DISTORTION – DISSONANCE – DECAY: Workshop with Cherish Menzo

Monday 20th October | 11:00am — 1.00pm
Free but ticketed
Tramway Studio, Tramway (Directions)

BSL Interpreted (by request) Due to limited places, BSL is offered ‘on demand’. Please select a BSL ticket when booking.

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 FREE but booking is essential. Limited places available. Please wear clothes that you feel comfortable to move in.

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

Access

This is a physical movement workshop which uses the body, the voice, and sound.

This workshop is open to performers, artists, dancers, movers and makers.

BSL Interpreted (by request)  Due to limited places, BSL is offered ‘on demand’. Please select a BSL ticket when booking.

Language: English with option for BSL

Venue and Seating: Tramway Studio, Tramway (First Floor). Wheelchair accessible via lift. 

Artist Bio

Cherish Menzo (°1988, The Netherlands) is a performing artist and choreographer based in Amsterdam and Brussels. For her artistic work, she is interested in the transformation of the body on stage and in the “embodiment” of different physical images. Implementing distortion, decay, and dissonance, Cherish attempts to detach bodies from forced perceptions and their daily corporeal realities, underlining the complexity and contradictory nature of images that seem recognizable at first glance.

Cherish graduated in 2013 from The Urban Contemporary program (JMD) of the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Amsterdam and since danced in productions by choreographers such as Eszter Salamon, Akram Khan, Leo Lerus, Hanzel Nezza, Benjamin Kahn, Olivier Dubois, Ula Sickle, Lisbeth Gruwez, Jan Martens, and Nicole Beutler.

She has been creating her own work since 2016: EFES (2016 – together with Nicole Geertruida), LIVE (2018 – with Müşfik Can Müftüoğlu), JEZEBEL (2019), DARKMATTER (2022) and KILLED AND EXTENDED DARLINGS: SUBTLE WHINE in the frame of the research program Welcome To Our Guesthouse (2023) (Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam). Currently she is working on FRANK (premiering May 2025.

(Cherish Menzo is one of GRIP’s artistic leaders. GRIP is a dance organisation led by choreographers Femke Gyselinck, Jan Martens, Steven Michel and Cherish herself.)