‘Boys Just Want To Have Fun’ is a durational multi-disciplinary dance-performance act to be presented in white exhibition/gallery spaces. The work confronts the challenge of deconstructing the ‘man’ and taboos around men’s sensuality and tactility in mainstream Western culture by addressing power dynamics and hierarchies of social positioning in the visual art space (the gallery), politics of object and subject (presenting man as an object), questioning what a body is and how its utterances are informed by its process of becoming, as well as the practice of individual agency in a public space (both for the public and the performers).

In this project, objectification is utilised to examine the ‘man’ as an artwork, a creation, or a fiction. The question is, how are men being ‘man-ified’ and ‘man-ifactured’ in our society?

The public will be actively invited to come and leave as they please, as well as choose their own spatial trajectory in the performance space, fostering a sense of active participation and engagement.

CREDITS

Concept: Israel Aloni

Choreography: Israel Aloni & performers

Performers: Victor Persson, Elias Khanamidi, Tomer Giat, Atte Rimpelö, Enzo Hacquin and Fabio Liberti. Additional cast members in 2024: Elias Kraft and Arūnas Giambino Mozūraitis

Costumes: Amanda Wisselgren

Camera work: Derek Pedros and Israel Aloni 

Video editing: Israel Aloni 

Project manager: Johanna Byström

Production assistant: Arūnas Giambino Mozūraitis

Creation process: Summer - Fall 2024 

Premiered: 1-3 September 2024, Belgrade Pride Week, co-production with Heartefact Fund

Production: ilDance

For further information contact: johannabystrom@ildance.se

The presentation is supported by Perform Europe. Read more HERE