Jeremy Nedd & Impilo Mapantsula – How a falling star lit up the purple sky…
In “How a falling star lit up the purple sky; A Western Cover a.k.a. a Southern… (working title)” the artists of Impilo Mapantsula and Jeremy Nedd collaborate once more to explore “The Western.” Through the prism of Pantsula’s rich culture we will explore how this cinematic genre’s long list of stereotypical themes and tropes managed to propagate a collective imagination around the concepts of the hero, the other and the land.
By taking a look back historically at what The Western was, fabulating what The Western could have been and speculating what The Western can be, we will reimagine The Western…
The Western as a form… The Western as a limitation. The Western as a potentiality. The Western as an archetype. The old West as a stereotype. The old West as a haunting spectre. The West as a presence. The West as an absence. The South as a landscape. The South as an ecology. The South as a future…
A dynamic visual poem that proposes shifts to the paradigm, rearranges the idea of archetype and hopefully invites a reevaluation of the psychic and terrestrial spaces which “The Western”, “The old West”, “The West” and “The South” occupy.
SHOWS
Kaserne Basel
Wednesday, 24. March 2021, 20:00 Premiere
Thursday, 25. March 2021, 20:00
Friday, 26. March 2021, 20:00
Saturday, 27. March 2021, 20:00
Sunday, 28. March 2021, 19:00
Arsenic Lausanne
Thursday, 22. April 2021, 19:30
Friday, 23. April 2021, 19:30
Saturday, 24. April 2021, 19:30
Sunday, 25. April 2021, 19:30
TEAM
Concept / Choreography
Jeremy Nedd
Performance / Choreography
Sicelo Xaba, Vusi Mdoyi, Sello Modiga, Thomas Motsapi, Bonakele Masethi, Kgotsofalang Moshe, Vuyani Feni, Sibongile Mathebula, Elma Motloenywa
Technic and Light
Thomas Giger
Technical Assistance
Annatina Huwiler
Stage Design
Laura Knüsel
Sound Design
Fabrizio Di Salvo & Rej Deproc aka Jeremy Nedd
Musical Arrangement Consultation
Brandy Butler
Dramaturgy
Anta Helena Recke
Production Management
Regula Schelling, Franziska Schmidt, produktionsDOCK