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25. – 26.
APR
2025
CHERISH MENZO
FRANK
© 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
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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 MenzoPerformance von und mit
Malick Cissé, Cherish Menzo, Mulunesh, Omagbitse OmagbemiSounddesign
Maria Muehombo a.k.a M I M IVideodesign
Andrea CasettiSound- und Videotechnik
Arthur De VuystBühnenbild
Morgana Machado MarquesLichtdesign
Ryoya FudetaniDramaturgie
Johanne Affricot, Renée CopraijKostüme
Cherish MenzoText
Khadija El Kharraz Alami, Cherish MenzoKünstlerische Beratung
Khadija El Kharraz Alami, Nicole GeertruidaTourtechnik
Pieter-Jan Buelens, Arthur De Vuyst, Ryoya Fudetani, Hadrien JeangetteGrafik
Nick MattanDank 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 CoolProduktion
GRIP & Theater UtrechtIn Zusammenarbeit mit
Dance On EnsembleInternationale Distribution
A propic – Line Rousseau, Marion GauventKoproduktion
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, PerpodiumMit Unterstützung von
CND – Centre national de la danse à Pantin, BRONKS, KWP Kunstenwerkplaats, l’Atelier de Paris – Centre de développement chorégraphique nationalGefördert von
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.
der Regierung Flanderns, vom Programm Tax Shelter der belgischen Regierung via Cronos Invest, BNG Bank Theaterprijs, Charlotte Köhler Prijs van het Cultuurfonds, -
Events
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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
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APR
26
19:30 – 21:00
Cherish Menzo
FRANK
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