Jeremy Nedd & Impilo Mapantsula

Performance

Jeremy Nedd & Impilo Mapantsula CH

The Ecstatic

2 September
19:00 – 20:10
Capitol Theater | Big Stage
Wheelchair Access Impaired mobility
Duration: 70min
Tickets Public Audience
(not for professional visitors & exhibitor attendants)
Area: 82
Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council

The Ecstatic

Choreography: Jeremy Nedd & Impilo Mapantsula

Pantsula, a historically significant South African subculture. Expressed not only as a powerful dance form which is well known for it’s high-speed virtuosic footwork, but also evident through a dress code, language, music, and a particular philosophy of life that is all it’s own. An expression that during Apartheid gave a voice to a whole generation. Praise Break, a mode of praise. A moment... a pause… a break in the context of the Christian Pentecostal Church service, where the dancing body, voice and music energetically coalesce and as a result blur the difference between ecstatic and cathartic. What happens when the aesthetics of these two worlds converge? What happens in this transcendental moment of “break”. Within the dance piece The Ecstatic six Pantsula dancers turn to the motions that lead up to the praise break in order to find out, and “break open” a new space all their own.

Artistic Crew / Team:
CONCET/CHOREOGRAPHY Jeremy Nedd & Impilo Mapantsula | PERFORMANCE/CHOREOGRAPHY Kgotsofalang Moshe Mavundla, Tommy Tee Motsapi, Bonakele Mambotjie Masethi, Sicelo Malume ka Xaba, Sello Zilo Modiga, Vusi 2.2 Mdoyi | TECHNICAL DIRECTION/LIGHT Thomas Giger | STAGE DESIGN Laura Knüsel | MUSIC/COMPOSITION Xzavier Stone & Modulaw | AUDIODESIGN Fabrizio Di Salvo | HEAD OF PRODUCTION SWITZERLAND Ursula Haas | HEAD OF PRODUCTION SOUTH AFRICA Daniela Goeller | PRODUCTION/TOURING Regula Schelling | DRAMATURGY Anta Helena Recke | PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE Kihako Narisawa, Lucas Del Rio Estevez | OUTSIDE EYE Deborah Joyce Holman, Maximilian Hanisch | CO-PRODUCTION Kaserne Basel, Arsenic Lausanne, Theater Tuchlaube Aarau

Co-Producers:
CO-PRODUCTION Kaserne Basel, Arsenic Lausanne, Theater Tuchlaube Aarau

Funders and Supporters:
SUPPORTED BY Fachausschuss Tanz & Theater BS/BL, Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council, Südkulturfonds, Migros Kulturprozent, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung, Jacqueline Spengler-Stiftung, Schweizer Interpretenstiftung, Wilhelm und Ida Hertner-Strasser Stiftung