Joana Tischkau:
Being pink ain't easy
Being pink ain't easy
Gangstas, pimps and hoes: the US rap world is saturated with images of inflated masculinity. When Black artists like Cam’ron and Kanye West started a trend in pink plush, fur and suede in the early 2000s, they proved that even Barbie’s favourite colour couldn’t affect the racist attributions that had accumulated around the Black heterosexual male. BEING PINK AIN’T EASY reverses social constructions such as race and gender choreographically when a white dancer embodies movements and poses tagged as Black. An ambivalent realm of experience in pink between „white fragility“ and cultural appropriation.
NOTES FOR VISITORS
There will be a strong smell of meat at some point in the piece. The show comprises sudden light changes involving flash and stroboscopic lights and a total blackout. There will be moments with loud sounds. Hearing protection is provided at the entrance. The audience area on the tribune is seated. We recommend arriving early to select a suitable seat. Click HERE to find information about performance spaces and pathways, accessible restrooms, parking, directions to the theater, a 360° video tour of the building, and more.
Concept, Choreography Joana Tischkau Performance Rudi Natterer Dramaturgy, Artistic Assistance Nuray Demir, Elisabeth Hampe Costume Nadine Bakota Costume Print Justus Gelberg Sound Design Frieder Blume Scenography Inga Danysz Lighting Juri Rendler Production Management Lisa Gehring
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 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.
JOANA TISCHKAU dances. Her first dancing memory goes back to Kaoma’s 1989 Hit Lambada which she moved to at a children's birthday party. This experience led her to enroll at her neighborhood dance school for training in Jazzdance, Hip Hop and Videoclip Dancing. In 2010 she decided to make it official so she went on to study contemporary dance and theatre at Coventry University in the UK and choreography and performance at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen. Her artistic practice is a hybrid mash-up where the writings of bell hooks meet beatboxing, whiteness is turned into a work-out, youtube tutorials become here only source material and where Roberto Blanco is hailed as an afro-german hero, subversively distorting socio-cultural practices, codes and meanings inscribed onto bodies of color within the context of pop culture, western art and dance history. Joana works independently as a choreographer, dancer and community dance artist and in teaching. One of her recent productions, PLAYBLACK is a copy of the 1990 Kids Television program Mini Playback Show and was invited to the Tanzplattform Deutschland in 2020. PLAYBLACK formed the conceptual breeding ground for BEING PINK AIN'T EASY.
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