The Pink Detachment (2015)
20m
Running Time
November 4, 2015Release Date
Plot.
The Pink Detachment is an update of “The Red Detachment of Women” (1964), a Model Opera from China’s Cultural Revolution. Here the protagonists are an accident-prone worker and a ballerina-manager who has the tools to alleviate the worker’s problems. At the center of the piece is the color equation, Red + White = Pink, from which multiple parallel meanings emerge. The first is the old term “pinko,” meaning a watered down Communism, or a liberal with uncommitted Red sympathies. The second is a proposal to solve future crises in meat supply by re-valuating hot dog and sausage production as a solution, by integrating ‘undesirable’ portions of pig with the ‘desirable’ portions, embodying perfect equivalence in consumable form. And the third is pink as femininity – not as a ‘natural’ fleshy softness, but rather a synthetic, engineered (and potentially violent) hybridity.
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Cast & Crew.

Katharine Liu
Accident-Prone Worker

Mayu Oguri
Manager Ballerina

Corey Tazmania
Narrator

Isabelle Zufferey Boulton
Narrator

Eli Condon
Company Dancer

Jasmine Hong
Company Dancer

Nathalie Encarnacion
Company Dancer

Maura Harris
Company Dancer
Details.
Release DateNovember 4, 2015
StatusReleased
Running Time20m
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