Afrovibes 2012: Inception/My Exile is in my Head
From: Tuesday, 16th October 2012
To: Tuesday, 16 October 2012
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Synopsis
A dance double-bill with a blistering soundtrack - as part of Afrovibes Festival 2012. Inception is an intense physical solo examining the female dance artist's psyche, while My Exile Is In My Head explores solitude and exile, combining traditional and contemporary dance, Hip Hop, Tai Chi, Capoeira, and acrobatics.
Our Review:
17 October 2012
A dance double bill certainly offers striking examples of arts from South Africa but at times struggles to breach the cultural gap.
Inception, the opening part of the bill, feels more like a series of events than a cohesive whole. Choreographer and performer Sonia Radebe gradually emerges from darkness onto the stage to pulsing, throbbing Taj Travellers’ music. Her dance may represent a journey – one that is psychological as much as physical.
At times Radebe’s slow hunched movements suggest she is burdened by a weight or an illness as her limbs twitch in palsy. Alternatively her backwards-scuttling movements make it possible that she might be escaping. Curiously there is no sense of release; although Radebe is shown running towards a goal her fixed grin indicates a degree of anxiety rather than fulfillment. The double bill is of short duration so a lengthy interval that disrupts concentration is hard to justify.
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