Subtle Whine is an audiovisual and performative landscape that explores the subtle nuances and mechanics of whining - not the English cry, but the the gyration of the hips to the rhythms of Caribbean calypso, soca or (in Suriname) Kawina music. Using video and textiles, Cherish Menzo's choreography takes you on a voyage in time past stretching tissues, metal crunching mouths, blue caresses and tears, water, crackling latex, tender lullabies and deep bass frequencies. In the process, the twists, turns, gyrations and revolutions follow one another again and again, until the inherited tradition transforms and the codes of the blackbox stage disintegrate.

In the slowly growing series Killed and Extended Darlings, Cherish Menzo gives new space to ‘killed darlings’ from past projects.

Subtle Whine consists of a video installation and a performance. After discovering the installation in the Beurscafé, we will walk together to the Gouden Zaal for the performance.

about

Cherish Menzo is a choreographer and performer living in Brussels and Amsterdam. With a movement language all her own drawing on hip hop, industrial rap, manga and speculative fiction, among others, she searches for an alienating effect to lead both the spectator and herself away from the familiar. Away from the familiar that we sometimes too easily equate with ‘the (only) truth’. In 2013, she graduated from The Urban Contemporary (JMD) at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Amsterdam. Since then, she has featured in the work of Lisbeth Gruwez, Jan Martens, Nicole Beutler, as well as in collaborations with the likes of Akram Khan, Ula Sickle, Olivier Dubois and Eszter Salamon. Her own work tours internationally and in 2022 her performance DARKMATTER could be seen at Beursschouwburg during Kunstenfestivaldesarts.

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www.grip.house/en/artists/cherish-menzo