A workshop with choreographer Cherish Menzo, exploring her research into movement and monstrosity.
Cherish Menzo describes her research:
“In my current research, monstrosity becomes a way to reshape and strategize dominant and accepted narratives.
Using the body, the voice, and sound, we will attempt to develop a common lexical that refers to existing narratives that we might recognize as the "familiar" or the "known."
By applying distortion, decay, and dissonance, we will strive to challenge these existing matters. Glitching, scratching, and remixing this common lexical, we seek the Uncanny, the Enigmatic, and the Monstrous.
In my current research, monstrosity becomes a way to reinform and to strategies upon dominant and accepted narrations.”
This workshop is open to performers, artists, dancers, movers and makers. We aim for workshops to be accessible for all physicalities. If you'd like more detail about this, or if there is anything else you'd like to talk through that would make attending easier and more enjoyable for you, please email hello@theworkroom.org.uk
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Part of Take Me Somewhere 2025.