we wear our wheels with pride ...
Robyn Orlin
A two-wheeler with colonial tracks
As a child, Robyn Orlin saw black miners dancing for a white audience. Another practice she witnessed during that Apartheid era was every bit as determinant for this South African choreographer’s vision: Zulus transporting rich white folk around in rickshaws. These memories confront us with the darker side of Western mass tourism. With eight young dancers and Rebecca Horn’s Concert for Anarchy – a work for a grand piano suspended upside down from the ceiling – Orlin commemorates a black history.
credits
Robyn Orlin: artistic direction & choreography
Muzi Shili, Sunnyboy Motau, Teboho Letele, Oscar Buthelezi, Eugene Mashiane, Sussera Olyn, Otsile Masemola & Lesego Dihemo (Moving Into Dance Mophatong Company): dance
Eric Perroys: video
Birgit Neppl : costume design
Romain de Lagarde: lighting design
production : City Theater & Dance Group, MIDM, Moving into Dance Mophatong & Damien Valette Prod (Paris)
Robyn Orlin: artistic direction & choreography
Muzi Shili, Sunnyboy Motau, Teboho Letele, Oscar Buthelezi, Eug
partners
In collaboration with Cultuurcentrum Brugge
