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PROGRAM 2025<\/p>\n
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AGENDA<\/p>\n
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Dance, theatre<\/p>\n
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South Africa 2024
Concept & directorship: Tandile Mbatsha
Accessibility: the performance contains fierce sounds and flickering images
Duration: 75 min<\/p>\n
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Rotterdam | Maaspodium
Sat 4 October, 20h00<\/p>\n
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Amsterdam | De Balie
Sun 5 October, 19h00<\/p>\n
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In this powerful theater- en dance performance, Tandile Mbatsha (x) takes us back to their childhood. As children in rural South Africa, they had to search for their identity and how to belong. Tandile Mbatsha stages both the theme of legacy and belonging by involving their biological father and mother in the performance. In one scene, the father shaves Mbatsha’s head before they perform a slippery solo on an oil-soaked floor, while their mother reminds the father how their child grew up in an atmosphere of both homophobia and protection. This makes I AM a powerful statement against transphobia and homophobia in Africa, which are visible through current statements that queerness would be un-African.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe stories of queer people of colour have been erased. I AM is based on real events and thus a reconstruction of those stories,\u201d Mbatsha said. \u201cI AM is my attempt to remember myself through childhood memories.\u201d<\/p>\n
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concept en choreografie Trixie Munyama <\/strong><\/p>\n dans West <\/strong>Uarije <\/strong><\/p>\n curator <\/strong>Jacob Jacks Nashilongwe Sakaria<\/strong><\/p>\n ” content_last_edited=”off|desktop” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#000000″ custom_padding=”0px|25px||25px|false|true” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]Credits PROGRAM 2025 DATES AND TICKETSAGENDA DAY BY DAYDance, theatreI AMSouth Africa 2024Concept & directorship: Tandile MbatshaAccessibility: the performance contains fierce sounds and flickering imagesDuration: 75 minRotterdam | MaaspodiumSat 4 October, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-256494","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.wp-testen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.wp-testen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.wp-testen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.wp-testen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.wp-testen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256494"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cms.wp-testen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257244,"href":"https:\/\/cms.wp-testen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256494\/revisions\/257244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.wp-testen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nConcept & regie: Tandile Mbatsha
\nPerformer: Tandile Mbatsha
\nVideografie & techniek: Thomas Willows
\nMuziek: Tavern Kween van Desire
\nKostuumontwerp: Neo Serati van NaoSerati[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"