Creations
Bodyscan 223 by Robin Nimanong,
Winner of the Next Best Fringe Award 2020: ICK Artist in Residence
“By offering a hyper-artificial mashup, we scan big questions about true ownership for society’s misfits and gender-benders. Bodyscan 223 is discussing radical freedom through a provocative yet vulnerable process. Scanning Queer Bodies, continuously evolving and transforming.”
Bodyscan 223 is a media dance event, scanning our conflicted ideas about technology, accessibility and queer identity. The dancers present their queer bodies as testimonies against errored structures of society. The audience scans their own experience through the non-conforming performers. Together they will enter a futuristic cyberpunk experience. Artificial Intelligence and big data are increasing inequality and threatening democracy. What if algorithms will control your lifepath? Will credits control our emotions?
There has been more and more online safe queer spaces popping up online. But when are they real? The dancers will discover the current reality in this queer hybrid research.
TWO TWO THREE or 2-2-3 explains how we are moving from male and female (2) to more options (3). Technology explains the norm. But there is a new fluid area to discover, which goes in between and beyond, discussing paradigms and stereotypes, feeling disidentified and misidentification, trying to overcome a succession of errors from the normative and delusional. Together we go into unfamiliar and hopefully new effective attitudes, with an effort to understand one another.
CREDITS
Media Artist, VJ/DJ: Irene Cassarini /AKA/ GUENTER RÅLER
Dance Artists: Joley Rammon Groeizaam & Jeroen Janssen
Dramaturgy: Lara van lookeren
Production: Athina Liakopoulou
Scenography: RFX_propmaking & Creative Coding Utrecht
Special thanks to ICK Amsterdam, het Huis Utrecht, Vrijburcht theatre and Janivo
Supported by: Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunsten & Cultuurfonds
Review theaterkrant:
Het is deze danstaal die Bodyscan 223 tot zo’n bijzondere ervaring maakt. Het is een verademing om drie dansers te zien die genderfluïditeit op volstrekt overtuigende wijze tot de kern van een bewegingsidioom hebben gemaakt: scène na scène laten de performers een volstrekt unieke stijl zien.
Postscriptum 223
Postscriptum 223 is the postscript of Robins previous work where after he discovered, that self-care is a form of activism and that it helps us to positively develop our relationship within ourselves and communicate that to the outside world. TWO TWO THREE of 2-2-3 means moving from male and female (2) to more options (3). There is not just black and white, but a lot more in between and beyond. This grey area is reflected in the transformation during the performance, and is most evident in the "feminine power" and "gray box" dance scenes; where a balance between male and female energy is sought from different perspectives.
"We research the grey area of our identity, striving for acceptance using different perspectives. Creating a journey of gentle peacefulness and abruption."
Aphrodisiac II - NEXT BEST FRINGE AWARD 2020
During these weird and difficult times, but also beautiful and progressing. Our topic speaks loud about empowering the queer community and strengthening individual unheard voices. Robin Nimanong, Rebecca Collins and Wolf Govaerts, all graduates from Modern Theatre Dance in Amsterdam, are going to join forces and show you their own truth about this topic through dance and film. A collaboration with Bo Bolderink.
Aphrodisiac II is a LGBTQ+ dance movie, searching for self-definition, fighting for their own truth. Not scared to reveal inner beauty and inevitable scars.
Robin is an androgynous artist with his culture rooted from Thailand. He brings his LadYboy practice to the body and screen for you. A non-gender approach to movement, style and identity that will create new visions on how we built and experience our own society. Aphrodisiac II is an emotional fantasy initiative that, in the midst of the global crisis reinforce solidarity. Our emotional world is one common place where we can share honesty, truth and deeper meaning. But that doesn’t happen enough. The necessity to speak the unspoken, to express the suppressed. Without any shame to be yourself, discovering yourself and your relation to others.
This queer cross over between dance and film, is supporting the LGBTQ+ community by fulfilling a fantasy identity. By using the universal language of dance, these dancers speak their truth, calling out toxic masculinity, racism or emotional abuse by standing their own ground. By showing truth, vulnerability, weakness and strength.
BULLFIGHT
Based on the bull scene in the book ‘The lonesome traveler’ from Jack Kerouack. Robin created Bullfight for Batsheva ensemble creates.
How is it to live, just so you can die like a bull? Just like in a bullfight you get thrown into the ring. Your future is already written down for you. Is there still space to take control over your own life? Shared at Batshevas Ensemble Creates in Tel Aviv, 2018.
“And I saw how everybody dies and nobody’s going to
care, I felt how awful it is to live just so you can die like a bull trapped in a
screaming human ring.”
— Jack Kerouack