Happy days / Jonas Frey - Doisri

1 rue de Bourgogne, 67100 Strasbourg

With Doisri, the choreographer Jonas Frey presents a visceral and intimate solo that unfolds at the intersection between personal memory and collective history. Drawing on the fragmentary memories of Frey’s father’s childhood in a detention camp in Suriname, Doisri transforms biography into a living, moving landscape of gesture, sound and speech. The title comes from Doisri, a word in sranan tongo meaning “German.” More than a simple descriptor, it was a marker of identity, otherness and power in a space shaped by colonial structures. The piece s…