Filipino-Fribourg artist Mélanie Cerezo Gobet has decided to examine her inherited Asian identity. To do so, she followed in the footsteps of her mother, who, like thousands of Filipinas, was educated and sent abroad to work as a domestic for wealthy families. Through performance and dance, T’es bonne ! explores the discrimination, trauma and violence suffered by these women against a backdrop of racism and colonialism. On stage, three performers retrace the little-known destiny of this migrant community who left everything behind in the hope of a better future. An intimate and restorative search for identity, which sensitively questions the issues and challenges linked to assimilation, integration and acculturation.
by Mélanie Cerezo Gobet
Cast
Concept and choreography Mélanie Cerezo Gobet
Music Annie Aries
Performance Mélanie Cerezo Gobet, Larissa De villa, Kathrin Knöpfle
Artistic collaboration Rebecca Weingartner
Scientific collaboration Natasha Stegmann
Scenography Yi-Ju Chou
Lights Mario Torchio
Sound Frank Bongni
Production and diffusion Maxine Devaud / oh la la - performing arts production
Coproduction Équilibre-Nuithonie - Fribourg
Supports État de Fribourg, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS