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& Theater Utrecht
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FRANK                
Cherish Menzo
/ GRIP
& Theater Utrecht      
icw Dance On Ensemble



    CREDITS

       CONCEPT AND DIRECTION
       Cherish Menzo
       
       CREATION AND PERFORMANCE
       Malick Cissé, Mulunesh, Omagbitse Omagbemi

       SOUND DESIGN
       Maria Muehombo a.k.a M I M I
       
       VIDEO DESIGN
       Andrea Casetti
       
       SOUND AND VIDEO ENGINEERING
       Arthur De Vuyst

       SET DESIGN
       Morgana Machado Marques

LIGHTING DESIGN
        Ryoya Fudetani
       
       DRAMATURGY
       Johanne Affricot, Renée Copraij

       COSTUMES
       Cherish Menzo

       TEXT
       Khadija El Kharraz Alami, Cherish Menzo

       ARTISTIC ADVICE
       Khadija El Kharraz Alami, Nicole Geertruida

       ​​​​​​​SURTITLES
       Jennifer Piasecki

        TECHNICIAN ON TOUR
       Pieter-Jan Buelens,
       Arthur De Vuyst,
       Ryoya Fudetani,
       Hadrien Jeangette

       GRAPHIC DESIGN
       Nick Mattan

  •              The visual DNA of FRANK on this webpage is 
  •              composed by Nick Mattan, with material created by Bas de Brouwer, Andrea Casetti, Cherish Menzo, Jennifer Piasecki, Madeleine Planeix-Crocker, Alice Bröker, Darell Geldrop, Sandra Menzo, Jan Cornelisz. van 't Woudt a.k.a. Johannes Woudanus, Tom Harrad,  Reuben Millns, Black Dog Films and artistic team, Spicemas Corporation icw Pure Grenada …

        
       THANKS TO
       Mildred Caprino,
       Anne Goedhart,
       Rodney Frederik & Winti Formation “Krin Ati,”              
       Daryll Geldrop,
       Ernie Wolf,
       Sandra Menzo,
       Shavelie Menzo,
       Madeleine Planeix-Crocker,
       Sarah Garnaud,
       Alice Bröker,
       Johanna Cool,
       Anne de Andrade,
       Victor Dumont

       PRODUCTION
       GRIP & Theater Utrecht
       (Dagmar Bokma,
       Anne Breure,  
       Maartje de Groot,
       Teun de Loos,
       Philip den Uyl,              
       Hanne Doms,  
       Seline Gosling,
       Anneleen Hermans,
       Tom Hemmer,
       Leonie Jekel,
       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

       IN COLLABORATION WITH
       Dance On Ensemble / Bureau Ritter
       DANCE ON is a project by Bureau Ritter gUG,              
       funded by the German Federal Government                  
       Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

       INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION
       A propic - Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent

       CO-PRODUCTION
      Kunstenfestivaldesarts,
      Carreau 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, le Centre
      Chorégraphique National d’Orléans
      – Direction Maud Le Pladec,
      Tanzquartier Wien,
      DDD – Festival Dias da Dança,          
      festival d’Automne à Paris,
      One Dance  Festival,
      Perpodium



       WITH THE SUPPORT OF
       Centre nationale de la danse à Pantin,
       BRONKS,
       KWP
       Kunstenwerkplaats,
       l’Atelier de Paris -
       Centre de développement chorégraphique national

       WITH THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF
       the Flemish Government,
       Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government
       via Cronos Invest,
       BNG Bank Theaterprijs,
       Charlotte Köhler Prijs van het Cultuurfonds,
       Culture Moves Europe,
       a project funded by the European Union
       and the Goethe- Institut

      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.


   TEXTS
       'Disembodied Narrator'
       Cherish Menzo, inspired by and with fragments
       of the introduction text of 'The Host' in Wes                    
      Anderson’s 'Astroid City' and George Orwell’s '1984'.

       Fragments, alterations, and reinterpretations
       of chapter 4 of 'The Modern Prometheus'
        - Mary Shelley.

        'THE WITNESS, THE MONSTROUS'
       - Cherish Menzo

       'Bam Bam'
       - Chaka Demus and Pliers, Sister Nancy, Toots & the
      Maytals

      ‘Faya Siton’
      - a Surinamese “children's” song

   INSPIRATION,
   REFERENCES,
    BIBLIOGRAPHY
   ‘Baka Gorong’ a place at the back of the former    
    plantations and in front of the swamps
    (wetlands) where the enslaved in Suriname secretly
    went to perform their rituals and to consider fleeing.
    ‘Jab Jab from Grenada’: The word Jab was derived from the French-Creole
    word ‘Diable’ meaning ‘devil’, so a masquerader playing Jab Jab is playing the devil.      
   Jab is a satirical representation of the evil inflicted by the white colonialist on
    the enslaved.
   'Black Skin, White Masks' - Frantz Fanon
   'Plantation Memories, Episodes Of Everyday Racism' - Grada Kilomba
   'Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection' - Julia Jristeva
   'Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus' - Mary Shelly
   'Monstrous Intimacies' - Christina Sharpe
   'Venus in Two Acts' - Saidiya Hartman
   'My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix
    Performing Transgender Rage' - Susan Stryker
   'For the Wild: Dr Báyò Akómoláfé on Coming alive to other senses /300' (podcast)
   'AS TEMPERATURES RISE, EP 9. Báyò Akómoláfé: Monsters, Fugitivity and Sitting        
   in the Lostness of Things' (podcast)
   'The Horror Film' - Peter Hutchings
   'Asteroid City' - Wes Anderson (the host and General Gibson)
   ‘This Thing of Darkness’ Racial Discourse in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein'
    - Allan Lloyd Smith, University of East Anglia


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