Mélanie Cerezo Gobet presents a powerful performance exploring the overlooked stories of Filipino domestic workers, navigating themes of heritage, domination and the construction of the body.
The Filipino-Fribourg artist Mélanie Cerezo Gobet pursues an intimate exploration of her inherited Asian identity by confronting her mother’s migration story, having been sent abroad like thousands of Filipinas to work as a ‘maid’ in the service of wealthy families.
Through repetitive gestures, forced smiles and monstrous figures drawn from Filipino folklore, T’es bonne ! questions the colonial-era imaginaries that shape certain destinies. On stage, three performers and a live musician traverse a shifting space where bodies oscillate between assignment, function and transformation.
by Mélanie Cerezo Gobet
Cast
Concept and choreography Mélanie Cerezo Gobet
Performance Larissa de villa, Kathrin Knöpfle, Mélanie Cerezo Gobet
Sound and live performance Annie Aries
Scenography and costumes Yi-Ju Chou
Assistance Jade Albasini
Dramaturgy and scientific collaboration Natasha Stegmann
Outside eyes Rebecca Weingartner, Yann Hermenjat, Maude Bovey, Valerian Maly
Light design Mario Torchio
Sound Frank Bongni
Light and sound technique Luc Perrenoud
Production and diffusion Maxine Devaud / oh la la - performing arts production
Coproduction Équilibre-Nuithonie - Fribourg
Supports État de Fribourg, Loterie Romande, Agglomération Fribourg, Fondation Ernst Göhner, Fondation suisse des artistes interprètes SIS, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler