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?
(from What is Hip Hop? Greg Tate)
Gangstas, Pimps und Hoes: The US rap world is imbued with images of exaggerated masculinity. When Black artists such as Cam'ron and Kanye West launched a fashion trend of pink plush, fur and velour in the early 2000s, they proved that even Barbie’s favorite color could not damage their image of heterosexual hypermasculinity. Joana Tischkau draws on this occasion to reveal the fragility of social constructions such as race and gender: To what extent are bodies of the "other" used to consolidate the structural power of white Cis masculinity?
CONCEPT & CHOREOGRAPHY: Joana Tischkau PERFORMANCE: Rudi Natterer DRAMATURGICAL & ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE: Nuray Demir, Ellias Hampe SOUND DESIGN: Frieder Blume STAGEDESIGN: Inga Danysz LIGHT: Juri Rendler COSTUME: Nadine Bakota COSTUME PRINT: Justus Gelberg PRODUCTION MANAGMENT Lisa Gehring PICTURES: Justus Gelberg, Dorothea Tuch, zombienanny
2019
A production by Joana Tischkau in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE, Münchner Kammerspiele and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm as part of the Tanzplattform Rhein-Main. The Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, a project of Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and the Hessisches Staatsballett is made possible by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and supported by the Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, the The Hessen State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts and the Stiftungsallianz [Aventis Foundation, BHF BANK Stiftung, Crespo Foundation, Dr. Marschner-Stiftung, Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main]. Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt. Supported by the NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ Koproduktionsförderung Tanz, supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
