Chombotrope

Through a surreal, raucous fashion concert that blinds and purifies us, the African-European collective attempts to rethink the heritage of cultural appropriation. In a playfully subversive change of perspective, “Chombotrope” connects elements of voguing and contemporary dance with beatboxing, rap, drums and turntables. This creates a mix of futurist identities with an unusual, stirring and captivating dance vocabulary. With a pointed and personal practise of self-empowerment, the collective produces a wormhole between two continents: Tradition and cultural loot are combined, twisted and focussed, allowing for new narratives to emerge. Menacingly and with a confusing lack of identifiable origins, the performance interweaves animism with science-fiction and the spiritual with technology.