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Cherish Menzo/ GRIP & Theater Utrecht icw Dance On Ensemble

FRANK

May

2026

national premiere

Fri
8
Sat
9

Sinopse

Choreographer Cherish Menzo examines the figure of the monster in FRANK — short for Frankenstein. More than (re)producing a physical or visual portrayal of the monster, she is researching the monstrous as an embodiment of beliefs and narratives that terrify and horrify, and yet also attract us. Distortion is a choreographic leitmotif used to generate movement material and as a tool to devour the dance and loosen its structure. Cherish Menzo investigates the action of decay and how something gradually breaking down and becoming less or worse can affect one’s gestures. 

strangeness

decay

distortion

Scene colour photograph. A performer, with her back turned, on a dirty stage. In the background, an intense orange light projected onto a screen.

© Bas de Brouwer

Scene photograph in colour. On a stage surrounded by transparent and black plastic screens, four performers, all dressed in black, move in different directions.

© Bas de Brouwer

Scene photograph in colour. Two performers lift a third performer; they are dressed in black and red gloves.

© Bas de Brouwer

Scene photograph in colour. The blurred silhouette of a hooded interpreter, behind him an orange screen with surtitles projected in English and French.

© Bas de Brouwer

Colour photograph of a scene. Two performers with horrific facial expressions, behind a plastic screen. They are wearing black cloaks and red gloves.

© Bas de Brouwer

Info sobre horário e bilhetes

Fri

8.05

19:30

Sat

9.05

19:30

RivoliStage Grand Auditorium

Aditional info

  • Price 
    2.50€
  • Duration 
    1h30
  • Age rating 
    14+
  • Additional information
    Spoken in English and French
     

Acessibilidades do espetáculo

More limited access
Text
No subtitling in Portuguese
Strobe or intense lights
Loud or intense sounds

Author's bio text

Cherish Menzo is a performing artist and choreographer working from Amsterdam and Brussels. For her artistic work, she is interested in the transformation of the body on stage and in the “embodiment” of different physical images. Implementing distortion, decay, and dissonance, Cherish attempts to detach bodies from forced perceptions and their daily corporeal realities, underlining the complexity and contradictory nature of images that seem recognizable at first glance. 

Ficha Técnica

  • Concept and direction 

    Cherish Menzo 

    Created and performed by 
    Malick Cissé, Mulunesh, Omagbitse Omagbemi 

    Sound design 
    Maria Muehombo a.k.a M I M I 

    Video design 
    Andrea Casetti 

    Sound and video engineering 
    Arthur De Vuyst 

    Set design 
    Morgana Machado Marques 

    Lighting design 
    Ryoya Fudetani 

    Dramaturgy 
    Johanne Affricot, Renée Copraij 

    Costumes 
    Cherish Menzo 

    Text 
    Khadija El Kharraz Alami, Cherish Menzo 

    Artistic advice 
    Khadija El Kharraz Alami, Nicole Geertruida
     

  • Surtitles 
    Jennifer Piasecki 

    Technicians on tour 
    Pieter-Jan Buelens, Arthur De Vuyst, Ryoya Fudetani, Hadrien Jeangette 

    Graphic design 
    Nick Mattan 

    Acknowledgments 
    Mildred Caprino, Anne Goedhart, Rodney Frederik & Winti Formation “Krin Ati,” Daryll Geldrop, Ernie Wolf, Sandra Menzo, Shavelie Menzo, Madeleine Planeix-Crocker, Sarah Garnaud, Alice Bröker, Johanna Cool, Anne de Andrade, Victor Dumont, Keiko Yamaguchi, Haruna Tanaka, Sensei Taneda, Ima Tenko 

    Produced by 
    GRIP & Theater Utrecht (Francisca Alves, Dagmar Bokma, Anne Breure, Maartje de Groot, Teun de Loos, Philip den Uyl, Hanne Doms, Seline Gosling, Anneleen Hermans, Tom Hemmer, Leonie Jekel, Myrthe Ligtenberg, Thomas Lloyd, Rudi Meulemans, Lize Meynaerts, Klaartje Oerlemans, Jennifer Piasecki, Florien Smits, Sylvie Svanberg, Bregt van Deursen, Ad van Mierlo, Yoni Vermeire , Nele Verreyken Vincent Wijlhuizen) 

    In collaboration with 
    Dance On Ensemble / Bureau Ritter 

    International distribution 
    A propic - Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent 

    Co-produced by 
    Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Carreau du Temple - Etablissement culturel et sportif de la Ville de Paris, Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam, Julidans Amsterdam, PACT Zollverein funded by the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Festival Montpellier Danse 2025, le Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans – Direction Maud Le Pladec, Tanzquartier Wien, Teatro Municipal do Porto, festival d’Automne à Paris, One Dance Festival, Perpodium WITH THE SUPPORT OF Centre nationale de la danse à Pantin, BRONKS, KWP Kunstenwerkplaats, l’Atelier de Paris - Centre de développement chorégraphique national 

    With the financial support of the Flemish Government, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government via Cronos Invest, BNG Bank Theaterprijs, Charlotte Köhler Prijs van het Cultuurfonds, Culture Moves Europe, a project funded by the European Union and the Goethe-Institut. 


    This wor was produced with the financial assistance of European Union. The views expressed here in can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union. 

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