of identity.

Changing The Narrative Around Ageing: TOTKATZ challenges the idea that confidence, creativity, adventure and performance belong primarily to younger women. There is no requirement to have a dancer’s body, to look a particular way or to arrive already confident.

You Belong Because You Came: TOTKATZ is open and inclusive, creating opportunities for women of different backgrounds and abilities to participate, progress at their own pace and discover what they are capable of.

For some, success might mean learning a routine.

For another, it might mean putting on a costume.

For someone else, it might be performing publicly for the first time in her life.

And for another woman, the greatest achievement may simply be walking through the door, meeting new people and finding somewhere they feel they belong.

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