Distorted Rap Body / Chopped And Screwed Body
For this workshop Cherish invites you to explore the slowed-down, heavy-based and richly textured music genre Chopped and Screwed on our moving bodies and performativity.
Everyone can participate regardless of their age (minimum age: 12 years old) and background. No dance or theatre experience is required.
Distorted Rap Body / Chopped And Screwed Body is a research and experiment in which we apply the Chopped and Screwed technique (also called Slowed and Throwed) to body movement. Chopped and Screwed is a technique of remixing music and lyrics originally used on hip-hop music. The technique was developed in the Houston hip-hop scene in the early 1990s by DJ Screw. The screwed technique is accomplished by drastically slowing the tempo and applying techniques such as skipping beats, record scratching, stop-time, repetition, and affecting portions of the original composition to create a “chopped-up”, “oozing” version of the song.
To apply this technique, we are exploring to bring time distortion and over articulation to the body. How does the relationship between the mouth, voice, sound, muscles, tissues reinform and redefine the performing body and can propose new narrations, spaces, and body forms?
b. 1988, The Netherlands, graduated in 2013 from The Urban Contemporary (Jazz Musical Dans) at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Amsterdam. After graduating, she danced in various productions by different choreographers such as Eszter Salamon, Akram Khan, Leo Lerus, Hanzel Nezza, Benjamin Kahn, Olivier Dubois, Ula Sickle, Lisbeth Gruwez, Jan Martens and Nicole Beutler. The last five years she has been creating her own work. After collaborating with Nicole Geertuida (EFES) and Müşfik Can Müftüoğlu (LIVE), she created JEZEBEL in 2019. JEZEBEL is a dance performance inspired by the phenomenon Video Vixen from the hip-hop clips of the late 1990s. Menzo is mainly interested in the transformation of the body on stage and in the “embodiment” of different physical images. Images that seem recognizable at first glance, but subsequently highlighting the complexity and contradiction questioning the apparent norm.