With the support of the Flemish Government
The working of GRIP in Antwerp is made possible in part by the Open Call for Structural Artistic-Cultural Initiatives of the City of Antwerp.
Schedule :19:30 - 20:30
Language : English
Place : Ravenstein circuit
with Cherish Menzo & Bauke Lievens
Back on Bozar’s sofa for a new edition of our Sofa Sessions! An intimate moment of exchange between artists and audience, in an intergenerational dialogue about beauty and ugliness echoing the Bellezza e Bruttezza and Picture Perfect exhibitions.
Sofa Session #5 will feature Bauke Lievens, a dramaturg in theatre and circus, teacher and artistic researcher across various performing arts disciplines, as well as Cherish Menzo, a performing artist and choreographer based in Amsterdam and Brussels.
In her work, Cherish Menzo explores how the body can transform itself on stage and embody different ideas and identities. Through new forms of movement and ways of being, she questions whether beauty and the grotesque can exist on equal footing. Together with Bauke Lievens, they will examine the notion of able-bodiedness on stage and in society, while exploring the ambiguities of the grotesque — something that can both attract and repel, and that at times even shapes our understanding of beauty.
Before taking your seat for the discussion, let yourself be inspired by a visit of the Picture Perfect exhibition. An introductory tour will be offered by Tinhinane Hessani in French at 18:30.
Cherish Menzo © Laetitia Bica - Bauke Lievens © Fotokultuur/Tom Van Mele
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