Chicks, Kicks & Glory
Chicks, Kicks & Glory dreams from kickboxing girls
In large cities Kickboxing is becoming an increasingly popular sport among girls. Many girls with a Moroccan background are practising Kickboxing and other heavy martial arts.
Kosmopolis Rotterdam presents along with FAT and Imagine IC: Chicks, Kicks & Glory.
Chicks, Kicks & Glory consists of two parts:
Exhibition comic drawings
A series of comic books, in which for the first time in the Dutch comic history Moslimas play a key role. They tell how they deal with femininity, physicality, discipline, religion and integration. The exhibition shows a variety of styles. The visitor can also listen to interviews with girls who are taken in the locker rooms of boxing schools. It is also a film is shown with the boxing biography of multiple world champion Negadi Amina. The comic drawings are created by: Peter Pontiac, Maaike Hearts, Mike Cook, Farida Laan, Sandra de Haan and Cristina Henrike Richarte & Olasolo.
Dance Performance
The stories about kickboksende girls serve as inspiration for a multimedia dance performance. Choreographer Susanne Marx develops a dance where the stories of the girls are depicted in modern dance, classical dance and street dance, mixed with kickboksmoves. The version is danced by Soumia kickbokskampioene Abalhaja, professional performer and dancer Thomas Falk kickboksende and a group of girls from different sources. The decor of the performance, consisting of video projections, is provided by videographer Susanna Brenner, who through personal portraits an authentic story told. Gary Shepherd, DJ Alec Smart, developed with its own Visual sound and tight beats the soundscape for the performance .
In large cities Kickboxing is becoming an increasingly popular sport among girls. Strikingly, many girls with a Moroccan background do Kickboxing and other martial arts. They are proud of their discipline and their bruises. This is contrary to the existing image that many people have about femininity in the Moroccan culture and about Islamic religious rules. Susanne Marx is intrigued by the motivation of the girls of the Kickboxing and is curious as to their identity as a woman, in proportion to their trainer-a man in this case. The man and woman equivalent ...?
Director: Susanne Marx
Choreography: Thomas Falk, Susanne Marx
Dancers: Soumia Abalhaja, Thomas Falk, Caggie Gulum, Wissal Aziz, Avalon Brown, Jane Dielingen, Jessica Leng, Maresha Molenaar, Shireen Noort, Wendy Snijders, Siham Tib, Jacintha Tjon Fo
Assistance: Kirsten Schötteldreier (vocal coach), Mariangela Tinelli, Caggie Gulum
Music and composition: Gary Shepherd, DJ Alec Smart
Video design / Interviews: Susanna Brenner
Costumes: Siham Tib BV
Visagie: Wendy Snijders, Jacintha Tjon Fo
Technicians: Menno Riemersma, Benno Barends, assistent: Norman Tentua
Production: Femke Vos
Photography: Kees Spruijt
Thanks to: Martine Dekker, Liane van der Linden, Alia Azzouzi, Lennert Dietvorst, Iris van Zaalen, Astrid ten Siethoff, Martin Butler, Panthera Gym Sleeuwijk, Spider Gym Rotterdam, Francis Sinceretti, Fleur van Dissel, Peter van der Hoop, Felix Ritter, Hein Drost, Kosmopolis Utrecht: Nancy Jouwe, Imagine IC Amsterdam: Marlous Willemsen, Leyla Çakir en Tugba Özer, LCC t Klooster Rotterdam, Theater Kikker Utrecht, ZID theater en het Bijlmer Parktheater Amsterdam.
Producenten
Kosmopolis Rotterdam: www.kosmopolisrotterdam.nl
Imagine IC: www.imagineic.nl
VET producties Amsterdam: www.susannemarx.nl
Het project Chicks, Kicks & Glory is gebaseerd op onderzoek van Jasmijn Rana aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, in opdracht van Forum Instituut voor Multiculturele Vraagstukken.
Koop het boek: www.imagineic.nl
