The Jamaican expression ‘BATTY BWOY’ is a discriminatory slang term for a queer person. By reappropriating these myths of a perverse and deviant body, Harald Beharie hijacks and transforms these figures, the better to attack and embrace them. This solo is the emergence of an ambivalent being, at once vulnerable, powerful and joyful.
Monday 24 March: Start the evening with Action // Tradition // Couvercle and WHIP-SOLO at the Théâtre de l’Oiseau-Mouche
Choregraphy, performance : Harald Beharie
Artistic collaboration, sculpture: Karoline Bakken Lund, Veronica Bruce
Music: Ring van Möbius
Sound engineer: Jassem Hindi
Outside view: Hooman Sharifi, Inés Belli
Production : Mariana Suikkanen Gomes.
Distribution : Damien Valette – Soutien : Kulturrådet, Fond for lyd og bilde, FFUK, Sandnes Municipality, Oslo Municipalityand TOU
Coproduction : Dansens Hus, Oslo and RAS – Remerciements : Tobias Leira, Ingeborg Staxrud Olerud, Torbjørn Kolbeinsen, Phillip McLeod.
Price : Hedda du meilleur spectacle de danse 2023, nomination pour le prix de l’Association norvégienne des critiques 2022.
