DIG 2025 | BUZZCUT Double Thrills: Harald Beharie (Norway) + Pik Kei Wong (Hong Kong)

Part of Tramway's Dance International Glasgow festival, 9 - 24 May

BUZZCUT presents a Double Thrill with Norwegian/Jamaican choreographer Harald Beharie’s award winning solo Batty Bwoy showcased alongside Scotland- based dancer and choreographer Pik Kei Wong’s critically acclaimed work Bird-watching.

Collect your tickets and begin the night at the CCA. After the first performance there will be a short walk to The Vic for the second performance. This is a 1 minute walk up a steep hill, there will be audience support staff who are happy to assist.

Recommended for ages 18+

Audience notes: The performance contains nudity and explores themes of homophobia.

ACCESS - Highly visual 

Harald Beharie's Batty Bwoy doesn’t start with a question or a critique, but from a place of play and desire, entangled with violence and charming cruelty. 

Reappropriating the Jamaican slang for a queer person “Batty Bwoy” (butt boy), it twists and turns the myths of the black queer body, unfolding possibilities in an interplay of consciousness and naivety. Scrutinizing queer monstrosity, Batty Bwoy articulates through the porosity of bodies and languages – their mouths swallowing and regurgitating the corporal fictions projected onto their skins. 

In an odyssey of prog-rock, Batty Bwoy attacks and embraces narratives of the perverse and deviant queer body. The expression "Batty Bwoy" comes to evoke an ambivalent creature at the threshold of the precarious body, liberated power, joy, and batty energy! Drawing from; mythologies, disgusting stereotypes, feelings, fantasies of the queer body and identities, homophobic dancehall lyrics, 70s Giallo films, resilient gully queens, and the queer voices in Norway and Jamaica that have been part of its process.

Fresh from a 5-star triumph at Edinburgh Fringe, Bird-watching, Pik Kei Wong’s mesmerizing solo asks audiences to confront their own perception of the female form. Developed in Hong Kong where she worked in the dance scene before her move to Scotland in 2023, Bird-watching artfully navigates the complex interplay of desire, cultural norms, and female empowerment – transforming discomfort into a profound appreciation of the body’s power and presence.

CREDITS
Batty Bwoy
Choreography/Performance: Harald Beharie Artistic collaborators/sculpture: Karoline Bakken Lund and Veronica Bruce Composer: Ring Van Möbius Sound designer: Jassem Hindi Outside eye: Hooman Sharifi, Inés Belli Producer: Mariana Suikkanen Gomes Distribution: Damien Valette

Supported by: Kulturrådet, Fond for lyd og bilde, FFUK, Sandnes Municipality, Oslo Municipality and TOU.

Bird-watching
Choreographer and Performers: Pik Kei Wong / Composer ：Fiona Le（Premiere）Jasper Fung / Lighting designer： SunFoolLau / Costume designer: Luise Yau / Installation Frame designer: William Muirhead

Image: Harald Beharie performing the solo Batty Bwoy, at Dansens Hus in Oslo, Norway. Photo - Tale Hendnes