We Wear Our Wheels with Pride Digital Program
A piece by Robyn Orlin
With Moving Into Dance Mophatong dancers: Sunnyboy Motau, Oscar Buthelezi, Afikamabiyase Ziqubu, Lesego Dihemo, Sbusiso Gumede and Teboho Letele
Original score written and performed by Yogin Sullaphen and Anelisa Stuurman (Annalyzer)
Video: Eric Perroys
Costumes: Birgit Neppl
Light: Romain de Lagarde
General Manager: Jean-Marc L’Hostis
Tour Manager: Thabo Pule
Stage Manager: Jordan Azincot
Production : City Theater & Dance Group, MIDM – Moving into Dance Mophatong and Damien Valette Prod
Administration, booking: Damien Valette
Coordination: Bertille Zimmermann
Première June 17, 2021, at the Théâtre National de Chaillot (FR)
Co-production : Festival Montpellier Danse, Tanz im August – 32. Internationales Festival Berlin, Chaillot – Théâtre National de la Danse, Le Grand T- Théâtre de Loire-Atlantique, Charleroi Danse – Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, Théâtre Garonne – Scène européenne, Château-Rouge – scène conventionnée d’Annemasse
With support from DRAC Ile-de-France
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robyn Orlin was born in 1955 in Johannesburg. Known in South Africa as “the permanent irritation,” through her work she reveals the difficult and complex reality of her country. She combines various artistic expressions (text, video, plastic arts…) to explore a certain theatricality that is reflected in her choreographic vocabulary. Her work includes Daddy, I’ve seen this piece six times before and I still don’t know why they’re hurting each other (1999), which won the Laurence Olivier Award for the Most Outstanding Achievement of the Year, and Beauty remained for just a moment then returned gently to her starting position… (2012), the opening performance of the South African season in France in 2013. In April 2018, Robyn Orlin returned to stage Rameau’s Pygmalion, as resident director at the Dijon Opera, in collaboration with Emmanuelle Haïm as the musical conductor. In co-production with the INA and ARTE, she directed her first film Hidden beauties, dirty histories in October 2004. Robyn Orlin was named Knight of the National Order of Merit (Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite) in 2009 and Knight of Arts and Letters (Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) in 2015.
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