Cherish Menzo (Brussels/Amsterdam) is one of the four artistic leaders of the dance organization GRIP. Menzo has appeared in the work of Lisbeth Gruwez, Jan Martens, Nicole Beutler, Eszter Salamon, Benjamin Kahn, Akram Khan and others. Her powerful movement language comes into its own in her own work, which tours internationally. Cherish Menzo seeks out forms of movement and being, while placing beauty and the grotesque on an equal footing. She consciously seeks out an alienating effect to guide both the viewer and herself away from the known. Away from the familiar that we sometimes too easily equate with »the (only) truth«. Menzo floats between the nostalgia of 90s and 00s hip-hop and the realms of industrial hip-hop, rap lyrics, manga and speculative fiction. She created JEZEBEL (’19) and D̶A̶R̶K̶MATTER (‘22) with GRIP and Frascati Producties, both productions were selected for both the Theaterfestival in Flanders and its Dutch counterpart.