Review: DARKMATTER makes the “(afro)futuristic and enigmatic body” a galaxy of meaning

The Dance Current

West Coast premiere of DARKMATTER at PuSh Festival, January 2024.

Cherish Menzo emerges on the Vancouver stage with bold, unapologetic choreographic presence in DARKMATTER (2022) presented at PuSh Festival January 29–31. The boundary-pushing work by the Amsterdam/Brussels-based artist is the second of a trilogy, after JEZEBEL (2019) with a third work yet to come – all collaborations between GRIP (a group of European choreographers including Menzo, Femke Gyselinck, Jan Martens and Steven Michel) and Frascati Producties…