The Pink Detachment
(2015)

Released: 2015-11-04

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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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Katharine Liu

as Accident-Prone Worker

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Mayu Oguri

as Manager Ballerina

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Eli Condon

as Company Dancer

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Jasmine Hong

as Company Dancer

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Nathalie Encarnacion

as Company Dancer

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Maura Harris

as Company Dancer

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Sorcha Fatooh

as Company Dancer

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Jen Liu

Director

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Maria Rusche

Director of Photography

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