Robyn Orlin, Garage Dance Ensemble, uKhoiKhoi
…How in salts desert is it possible to blossom...
novembernov 28 - 30
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Thursday november 28
20h30
Friday november 29
19h30
Saturday november 30
17h00
A project by Robyn Orlin with Garage Dance Ensemble and uKhoiKhoi. With five performers from the Garage Dance Ensemble, Byron Klassen, Faroll Coetzee, Crystal Finck, Esmé Marthinus, Georgia Julies. Original music and live performance uKhoiKhoi with Yogin Sullaphen and Anelisa Stuurman. Costumes Birgit Neppl. Technical director Thabo Walter. Video Eric Perroys. Lighting design Vito Walter. Garage Dance Ensemble Alfred Hinkel (founder), John Linden (artistic director), Byron Klassen (resident choreographer), Nicolette Moses (production). Administration and booking Damien Valette. Tour production and logistics Camille Aumont.
Production City Theater & Dance Group ; Damien Valette Prod
Coproduction City Theater & Dance Group, Festival Montpellier Danse 2024 ; Festival de Marseille ; Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse ; Théâtre Garonne – Scène européenne
With the support of the Drac Île-de-France – ministère de la Culture
With the support of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
With the generous support of Aline Foriel-Destezet
Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse and the Festival d’Automne à Paris present this show as a co-realisation.
With the support of
This piece is the fruit of the first encounter between Robyn Orlin and the iconic South African company Garage Dance Ensemble. The latter practices dance theatre which is committed to equality and social justice. In the company of performers from the Northern Cape region, she brings us a no-holds-barred performance that questions the origins of social violence.
After several visionary collaborations with the Johannesburg company Moving into dance Mophatong, this prodcution sees Robyn Orlin, who divides her life between Berlin and her native country, going to Okiep, halfway between Cape Town and the border with Namibia. It is there that John Linden and Alfred Hinkel, two native South Africans and pioneers of dance, founded their company. In a region exploited by European colonizers for its copper, minerals and semi-precious stones, the company dedicates its creations to the idea of social and racial justice. Robyn Orlin, who has always viewed live performance as a lever for social and cultural emancipation, was instantly drawn to this area. By means of a performance-based installation, and in the company of the Garage Dance Ensemble performers she questions social, physical, economic and sexual violence in today's world, while examining their links with colonial exploitation at the same time. The objective is to set in motion a healing process that spans time and continents.
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