GIPCA will host performances by two leading international contemporary dance companies: T42 from Switzerland and EIRA from Portugal. These performances will take place from 11-14 September, and follow on the heels of performances at Jomba! Dance Festival (Durban) and Dance Umbrella (Johannesburg) by both companies.
Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 September
20:00 | UCT Hiddingh Hall | Free admission
T42 | Another Chopsticks Story and Swan
Choreographed and performed by Misato Inoue and Félix Duméril, Another Chopsticks Story takes Madame Butterfly as a point of departure, using the famous opera to examine ideas around orientalism and identity, and false binaries between East, West, male and female; while Inoue’s solo, Swan, explores the physical, aesthetic and kinesthetic representations of innocence, vulnerability and elegance, as inseparable from pain, fear and guilt. “We may say white is the absence of color, as purity has no memory, while black is the saturation of colour as recurrent waves of pain and discreditable secrets. We look deeply into this profound despair, fear guilt and anger and we find a similarity to innocence, such as the infinite field of unfolding possibilities” comments Inoue. Read more
Friday 13 and Saturday 14 September
20:00 | UCT Hiddingh Hall | Free admission
EIRA | Our Lady of Flowers and King in Exile (remake)
Our Lady of Flowers, a solo by Francisco Camacho, shares its title with the Jean Genet novel. Presented in over forty venues in Europe and South America since its première in 1993, the piece employs a choreography of convulsion, obsession, failing physiological systems, and of the collapsing body – a dance of absolute sensual experience. It is an invocation of ghosts, of ridicule and laughter, of sensuality and obscenity. In The King in Exile (remake), Camacho draws inspiration from the figure of Dom Manuel II – the last king of Portugal, known as “the Patriot” or “the Unfortunate,” who ascended the throne after the assassination of his father, King Carlos I and his elder brother, Luís Filipe. This work, originally choreographed in 1991 but recreated in 2013, is an exploration of political power; merging history and autobiography, it also encapsulates Camacho’s ongoing explorations of bodily identity, history and representation.
All performances are free, but space is limited and booking is essential. Please direct all bookings to Roxy.
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