Dance performance by Mamela Nyamza.
Date: Mon 25th June
Venue: Piesang Valley Hall
Time: 19h00
Tickets: R100.00 – Includes entry to Mamela’s Dance Workshop
Ages: No under 16
About De-Apart-Hate
In De-Apart-Hate, Nyamza, with Aphiwe Livi, confronts prejudice in a multi-layered piece that reflects the complexities of current issues in society and the world. She says it is not overtly about apartheid or about race, but more about power structures.
Dressed in church attire Nyamza and Livi lead the audience through the celebration and struggle that is marriage. As they try to find a balance on a rainbow bench that seesaws between them, they shift, shuffle and re-adjust yet never quite seem to find comfort. Silence hangs heavy over their shoulders.
Religion guides them and tricks them and deceives them into momentary happiness and momentary truth, only to disappear again. Nyamza battles and fights the systems, the faculties, the theatre and life. One cannot call this story beautiful or sad. One can only observe the honesty which Nyamza and Livi portray their roles.
“My work is about unsteadiness and anxiety. It’s about shifting, shuffling, re-adjusting discomforts as well as personal and collective battles against intolerant systems.
My work embodies not only defiance but dismantling and detonating all those institutional myths and fallacies that keep people apart.”
