A feminist embrace of MTV's scantily clad hip-hop chicks. With daring and refreshing clarity, Cherish Menzo dissects the misogynistic hip-hop culture and its legendary portraits of women. 

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Venue

Small stage, Barnhusgatan 12-14 3

Duration

50 minutes

18 Nov

19:00

19 Nov

19:00

The 90s, MTV and scantily clad video vixen girls shaking their arses to hip hop. A perfect example of the male gaze run amok, successfully packaging (especially black) women as props to assert a male ego. 

But there is also an ambivalence here, because despite the hypersensual expression under the hard "bitch and slut" of the rap, she is strong and independent. She refuses to be defined by others and undoubtedly challenges the expectations placed on her as a woman. 

The video vixen is a controversial stereotype - contested, debated, almost iconic. In Cherish Menzo's work 'Jezebel' we meet her face to face, complexly deconstructed with sharpness and a sense of justice.   

"Jezebel" is a bold work in which Menzo manages to place the vixen in a new perspective that both challenges and questions what this hip-hop icon might look like today.

Cherish Menzo

Cherish Menzo from the Netherlands is a graduate of The urban contemporary programme at the Hogeschool voor de kunsten in Amsterdam. Since graduating, she has been active as a dancer in works by Eszter Salamon, Akram Khan, Olivier Dubois, Lisbeth Gruwez and Jan Martens, among others. "Jezebel" is her first self-produced performance which has won awards and received critical acclaim.

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Talk with Cherish Menzo and Fanna Ndow Norrby after the performance on 18 November.