‘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: Arūnas Mozūraitis, Victor Persson, Elias Kraft, Elias Khanamidi, Tomer Giat, Atte Rimpelä

Original soundtrack: Didi Erez

Photographer: Derek Pedros

Production manager: Hanna Magdalena Gödl

Production assistant: Arūnas Mozūraitis

Creation process: Summer - Fall 2024

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

For further information contact:
Hanna Gödl
hannagodl@ildance.se