Make Banana Cry is a critical and destabilizing dance performance questioning Asian stereotypes and the transmission of cultural identity. The work confronts western perceptions of the ‘Asian Fantasy’ in a durational parade drawing on the background of the diverse cast of Canadian artists.

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As aesthetic embodiments of ‘Asian-ness’ become more predominant in Western art and pop culture, the artists share a desire to reflect on these representations and explode the mechanisms that create these categorisations within today’s appropriative landscape.

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Visual Installation - Dominique Petrin Collaborators / Performers - Ellen Furey, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Dana Michel, Simon Portigal 

Produced in collaboration with - MAI (Montreal, Arts Interculturels)

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‘THE CROWD’S DISCOMFORT IS PALPABLE AND THE MESSAGE IS STRONG: WE ARE CONFRONTED WITH THE SHEER EXHAUSTION THAT COMES FROM A LIFETIME OF CARRYING THE WEIGHT OF FETISHIZATION.’

– DANCE CURRENT

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Fierce Festival Birmingham UK 2019

Nottdance Festival Nottingham UK 2019

Gallerie D'Uqam Montreal 2018

M.A.I Montreal 2017