Confronting the echoes of the ‘one drop’ rhythm and the ‘one drop rule’ with power, anti-racist love and resistance.
DANCE: ONE DROP by Sonya Lindfors & working group
Friday, 18.10.2024 at 20:30 + talk
Saturday, 19.10.2024 at 20:30
Beursschouwburg, 20 – 28 Rue Auguste Orts, 1000 Brussels
The performance lasts 105 minutes and takes place in English.
The performance takes place in the Golden Place and is accessible to people with reduced mobility. If you require information or assistance please talk to staff on your arrival or contact the team via 02 550 03 50 or hello@beursschouwburg.be.
€16 standard
€12 reduction (-26, artist, cultural worker, teacher, sex worker, jobseeker)
€8 students
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Cover image by Tiu Makkonen.
About ONE DROP
ONE DROP, a new performance by Sonya Lindfors & working group, is a speculative summoning, a decolonial dream, an autopsy of the Western stage and an operetta. Defying definition and belonging to multiple categories, the work dives into the poetics and politics of relations, creating a performance that reignites connections lost or forgotten.
The work’s title refers to two frameworks: the “one drop” rhythm, a reggae-style drum beat, and the “one drop rule” of the Race Separation Act in the United States from the early 1900s. According to this rule, a single drop of “Black blood” made a person “Black” despite their appearance. Through these starting points, the work interrogates the ghosts of the Western stage and its entanglements with capitalism, coloniality, and modernity.
‘One Drop’ continues Sonya Lindfors’ series of works dealing with power, representation, and Black body politics. This is the second time Lindfors presents at Beursschouwburg, following ‘Cosmic Latte’ in 2019.
Sonya Lindfors
Award winning Cameroonian-Finnish choreographer and artistic director Sonya Lindfors creates important work exploring power, representation and Black body politics. She is the Artistic Director and founding member of UrbanApa, an interdisciplinary and counter hegemonic arts community that offers a platform for new ideas and feminist art practices.
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Credits
Choreography & directing: Sonya Lindfors
Original group of performers: Antonia Atarah, Hamis Ahmed, Nori Kin, Alma Bø Getachew, Mariama Slåttøy, Geoffrey Erista, Isabella Shaw
Performers on tour 2024: Isabella Shaw, Maele Sabuni, Deogracias Masomi, Geoffrey Erista, Marlon Moilanen, Miranda Chambers, Selina Jones, Alen Nsambu, DK Fashola
Sound design: Jussi Matikainen
Light design: Erno Aaltonen
Set design: Aino Koski
Costume design: Sanna Levo
Choreographer’s assistant: Janina Salmela
Costume assistant: Angel Emmanuel
Rehearsal assistant & choreographic support: Johanna Karlberg
Sound designers assistant: Timo Tikka
Seamstress: Elina Tuomisto
Contributors to the process: Ornilia Ubisse, Judith Arupa, Alen Nsambu, Johanna Karlberg, Jaakko Pallasvuo
Dramaturgical support: Jaakko Pallasvuo
Libretto: Sonya Lindfors
Other texts: Sonya Lindfors & working group
Production: UTT ry and Sonya Lindfors
Co-production: Zodiak – center for new dance, Goethe-Institut (International Coproduction Fund), Big Pulse Dance Alliance (a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union), Dance Umbrella, Julidans, Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux, Apap – FEMINIST FUTURES (a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union), Beursschouwburg
Residencies: Tanzfabrik berlin, KWP Kunstenwerkplaats, Buda Kortrijk, Beursschouwburg
Supported by Koneen Säätiö, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, Alfred Kordelinin säätiö, Nordic Culture Point
Promotional images & trailer: Tuukka Ervasti
Sonya Lindfors’ ONE DROP at Beursschouwburg takes place in collaboration with the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux as part of the pARTir initiative funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.
PARTir is a collaborative initiative of the Finnish cultural and academic institutes aimed at creating a cultural roadmap towards responsible international mobility.
