Wonton Girls (SI): Drumroll Majorettes
Wonton Girls : Drumroll Majorettes
The project is a street performance blending the traditional style of drum-roll majorettes with contemporary social commentary. Featuring women marching, chanting, and baton twirling, it serves as a playground for thinking about modern issues like control, conformity, resistance, and group dynamics, highlighting the irony of hyper-feminine performances rooted in militaristic drills.
Produced by the Wonton Girls, known for using popular stage forms (cabaret, burlesque, sketch comedy), the piece combines synchronized choreography with dance moves taken from different genres like vogueing and popping and includes elements of physical theatre, clowning and other stage disciplines. Performers resemble a mix of soldiers, security guards, cheerleaders, chorus girls and fighting gangs incorporating robotic, non-human, doll-like qualities. Some movements are inspired by North Korea’s Pyonyang traffic ladies and the soundtrack includes commands, whistles, chants and drums.
Wonton Mažoritke
Projekt je ulična predstava, ki združuje tradicionalni slog bobnarskih mažoretek s sodobnim družbenim komentarjem. Z ženskami, ki korakajo, skandirajo in vrtijo palice, služi kot igrišče za razmišljanje o sodobnih vprašanjih, kot so nadzor, konformizem, odpor in skupinska dinamika, ter poudarja ironijo hiper-ženskih predstav, ki temeljijo na militarističnih vajah.
Predstava, ki so jo producirala dekleta Wonton, znana po uporabi priljubljenih odrskih oblik (kabaret, burleska, skeč komedija), združuje sinhronizirano koreografijo s plesnimi gibi iz različnih žanrov, kot sta vogue in popping, ter vključuje elemente fizičnega gledališča, klovnovstva in drugih odrskih disciplin. Izvajalci spominjajo na mešanico vojakov, varnostnikov, navijačic, zboristk in bojnih tolp, pri čemer vključujejo robotske, nečloveške, lutkam podobne lastnosti. Nekateri gibi so navdihnjeni s prometnimi ženskami iz Severne Koreje v Pjongjangu, zvočni posnetek pa vključuje ukaze, žvižge, skandiranje in bobne.