Teboho Moja on We Wear Our Wheels with Pride
Our performance traditions, and our collective memory carry stories that are still moving, still unsettled, and still deeply alive.
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Recommended readings to get you in gear for the show.
Sarahleigh Castelyn. Contemporary Dance in South Africa: The Toyi-Toying Body (2022).
Peter Cox. Moving People: Sustainable Transport Development (2010).
Hlonipha Mokoena. The Nightwatchman: Representing Black Men in Colonial South Africa (2025).
Thula Simpson. History of South Africa: 1902 to the Present (2002).
Sabine Sorgel. Contemporary African Dance Theatre: Phenomenology, Whiteness, and the Gaze (2020).
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Strand Magazine | March 14, 2025
Robyn Orlin on Choreography About the Apartheid
“We need to look at it so that we don’t let it happen again.”
Flo London | March 9, 2025
IN CONVERSATION WITH Robyn Orlin
“When I was very young one of my first dance encounters was the rickshaws. I was 5 or 6 years old on holiday with my family in Durban and I remember seeing these flying angels in the streets.”
Theater Spektakel | 2023
Interview with Robyn Orlin
“In the late eighties, I discovered and was inspired by a book by the Senegalese dancer and choreographer, Germaine Acogny (the mother of dance in Africa).”
People of Theatre | 2025
An interview with choreographer Robyn Orlin
Rickshaw pullers, known in Zulu as “Hashishi” (meaning “horse”), have a complex and often painful history.