{"id":1075,"date":"2025-01-29T17:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T16:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:20:17","slug":"frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/productions\/frank\/","title":{"rendered":"FRANK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cherish Menzo<\/a> \/ Dance On Ensemble \/ GRIP & Theater Utrecht<\/strong><\/p>\n

Concept and Direction:<\/strong> Cherish Menzo
\nCreation and Performance:<\/strong> Omagbitse Omagbemi (Dance On Ensemble), Malick Ciss\u00e9, Mulunesh
\nPerformance by four of the following artists<\/strong>: Mulunesh, Malick Ciss\u00e9, Omagbitse Omagbemi, Naomi Katthagen, Tim Persent, Camilo Mej\u00eda Cort\u00e9s, Cherish Menzo
\nSound Design:<\/strong> Maria Muehombo a.k.a. M I M I
\nVideo Design:<\/strong> Andrea Casetti
\nSound and Video Engineering:<\/strong> Arthur De Vuyst
\nSet Design:<\/strong> Morgana Machado Marques
\nLighting Design:<\/strong> Ryoya Fudetani
\nDramaturgy:<\/strong> Johanne Affricot, Ren\u00e9e Copraij
\nCostumes:<\/strong> Cherish Menzo
\nText:<\/strong> Khadija El Kharraz Alami, Cherish Menzo
\nArtistic Advice:<\/strong> Khadija El Kharraz Alami, Nicole Geertruida
\nInternship:<\/strong> Sarah Garnaud, Alice Br\u00f6ker
\nSurtitles:<\/strong> Jennifer Piasecki
\nTechnician on Tour:<\/strong> Pieter-Jan Buelens, Arthur De Vuyst, Ryoya Fudetani, Hadrien Jeangette
\nGraphic Design:<\/strong> Nick Mattan<\/p>\n

Thanks to:<\/strong> Mildred Caprino, Anne Goedhart, Rodney Frederik & Winti Formation \u201cKrin Ati,\u201d Daryll Geldrop, Ernie Wolf, Sandra Menzo, Shavelie Menzo, Madeleine Planeix-Crocker, Johanna Cool, Anne de Andrade, Victor Dumont,\u00a0Keiko Yamaguchi,\u00a0Haruna Tanaka,\u00a0Sensei Taneda,\u00a0Ima Tenko, Indr\u0117 Jurgelevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 (kankl\u0117s), Blair Taylor (violin),\u00a0Paul Thurlby<\/p>\n

Text Credits, Inspiration, References, Bibliography:<\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/www.grip.house\/en\/projects\/frank<\/a><\/p>\n

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Choreographer Cherish Menzo examines the figure of the monster in\u00a0FRANK\u00a0<\/em>\u2014short for Frankenstein. More than (re)producing a physical or visual portrayal of the monster, she is researching the monstrous as an embodiment of beliefs and narratives that terrify and horrify, and yet also attract us. Distortion is a choreographic leitmotif used to generate movement material and as a tool to devour the dance and loosen its structure. Cherish Menzo investigates the action of decay and how something gradually breaking down and becoming less or worse can affect one\u2019s gestures.<\/p>\n

The performance space fabulates on the\u00a0Baka Gorong<\/em>, a place located at the back of the former plantations and in front of the wetlands, where enslaved people in Suriname secretly went to carry out Winti rituals \u2013 demonized under Dutch colonial rule \u2013 and to consider fleeing.<\/p>\n

She is joined by Omagbitse Omagbemi (Dance On Ensemble), Mulunesh, and Malick Ciss\u00e9 \u00a0\u2013 performing artists from different generations \u2013 to construct a performance between the ritual, the apocalypse, and the carnival, where narrated identities are challenged, where flesh can deviate and be corrupted until it bursts and becomes unbearable. The dancers express their standing in the world with incoherent, broken-down movement in a scenery that collapses around them. In an increasingly unstable world of hiccups and unlikely events, often gruesome and violent, we are reminded of early horror movies and this eerie feeling, the flicker in the dark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Premiere:<\/strong> 22 May 2025, Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels<\/p>\n

Production:<\/strong> GRIP & Theater Utrecht (Dagmar Bokma, Anne Breure, Maartje de Groot, Kelly de Haan, Teun de Loos, Philip den Uyl, Hanne Doms, Seline Gosling, Anneleen Hermans, Tom Hemmer, Leonie Jekel, Aline Jobse, Naomi Lantveld, Myrthe Ligtenberg, Thomas Lloyd, Rudi Meulemans, Lize Meynaerts, Klaartje Oerlemans, Jennifer Piasecki, Florien Smits, Sylvie Svanberg, Bregt van Deursen, Ad van Mierlo, Yoni Vermeire , Nele Verreyken Vincent Wijlhuizen, Kato Wilms)<\/p>\n

In collaboration with:<\/strong> Dance On Ensemble \/ Bureau Ritter<\/p>\n

International Distribution:<\/strong> A propic – Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent<\/p>\n

Co-Production:<\/strong> Kunstenfestivaldesarts,\u00a0Carreau du Temple – Etablissement culturel et sportif de la Ville de Paris, Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam, Julidans Amsterdam, PACT Zollverein funded by the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Festival Montpellier Danse 2025,\u00a0le Centre Chor\u00e9graphique National d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans \u2013 Direction Maud Le Pladec, Tanzquartier Wien, DDD \u2013 Festival Dias da Dan\u00e7a, festival d\u2019Automne \u00e0 Paris, One Dance Festival,\u00a0Perpodium<\/p>\n

With the support of:<\/strong> Centre nationale de la danse \u00e0 Pantin,\u00a0BRONKS, KWP\u00a0Kunstenwerkplaats,\u00a0l\u2019Atelier de Paris – Centre de d\u00e9veloppement chor\u00e9graphique national
\nWith the financial support of:<\/strong> the Flemish Government, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government via Cronos Invest, BNG Bank Theaterprijs, Charlotte K\u00f6hler Prijs van het Cultuurfonds,\u00a0Culture Moves Europe, a project funded by the European Union and the Goethe-Institut<\/p>\n

This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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