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Performances

25. – 26.

APR
2025

CHERISH MENZO

FRANK

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© Bas de Brouwer

Cherish Menzo’s works open up speculations and dialogues around the Black body and the multilayered entanglements of the African diaspora. In previous pieces, the choreographer devoted herself to a complex examination of stereotypical female figures in hip-hop videos or the astronomical phenomenon of dark matter via Afrofuturism. In her new piece, she explores embodiments of the monstrous in order to question categories of the strange as well as dominant norms.

The title FRANK refers to honesty and directness. But it’s also short for Frankenstein. As an ‘inhuman’ creature of threatening otherness, this prototype of the monster is the metaphorical incarnation of common beliefs and narratives that terrify humanity. Playing with ambivalent images, distortions and enigmatic glitches, Menzo confronts the horror that underlies the concept of the monster and makes prevailing narratives and the supposedly familiar collapse.

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Time

19:30–21:00

Location

TQW Halle G

Duration

90 Min

Price

€ 25/20/12

Additional Information

Mit Textpassagen in englischer und französischer Sprache Besuchshinweis: Stroboskop, starke Bässe, Bühnennebel Mehr

  • Artist Bio

    Cherish Menzo,

    born in 1988 in the Netherlands, is a choreographer and dancer living in Brussels and Amsterdam. In 2013, she graduated from The Urban Contemporary (JMD) at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Amsterdam. Menzo has appeared in the work of Lisbeth Gruwez, Jan Martens, and Nicole Beutler, as well as collaborations with the likes of Akram Khan, Ula Sickle, Olivier Dubois and Eszter Salamon. Her own works tour internationally: EFES (2016, together with Nicole Geertruida), LIVE (2018, with Müşfik Can Müftüoğlu), JEZEBEL (2019), and DARKMATTER (2022). Menzo is interested in the transformation of the body on stage and in the ‘embodiment’ of different physical images. She attempts to detach bodies from forced perceptions and their daily corporeal realities, underlining the complexity and contradictory nature of images that seem recognisable at first glance. GRIP
  • Credits

    Konzept, Regie
    Cherish Menzo

    Performance von und mit
    Malick Cissé, Cherish Menzo, Mulunesh, Omagbitse Omagbemi

    Sounddesign
    Maria Muehombo a.k.a M I M I

    Videodesign
    Andrea Casetti

    Sound- und Videotechnik
    Arthur De Vuyst

    Bühnenbild
    Morgana Machado Marques

    Lichtdesign
    Ryoya Fudetani

    Dramaturgie
    Johanne Affricot, Renée Copraij

    Kostüme
    Cherish Menzo

    Text
    Khadija El Kharraz Alami, Cherish Menzo

    Künstlerische Beratung
    Khadija El Kharraz Alami, Nicole Geertruida

    Tourtechnik
    Pieter-Jan Buelens, Arthur De Vuyst, Ryoya Fudetani, Hadrien Jeangette

    Grafik
    Nick Mattan

    Dank an
    Mildred Caprino, Anne Goedhart, Rodney Frederik & Winti Formation „Krin Ati“ Daryll Geldrop, Ernie Wolf, Sandra Menzo, Shavelie Menzo, Madeleine Planeix-Crocker, Sarah Garnaud, Alice Bröker, Johanna Cool

    Produktion
    GRIP & Theater Utrecht

    In Zusammenarbeit mit
    Dance On Ensemble

    Internationale Distribution
    A propic – Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent

    Koproduktion
    Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Carreau du Temple – Etablissement culturel et sportif de la Ville de Paris, Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam, Julidans Amsterdam, PACT Zollverein, Festival Montpellier Danse 2025, Theater Utrecht, Le Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans – Direction Maud Le Pladec, Tanzquartier Wien, DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, Festival d’Automne à Paris, One Dance Festival, Perpodium

    Mit Unterstützung von
    CND – Centre national de la danse à Pantin, BRONKS, KWP Kunstenwerkplaats, l’Atelier de Paris – Centre de développement chorégraphique national

    Gefördert von
    der Regierung Flanderns, vom Programm Tax Shelter der belgischen Regierung via Cronos Invest, BNG Bank Theaterprijs, Charlotte Köhler Prijs van het Cultuurfonds,

    Culture Moves Europe, ein Projekt gefördert von der Europäischen Union und vom Goethe-Institut. Dieses Werk wurde mit finanzieller Unterstützung der Europäischen Union realisiert. Die darin geäußerten Ansichten spiegeln in keiner Weise den offiziellen Standpunkt der Europäischen Union wider. Mehr Credits hier.
  • Events

    • APR
      25

      19:30 – 21:00

      Cherish Menzo

      FRANK

      Time

      19:30 – 21:00

      Location

      TQW Halle G

      Duration

      90 Min

      Price

      € 25/20/12

      Additional Information

      Mit Textpassagen in englischer und französischer Sprache Besuchshinweis: Stroboskop, starke Bässe, Bühnennebel Mehr

    • APR
      26

      19:30 – 21:00

      Cherish Menzo

      FRANK

      Time

      19:30 – 21:00

      Location

      TQW Halle G

      Duration

      90 Min

      Price

      € 25/20/12

      Additional Information

      Mit Textpassagen in englischer und französischer Sprache Besuchshinweis: Stroboskop, starke Bässe, Bühnennebel Mehr

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