Artistic director Israel Aloni together with the performers Victor Persson, Elias Khanamidi, Tomer Giat, Atte Rimpelö, Enzo Hacquin and Fabio Liberti will be in residency at KHIDI Club, Tbilisi, Georgia from 02-11 November 2025, they will have an open rehearsal on 12 November and they will perform from 13-15 November 2025.
‘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 member in 2024: Arūnas Giambino Mozūraitis and Elias Kraft.
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
Premiere: 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