“Pink people wanna know if other pink people like hip-hop
How can it still be hip-hop?
That’s like asking, if Black people like
Dirty Harry
Is he still Clint Eastwood?”
Greg Ted
Gangstas, pimps and hoes: the world of US hip-hop is saturated with images of exaggerated masculinity. When Black artists like Cam'ron and Kanye West started a fashion trend of pink plush, fur and velour in the early 2000s, they proved that even Barbie's favourite colour could not harm the image of heterosexual masculinity. For the African-American rappers perfectly embodied the racialised attributions of heterosexuality, hypermasculinity and aggressiveness. In Being Pink Ain't Easy, choreographer Joana Tischkau once again takes a look at the insatiable white desire for black forms of expression. She finds a congenial partner in performer Rudi Natterer. Sometimes powerfully posing, then tearfully fragile, he experiences hyper-marking: he cannot escape his pinkness and is confronted with the hard-to-bear fact of being a profiteer of the white power matrix. In an analytically sharp and at the same time humorous way, the piece searches for the ambivalences that are interwoven between defence mechanisms such as “white fragility” (Robin DiAngelo) and forms of cultural appropriation. The Performance is invited to Tanzplattform Deutschland 2022.
All Information also: tanzfestivalrheinmain.de/de/kalender/being-pink-ain-t-easy
Infos
Language: German and English
Duration: 60 min.
Mousonturm-Coproduction
09.11. Small Talk after the show
10.11. Artist Talk after the show
Admission is only possible with proof of negative Corona status (tested, vaccinated or recovered). Test results may not be more than 24 hours old. General rules of hygiene and physical distancing must be observed. The event will operate not at full audience capacity. Wearing a medical mouth-nose covering is mandatory everywhere, also when seated. More information on Hygiene and Safety.
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Choreography: Joana Tischkau
Performance: Rudi Natterer
Sound Design: Frieder Blume
Dramaturgy & Artistic Collaboration: Nuray Demir & Elisabeth Hampe
Costumes: Nadine Bakota
Set: Inga Danysz
Lights: Juri Rendler
Production Management: Lisa Gehring
A Joana Tischkau production, co-produced by SOPHIENSÆLE, Münchner Kammerspiele and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm as part of the Tanzplattform Rhein-Main. Funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main. Supported by the Nationales Performance Netz Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
An event of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main in the frame of Tanzfestivals Rhein-Main. Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, a project of Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and Hessian State Ballet, is made possible by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and is funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art and the Foundation Alliance [Aventis Foundation, BHF BANK Foundation , Crespo Foundation, Dotter Foundation, dr. Marschner Foundation, Foundation Polytechnic Society Frankfurt am Main].
