JIGABOO

ABOUT THE PIECE

// Premiere: 09.06.2000 (Bonn)

// Touring: 2000: STUEKKE (Berlin) / "Festival-Off", Avignon / 2001: Festival "Schrittmacher", Aachen / Chengdu (China) /

2002: Freiburg

// Powered by: Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes NRW / Kulturamt der Stadt Bonn / Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V. aus den Mitteln des Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Angelegenheiten der Kultur und der Medien

JIGABOO – FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO BE WHITE is an hour-long pas de deux about encounters with strangers. This dance project is based on a story by Afro-American author Darius James, called ´Negrophobia´, a literary experiment, a tough, provocative journey into the iconography of pop- American culture, a potent digression into racism. 

BY AND WITH

Concept and Direction: Rainald Endraß /// Choreography and Dance: Rafaële Giovanola, Marcelo de Melo /// Lighting Design: Marc Brodeur /// Stage Design: Frank Chamier /// Sound Design: Stephan Mauel /// Costume Design: Adelheid Pohlmann /// Choreographic Advice and Stage Management: Antoinette Laurent

PRESS REVIEWS

"JIGABOO is captivating in its clever use of the multidimensional. As a departure from ritual forms of encounters this `classical´ pas de deux employs the popular dance forms of youth, i.e., hip-hop, techno, and disco. Wonderful unornamented dancerly expression, accented with suggestive musical collages." 

(Jürgen Bieler, Bonner Rundschau, 13.06.2002)

"In this dance piece Rafaële Giovanola and Marcelo de Melo allow equal space in depicting the anxiety and attraction, fear and fascination which the unfamiliar provokes. Audiences in Bonn were impressed by the dancers´ physical control."

(Susanne Haase-Mühlbauer, General-Anzeiger, Bonn, 13.06.2002)

PRESS REVIEWS FESTIVAL OFF IN AVIGNON

"Totally incredible! A William Forsythe dancer performing with a Pina Bausch dancer. The result is a completely freaked out duo. It is about a teenage blond´s dream, with a black man as the main character. Fantastic sequences leading into another. A delicate subject that met the challenge in an outstanding performance." (Philippe Verrièle, Les Saisons de la Danse, Octobre 2000)

"... brilliant work" 

(Benjamin Chaix, Tribune de Genève, 11. Juli 2000)

"A magical pas de deux." 

(Jean-Michel Gautier, La Marseillaise, 23. Juli 2000)

"... brutal and intense ..." (rel)

(Le Dauphiné libéré - Vaucluse matin)