Lorin Sookool

Woza Wenties!

Choreography: Lorin Sookool

With the semi-autobiographical production Woza Wenties!, Lorin Sookool traces and unpacks the violent erasure of Sookool’s African identity during schooling in South Africa. The piece references codes of conducts of the schooling system, church rituals and classical dance classes which may be described as agents of the colonial project. Through the performance, Lorin Sookool examines the complex and nuanced condition of “colouredness”, a specific experience of blackness within the South African socio-historical, political and cultural context. Interpreting the dancing body as a previously colonised state, the choreographer references colonial and modernist systems of dance techniques and uses improvisation as a means to decolonise the body.

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