Batty Bwoy is a solo performance in collaboration with Karoline Bakken Lund, Veronica Bruce, Jassem Hindi and Ring van Mobius.
- Duration80 min
- Price165 - 290
- StageStudio stage
Dates & times
- 23. June - 18:00
- 24. June - 18:00
- 25. June - 17:00 (Few available)
Through a reappropriation of the Jamaican term “ Batty Bwoy” (litteraly, butt boy), slang for a queer person, the work twists and turns myths to invoke demonic sensitivities and charming cruelties, unfolding vulnerable possibilities in an interplay of consciousness and naivety. The horror and joy of Batty Bwoy, inherent to queer blackness, is unmasked.
Scrutinizing the absurdity of a queer monstrosity, Batty Bwoy articulates the porosity of bodies and languages, their mouths swallowing and regurgitating the corporal fictions projected onto their skins.
Batty Bwoy attacks and embraces sedimented narratives around the fear of the queer body as a perverse and deviant figure. The expression "Batty Bwoy" is used to evoke an ambivalent creature that exists in the threshold of the precarious body, liberated power, joy and batty energy!
The work has found inspiration in mythologies, disgusting stereotypes, feelings and fantasies of the queer body and identities, homophobic dancehall lyrics, 70s Giallo films from Italy, resilient “gully queens” and queer voices in Norway and Jamaica that have visited and taken part of the process.
The project is a co-production with Dansens Hus, Oslo and RAS, Sandnes and premiered January 20th, 2022.
Background material
Årets Heddaprisvinner for beste danseforestilling: Batty Bwoy av Harald Beharie.
Vi gratulerer med velfortjent pris! Forestillingen kan du se denne uka på Dansens Hus: Fredag 23. juni kl. 18.00 (få bill.), lørdag 24. juni kl. 18.00 og søndag 25. juni kl. 17.00 (få bill.) Forestillingen arrangeres i samarbeid med Oslo Pride.
Dansens Hus Podcast Episode 1
Episode 1: Harald Beharie
Contributors
- Artistic responsibility and choreography
Harald Beharie
- Performer
Harald Beharie
- Artistic cooperators
Karoline Bakken Lund
Veronica Bruce - Sculpture
Karoline Bakken Lund
Veronica Bruce - Composer
Ring van Möbius
- Lighting designer
Jassem Hindi
- Outer eyes
Hooman Sharifi
Inés Belli - Photo
Julie Hrnčířová
Supported by: Kulturrådet, Fond for lyd og bilde, Sandnes Kommune and TOU.
Co-producers: Dansens Hus og Regional arena for samtidsdans (RAS) – Sandnes Kulturhus.