BLOODSCENT.

Princess Bangura plays Jennely: a young woman born in the ’90s who bears a secret, and will do anything to keep this hidden. Cuz' ain't nobody got time for that, right? In the musical, visual performance Bloodscent we follow the fever-dream-meets-healing-journey of a young woman who has to confront ‘the predatory beast’ who abused her in order to come to terms with the ‘the prey’ she never wanted to be. Guided by her spiritual ancestors, she opens up to her Santa Yeye and follows the capricious path to real healing: that of Body, Breath, Spirit and Soul. In his second Frascati production, Gavin-Viano shows how traumatic events from someone’s youth continue to echo through an adult life, and how our contemporary western society fails to adequate address this through its rational approach to this pain, which is seated in both the body and the soul. Credits direction & text Gavin-Viano performance Princess Isatu Hassan Bangura, Sharifa Smith, Noël Pinedo, Cèlion Kerk dramaturgy Aukje Verhoog & Maarten van Hinte technical Wouter Versteege sound Tijmen Bergman video art & lightning design Wes Broersen composition Edis Pajazetovic scenography Arinth Foekema.