Harald Beharie

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Harald Beharie

Batty Bwoy

  • 31 August
    14:30 – 15:50
  • Zentralbibliothek | Herzkammer
  • Wheelchair Access Impaired mobility
  • Total duration: 80min
  • Area: 55
    Performing Arts Hub Norway

Batty Bwoy

Choreography: Harald Beharie

Batty Bwoy is a solo which does not 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. 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 in the process.

Artistic Crew / Team:
Choreography/Performance: Harald Beharie
Artistic collaborators and sculpture: Karoline Bakken Lund og Veronica Bruce
Composer: Ring van Möbius
Sound designer: Jassem Hindi
Outside eye: Hooman Sharifi, Inés Belli

Thanks to Tobias Leira, Ingeborg Staxrud Olerud, Torbjørn Kolbeinsen and Phillip McLeod.

Co-Producers:
Dansens Hus, Oslo and RAS, Sandnes

Funders and Supporters:
Norwegian Art Council, Fond for lyd og bilde, FFUK, Sandnes Municipality, Oslo Municipality and TOU.

Batty Bwoy