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Cherish Menzo (Netherlands) - Frank

As in the first two parts of Menzo’s trilogy, JEZEBEL and D̶A̶R̶K̶MATTER, the third and final part, FRANK, the monstrous and horror, the 3rd part of a speculative fabulated trilogy abounds with distortion and transformation as style elements.

Menzo does not tell chronological stories; she creates spaces and worlds centred around the Black body and exploring stories of the African diaspora. In the solo performance JEZEBEL, she deconstructed the image of women in hip-hop culture. In D̶A̶R̶K̶MATTER, she sought ways to sing the body free from reality as far as possible, drawing inspiration from dark matter and colliding black holes.

In FRANK - which refers both to the English word for 'honest, sincere' and to Frankenstein's monster - Menzo explores and seeks to confront the monster in all possible guises, but mainly as a shared fantasy: the inhuman, a deviation from what is normal, the other. Zombies, demons, ghosts, dangerous animals: they reflect the fear of the unknown. FRANK is a performance bordering on a ritual, the apocalypse and carnival.

The three dancers, performers of different generations, interpret their place in that shaky world with disjointed, broken-down movements as the set collapses around them.

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