BLUE NILE TO THE GALAXY
AROUND OLODUMARE
2024
Jeremy Nedd | Impilo Mapantsula
Kunstenfestivaldesarts | Kaaitheater | Le Jacques Franck
Concept/Choreography: Jeremy Nedd
Performance/Choreography: Sicelo Xaba | Sello Modiga | Thomas Motsapi | Bonakele Masethi | Sibongile Mathebula
Technical management/Light: Thomas Giger
Stage: Laura Knüsel
Sound design: Fabrizio Di Salvo | Rej Deproc
Costume: Tara Mabiala
Dramaturgy: Anta Helena Recke
Production Management: Caroline Froelich (Moin Moin Productions)
Coproduction: Kunstenfestivaldesarts | Tangente St Pölten |
ARSENIC - Centre d’art scénique contemporain | Kampnagel International Summer Festival | Kaserne Basel | SPIELART Theaterfestival
«Blue nile to the galaxy around olodumare» focuses on the improvisational potential of Pantsula’s movement vocabulary in response to the cosmic and spiritual jazz of Alice Coltrane and Bheki Mseleku, the performance draws on phenomena found in the cosmos as metaphoric inspiration: from the birth of a galaxy to the death of a star. Connecting the powerful and lyrical jive style of today’s Pantsula while echoing «past» struggles against oppression, the performers contemplate the compression of space and time, and our illusions of progress towards the future.