As part of the Faits d’Hiver festival, the Générateur welcomes OH !, the new creation by Biño Sauitzvy, from the collectif des yeux.
Between admiration, surprise, pain and pleasure, the performance OH!” is inspired by a photo of the mythical founders of butoh, Kazuo Ohno and Tatsumi Hijikata. Here, Brazilian multidisciplinary artists Biño Sauitzvy and Nando Messias imagine their encounter, that of a transvestite and a man.
A cross between performance, dance, theater and butoh, OH!” asks the question of gender and a society that still struggles to accept difference and minorities.
Biño Sauitzvy draws on butoh, whose refusal of gender and boundaries is one of its origins. An artistic movement that resonates with the artists’ practice, inspired by counter-culture and based on the Brazilian “Movimento Antropofagico”. This creation brings together the collective’s favorite themes: the queer universe, postporn, violence, solitude, love, pop culture…