Boys Just Want To Have Fun is a 6-8 hour long, multidisciplinary dance-performance artwork presented in white exhibition and gallery spaces. The work addresses the challenge of dismantling masculinity and the taboos surrounding male sensuality and touch in mainstream Western culture. The work does this by addressing representations of gender roles and their connections to hierarchies and power structures that are made visible in the visual art space (art gallery), by exploring the politics of object and subject (presenting a man as an object), and by questioning what the body is and how expressing it and generally exercising individual agency in public space affects the process of creating the work (for both the audience and the performers).
This project utilizes objectification by examining ’man’ as a work of art, creation or fiction. We ask how men and masculinity are manifested (’man-ifest’) and constructed (’man-ifacture’) in our society. The performance is a long-form score, a chain of solos, which also includes moments of interaction between several performers. The audience is actively invited to come and go as they wish and to choose their own spatial path within the performance space, which fosters a sense of active participation and engagement.
Concept: Israel Aloni
Choreography: Israel Aloni & performers
Performers: Victor Persson, Elias Khanamidi, Tomer Giat, Atte Rimpelö, Enzo Hacquin and Fabio Liberti.
Costumes: Amanda Wisselgren
Cinematography: Derek Pedros and Israel Aloni
Editing: Israel Aloni
Project Manager: Johanna Byström
Production Assistant: Arūnas Giambino Mozūraitis
Production: ilDance
ilDance is an international and independent contemporary dance company and organization. It was founded by the company’s current artistic directors Israel Aloni and Lee Brummer in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2012. ilDance operates on a hybrid model that correlates with the creativity, boldness, and agility of ilDance’s choreographic practices.
Performance times:
30.7. 15–23 (open dress rehearsals)
31.7. 15–23
1.8. 15–23
2.8. 12–20
Free admission!
Workshops:
As part of the project, two free workshops (for non-professionals and professionals) will be organized at Forum Box, which will explore bodily, performing arts practices, especially from the perspectives of masculinity, physicality and masculine behavior. The workshops are aimed at those who identify as men (including trans, queer and other masculine identities). The language of the workshops is English.
Lue lisää ja ilmoittaudu:
Sat 19 July 17–19: workshop for self-identifying male people with no extensive experience in physical work and/or performing, more info here.
Sat 26 July 14–17: workshop self-identifying male people with previous experience in physical work and/or performing, more info here.
Photo: Navid Afzalnia.
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