composer, performer, producer and teacher of music
𝐃̶𝐀̶𝐑̶𝐊̶𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 is genomineerd voor de VSCD Zwaan Meest Indrukwekkende Dansproductie 2023🍾🎈
De VSCD Dansprijzen worden jaarlijks uitgereikt aan de beste dansproductie van Nederland tijdens de Nederlandse Dansdagen. De prijs wordt uitgereikt tijdens het op vrijdag 29 september.
Uit het juryrapport: ”De jury is omvergeblazen door de rauwe, onontkoombare oerknal die DARKMATTER is. Cherish Menzo bouwt met dit werk voort aan een bijzondere signatuur, die dieper gaat dan dans alleen. Met haar onbarmhartige esthetiek laat deze voorstelling de kijker in elke vezel voelen dat het afwerpen van de koloniale blik geen uitstel meer verdraagt. De lichamen van Menzo en Camilo Mejía Cortés nemen hier en nu de ruimte in en vullen die met hun stemmen en woorden, hun lichamen en hun zeer effectieve vervreemdende fysieke taal. Met haar gestaag uitdijende, trage choreografie schept DARKMATTER een nieuw universum waar nieuwe kosmische wetten gelden.”
Made possible with financial support by FPK.
Today I will join the protest @kapsalontheater , where over 50 Theaters in the Netherlands will open their doors for one day.
It’s ridiculous that in the pandemic our government keeps prioritizing ‘essential jobs’ that require full contact over cultural jobs that can be done safely with distance and less traffic off people than the average shop… At the same time artists are not receiving any compensation or support.
Today we protest against this double standard, while presenting art in a responsible way during another activity that _is_ allowed: a yoga class. There will not be more people than the class would’ve had under normal circumstances, demonstrating the flawed reasoning of these measurements.
I will perform pieces from my latest album ‘Choosing Freedom’ while accompanying @lisachudalla with her Cyr Wheel and eating swords act.
Here is the full statement from the organizer:
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“Kapsalon Theater is an initiative of Sanne Wallis de Vries and Diederik Ebbinge. After two years of corona policy, we unfortunately have to draw the conclusion that the cultural sector, together with the catering industry and nightlife, is always the child of the bill.
The cultural sector has always been flexible, careful and with empathy towards the Corona policy. Research has shown that hardly any infections were observed in the theaters during the opening. The lack of perspective and short-term communication is unworkable for the cultural sector. For the opening of theaters preparation is necessary and cannot be done immediately after a ‘weighing moment’.
We place our hopes on our new minister Robbert Dijkgraaf and Gunay Uslu, State Secretary for Culture, to act energetically and to represent the interests of our sector in the right way. Give us a roadmap, in which the next step can be taken at verifiable moments, and offer us perspective.
We are pleased with this one-off action to have found a way to draw attention to the situation in the cultural sector in a playful way and according to the applicable rules.”
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