Monday, 11/4/2024
at 6:00 PM


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This double evening is an investigation and confrontation with the Black diaspora. It tells of constructions of Blackness and Whiteness and the need to oscillate between both. South African dancer, performer, and author kemelo nozipho sehlapelo presents two pieces as part of her final project for her Master's program in Choreography and Performance in Gießen, creating a resonant space.

"Coconut" centers on the experiences of diaspora and diasporic dances. Starting from the individual body archives of the performers, different experiences of being Afro collide in dances, texts, and songs, creating a hybrid world. In this hybridity, a kind of Afro-surrealism emerges, turning the performance into an attempt to reconcile the past with the present.

In "the new white aesthetic," images of canonical marble statues are recreated. As an embodiment of a shattered ballet, the bodies traverse the space. By moving from image to image, they dance an erased polychromatic history that embodies the decay of the empire and the new white aesthetic.

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