Harald Beharie: Batty Bwoy

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Norwegian-Jamaican choreographer Harald Beharie comes to Berlin for the first time with a captivating solo driven by booming progressive rock.

Through a reappropriation of the Jamaican slang term for a queer person “Batty Bwoy” (literally, butt boy), the performance twists and turns the myths of the black queer body. From a perspective of play and desire, Harald Beharie scrutinizes the absurdity of queer monstrosity and evokes with Batty Bwoy an ambivalent being that exists in the threshold of joy, the precarious body and liberated power. Inspired by mythologies, disgusting stereotypes, feelings, fantasies of the queer body and identities, homophobic dancehall lyrics, 1970s Giallo films from Italy, resilient “gully queens,” and queer voices in Norway and Jamaica, Harald Beharie creates an ambivalent and tense work between tenderness and cruelty.

INFORMATION ON ACCESSIBILITY

Choreography, performance: Harald BeharieArtistic collaborators, sculpture: Karoline Bakken Lund and Veronica BruceComposer: Ring van MöbiusSound designer: Jassem HindiOutside eye: Hooman Sharifi, Inés BelliProducer: Mariana Suikkanen GomesDistribution: Damien ValetteThanks to: Tobias Leira, Ingeborg Staxrud Olerud, Torbjørn Kolbeinsen and Phillip McLeod

A production by Harald Beharie. Supported by Kulturrådet, Fond for lyd og bilde, FFUK, Sandnes Municipality, Oslo Municipality, PAHN – Performing Arts Hub Norway and TOU. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.

Next date: Batty Bwoy

• Date Friday, 22/November/2024 21:00 (1 more date)
• Venue Sophiensaele - Hochzeitssaal
• Address Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin-Mitte