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A performer, dressed in a loose sleeveless jersey, pink sports pants and a white bandana, lies on a pink cushion. His left index finger points into the distance, and his left leg is bent. The pose is modeled after Michelangelo's ceiling fresco, "The Creation of Adam." In the background, the stage set is framed by a framework of pink struts.
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BEING PINK AIN'T EASY

Joana Tischkau
digital

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 Tate)

Gangstas, pimps and hoes: The rap world in the US is drowning in images of excessive masculinity. When Black artists such as Cam’ron and Kanye West set off a fashion trend of pink plush, fur and velour in the early 2000s, they proved that even Barbie’s favorite color cannot harm the image of heterosexual masculinity. With the performance Being Pink Ain’t Easy, the choreographer Joana Tischkau makes the fragility of social constructs such as race and gender visible and poses a question to what extent are the bodies of the “others” used to reinforce the structural power of white cis masculinity?

Playing times
We 26.05 19:30 - 20:30 Th 27.05 19:30 - 20:30 Fr 28.05 19:30 - 20:30 Sa 29.05 19:30 - 20:30
Duration:

60 minutes

Tickets
Ticket price regular: 10,00 €
Ticket price reduced: 5,00 €
Link: https://dringeblieben.de/sophiensaele/videos
Phone: 030/283 52 66
E-Mail: ticketing [at] sophiensaele.com
Digital Event
What: Video on Demand/Dance film
Link: https://dringeblieben.de/sophiensaele/videos
The film will be shown on the external online platform dringeblieben.de. There you'll also purchase your ticket. After purchasing a ticket you will receive a code by mail, which is valid for the event on 2 devices. If you have problems with the booking or the stream, please contact: chittka@sophiensaele.com or 030/27890045.

Cast

Concept + Choreography: Joana Tischkau
Performance: Rudi Äneas Natterer
Dramaturgical & Artistic Assistance: Nuray Demir & Elisabeth Hampe
Sound Design: Frieder Blume
Stage: Inga Danysz
Light: Juri Rendler
Costume: Nadine Bakota
Production management: Lisa Gehring

Credits

A production by Joana Tischkau in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE, Münchner Kammerspiele and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm as part of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main. The Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, a project of Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and the Hessischen Staatsballett is made possible by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and supported 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 Stiftung, Crespo Foundation, Dr. Marschner-Stiftung, Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main]. Funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt. Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK co-production support dance, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. The revival is supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

Artists

Joana Tischkau

Joana Tischkau dances. Her first dancing memory goes back to Kaoma’s 1989 Hit Lambada which she moved to at a children's birthday party. This experience led her to enroll at her neighborhood dance school for training in Jazzdance, Hip Hop and Videoclip Dancing. In 2010 she decided to make it official so she went on to study contemporary dance and theatre at Coventry University in the UK and choreography and performance at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen. Her artistic practice is a hybrid mash-up where the writings of bell hooks meet beatboxing, whiteness is turned into a work-out, youtube tutorials become here only source material and where Roberto Blanco is hailed as an afro-german hero, subversively distorting socio-cultural practices, codes and meanings inscribed onto bodies of color within the context of pop culture, western art and dance history. Joana works independently as a choreographer, dancer and community dance artist and in teaching. One of her recent productions, PLAYBLACK is a copy of the 1990 Kids Television program Mini Playback Show and was invited to the Tanzplattform Deutschland in 2020. PLAYBLACK formed the conceptual breeding ground for BEING PINK AIN'T EASY.

A performer, dressed in a loose sleeveless jersey, pink sports pants and a white bandana, lies on a pink cushion. His left index finger points into the distance, and his left leg is bent. The pose is modeled after Michelangelo's ceiling fresco, "The Creation of Adam." In the background, the stage set is framed by a framework of pink struts.
A performer, dressed in a loose sleeveless jersey, pink sports pants and a white bandana, holds a cell phone to his ear with his right hand. He is sitting on a pink cushion. In front of him in the left half of the image is a pink plush garment on the floor. His playing surface is framed by a framework of pink struts.

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