{"id":3041,"date":"2024-02-27T14:23:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T12:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newbalticdance.lt\/?post_type=mec-events&p=3041"},"modified":"2024-05-02T16:55:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T13:55:21","slug":"cherish-menzo-the-netherlands-belgium-darkmatter-3","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/newbalticdance.lt\/en\/renginiai\/cherish-menzo-the-netherlands-belgium-darkmatter-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherish Menzo (The Netherlands, Belgium) \u2013 DARK<\/i><\/del>MATTER<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"Tickets<\/span><\/a><\/span>\n

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ATTENTION. <\/strong>The performance contains: nudity, smoke, strobe light, loud music and blackout.\u00a0Spectators arriving late will not be admitted to the performance.<\/p>\n

Duration:<\/strong> 85 min.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the duet <\/span>DARK<\/span><\/i><\/del>MATTER<\/span><\/i>, with the help of a Distorted Rap Choir, artist Cherish Menzo and her onstage partner Camilo Mej\u00eda Cort\u00e9s, look for ways to detach their bodies, and the daily reality in which they move, from an imposed perception.<\/span><\/p>\n

The title <\/span>DARK<\/span><\/i><\/del>MATTER<\/span><\/i> is derived from dark matter, an astronomical phenomenon, and refers to the skin color of the performers’ bodies. The unfathomable dark matter incites curiosity. It is almost invisible, just as the dark body is in certain parts of society.<\/span><\/p>\n

DARK<\/span><\/i><\/del>MATTER<\/span><\/i> wants to get rid of a biased way of looking at one’s own body and that of the other \u2013 and the stories we attribute to it. Menzo also throws her own body into battle, which results in a complex conversation that she wants to both enter into and transcend \u2013 a duality that feeds <\/span>DARK<\/span><\/i>MATTER<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn this new project, I want to bend further and disconnect my personal view of stories linked to the dark body and blackness. Is there room to dream and to rethink and redraw this body? Can this process be disconnected from historical and existing ways of thinking, or are these fertile seeds that I should take with me in my work process? Finally, how do I open up this research and turn it into a more collective story?\u201d \u2013 Cherish Menzo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cherish Menzo<\/b> (\u00b01988, The Netherlands) is a performing artist and choreographer, based in Amsterdam and Brussels. For her artistic work she is interested in the transformation of the body on stage and in the \u201cembodiment\u201d of different physical images. Images seem recognizable at first glance, but by highlighting their complexity and contradiction, Cherish questions the apparent norm and creates universes in which the black body stands central. She floats between the nostalgia of 90s and 00s hip-hop, industrial hip-hop, rap lyrics, sci-fi, manga and speculative futures. Using these elements as tools to give shape to \u2013 and materialize \u2013 uncanny, enigmatic forms and realities.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Concept and Choreography:<\/b> Cherish Menzo<\/span><\/p>\n

Creation and Performance: <\/b>Camilo Mej\u00eda Cort\u00e9s and Cherish Menzo<\/span><\/p>\n

Lighting Design:<\/b> Niels Runderkamp<\/span><\/p>\n

Music Composition:<\/b> Gagi Petrovic and Michael Nunes<\/span><\/p>\n

Mastering:<\/b> Gagi Petrovic and Michael Nunes<\/span><\/p>\n

Costume Design:<\/b> JustTatty.com<\/span><\/p>\n

Scenography:<\/b> Morgana Machado Marques<\/span><\/p>\n

Dramaturgy:<\/b> Ren\u00e9e Copraij<\/span><\/p>\n

Singing and Vocal Coaches:<\/b> Dani\u00ebl Bonsu and Shari Kok-Sey-Tjong<\/span><\/p>\n

Artistic Advice:<\/b> Benjamin Kahn, Christian Yav and Nicole Geertruida<\/span><\/p>\n

Production Intern:<\/b> Pauline Van Nuffel<\/span><\/p>\n

Production:<\/b> GRIP, Frascati Producties<\/span><\/p>\n

Coproduction:<\/b> Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels, BE), CCN-Ballet national de Marseille dans le cadre de l\u2019accueil studio \/ Minist\u00e8re 7 de la Culture (FR), actoral festival (Marseille, FR), STUK (Leuven, BE), La Villette (Paris, FR), Festival d\u2019Automne \u00e0 Paris (FR), Beursschouwburg (Brussels, BE), Perpodium (BE).<\/span><\/p>\n

Residencies:<\/b> STUK (Leuven, BE), La Villette (Paris, FR), Frascati (Amsterdam, NL), Beursschouwburg (Brussels, BE), CCN-Ballet national de Marseille dans le cadre de l\u2019accueil studio \/ Minist\u00e8re de la Culture (FR).<\/span><\/p>\n

In Collaboration With: <\/b>Trill (Leuven, BE), WijzijnDOX (Utrecht, NL), De Coproducers (NL).<\/span><\/p>\n

With the Financial Support of:<\/b> the Flemish Government, The Performing Arts Fund NL, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government and Cronos Invest.<\/span><\/p>\n

Premiere: <\/b>12-15 May 2022, Beursschouwburg\/Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels.<\/span><\/p>\n

Photos: <\/b>Yema Gieskes, M\u00e9lanie Musisi.<\/span><\/p>\n