Dance (in english language)
Pink people wanna know if other pink people like hip-hop
how can it still be hip-hop?
That’s like asking, if Black people like
Dirty Harry
is he still Clint Eastwood? (Greg Tate)
Gangstas, Pimps and Hoes: The US rap world is imbued with images of exaggerated masculinity. When Black artists such as Cam‘ron and Kanye West launched a fashion trend of pink plush, fur and velour in the early 2000s, they proved that even Barbie’s favorite color could not damage their image of heterosexual hypermasculinity. Joana Tischkau draws on this occasion to reveal the fragility of social constructions such as race and gender: To what extent are bodies of the ›other‹ used to consolidate the structural power of white Cis masculinity?
CHOREOGRAPHY Joana Tischkau
PERFORMANCE Rudi Natterer
SOUND DESIGN Frieder Blume
DRAMATURGY & ARTISTIC COOPERATION Nuray Demir & Elisabeth Hampe
COSTUME DESIGN Nadine Bakota
STAGE DESIGN Inga Danysz
LIGHT DESIGN Juri Rendler
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Lisa Gehring
A production by Joana Tischkau in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE, Münchner Kammerspiele and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm as part of the Tanzplattform Rhein-Main. The Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, a project of Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and Hessian State Ballet, is made possible by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art and the Stiftungsallianz [Aventis Foundation, BHF BANK Foundation, Crespo Foundation, Dr. Marschner Foundation, Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main].
Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt.
With kind support by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK Co-Production Support Dance, sponsored by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
In the frame of the thematic focus TO DIE LIKE A MAN Sep/Oct 2020