Dance

Courtney May Robertson — HUNTER - OFF RECORD!!!

A performer and her silicone doppelgänger transform disgust and perversion into liberating power.

➤ STUK Soetezaal
➤ Thursday 18 September: 21:30
➤ Friday 19 September: 21:45
➤ Closed doors, no drinks allowed

HUNTER is an interdisciplinary performance that critically examines pervasive misogynistic roles assigned to women in three key ‘Body Genres’ in Film: Pornography, Horror and Melodrama. Together with her hyper-realistic life-sized doppelgänger in doll form, Courtney May Robertson weaves a tapestry of images in which the grotesque, (sexual) perversion and emotional excess become triumphant symbols for bodily autonomy and empowerment.

In the frame of STUK START she present the offspring version HUNTER - OFF RECORD!!!

Performance, installation, ritual and experience merge, juxtaposing the aesthetics of a BDSM dungeon with the emotional resonance of an emo girl’s bedroom. Sad. Horny. Angry. Shamelessly... Propelled by an industrial soundscape composed by Acidic Male, HUNTER embraces self-destruction as an act of self-preservation.

Concept, Choreography, Video Design & Performance Courtney May Robertson Sound Design: Puck Schot (Acidic Male) Light & Stage Design Manuel Boutreur Puppet Design Ronald Schinkelshoek Dramaturgy Lara van Lookeren Wig Design Zoe Morgan Costume Design Matija Franjes Discomfort Devices BNDSN Movement Assistant Olympia Kotopoulos Creative Producer Lena Meijer Technical Producer tour Stefan Prokop Tour Technicians Stefan Prokop, Merijn Boers & Jelle Rebel Tour Manager Anna Møller PR & Communication Jannes Heidinga Co-produced by Dansateliers, Dans Brabant, ICK Artist Space & Grand Theatre Groningen Financially supported by Stimuleringsfonds Design Grant, Fonds 21, AFK & Gemeente Rotterdam With thanks to Yoko Haveman