Kære gæst (english below)
Vi må desværre meddele, at forestillingen Batty Bwoy af Harald Beharie, der spiller den 8. og 9. april hos Dansehallerne, er aflyst grundet en akut opstået skade.
Du vil naturligvis få refunderet billetprisen automatisk til den konto, du benyttede ved køb.
Hvis du har spørgsmål, er du meget velkommen til at skrive en mail til: spe@dansehallerne.dk
Vi beklager ulejligheden og håber at byde dig velkommen til en anden forestilling i nær fremtid.
Venlig hilsen
Dansehallerne
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Dear guest
We are sorry to inform you that the performance Batty Bwoy by Harald Beharie, scheduled for 8 and 9 April at Dansehallerne, has been cancelled due to an acute injury.
The ticket price will be refunded automatically to the account used for the purchase.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at: spe@dansehallerne.dk
We apologise for the inconvenience and hope to welcome you to another performance in the near future.
Kind regards
Dansehallerne
Batty Bwoy is a solo which doesn’t start with a question, or a critique, but from a place of play and desire, entangled in violence and charming cruelty. Through a reappropriation of the Jamaican term “Batty Bwoy” (literally, butt boy), slang for a queer person, the work twists and turns the myths of the black queer body unfolding vulnerable possibilities in an interplay of consciousness and naivety.
Scrutinizing the absurdity of a queer monstrosity, Batty Bwoy articulates through the porosity of bodies and languages, their mouths swallowing and regurgitating the corporal fictions projected onto their skins.
In an odyssey of droning prog-rock, Batty Bwoy attacks and embraces sedimented narratives around the fear of the queer body as a perverse and deviant figure. The expression “Batty Bwoy” is used to evoke an ambivalent creature that exists in the threshold of the precarious body, liberated power, joy, and batty energy! The work has found inspiration in mythologies, disgusting stereotypes, feelings, and fantasies of the queer body and identities, homophobic dancehall lyrics, 70s Giallo films from Italy, resilient “gully queens,” and queer voices in Norway and Jamaica that have visited and taken part of the process.
