Cherish Menzo's JEZEBEL lands at PuSh Festival in copresentation with New Works, January 22 and 23
Electrifying performance reclaims hyper-sexualized “video vixen” of hip hop’s golden era
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Cherish Menzo in JEZEBEL. Photo by Bas de Brouwer
Choreographer and dancer Cherish Menzo, working between Brussels and Amsterdam, is interested in the transformation of the body onstage and in the embodiment of different physical images. On January 22 and 23, the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and New Works are partnering to bring both a performance and workshop by Menzo to the Scotiabank Dance Centre.
In JEZEBEL, Menzo reclaims the hyper-sexualized “video vixen” of hip hop’s golden era through an electrifying collision of physical performance, hip-hop visual language, and chopped-and-screwed sound. Drawing on MTV-era aesthetics and bass-heavy distortion, the work stretches familiar imagery until its artifice cracks open—revealing a figure who is both muse and maker, unapologetic and self-possessed. JEZEBEL asks urgent questions about gaze, authorship, and who gets to define what we see.
On January 24, artists and arts workers are invited to In Practice with Cherish Menzo & Jennifer Piasecki, a conversation on collaboration, care, and wellbeing within artistic organizations.
Learn more and get tickets through New Works.
Post sponsored by New Works.
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