DESCRIPTION:
Lina Lapelyte
Candy Shop - the Circus
performance
2013 - ongoing

Performed by: Nouria Bah / Anat Ben David / Sharon Gal / Heidi Heidelberg / Rebecca La Horrox / Lina Lapelyte
Video: Federico Strate Pezdirc


Candy Shop is best known as a dirty rap hit by 50 Cent.

Candy Shop - the Circus is a performance reworking the games of power that are embedded in the rap songs into lullabies, narrating the story about beauty, gender and the mundane.

Candy Shop - the Circus is an opera for 7 female performers, men choir, female drummer, a marching band, a combination of hip-hop texts, electronics and video that invites for a collective meditation on power hierarchies.

‘It's a performance that at once makes me feel both slightly queasy and moved, something that rarely happens.’ Luke Turner, Quietus