For Turning Point, Mzamo Nondlwana invites dancer Evandro Pedroni, sound artist Lens Kühleitner, and video artist Maanila Santos de Moraes to share their queer-feminist takes on personal experiences of arrival and leaving. Inspired by Black writer/activist Audre Lorde (1934–1992) and her studies on the creative power of eroticism, this dance performance employs various means of expression as tools, thus creating entanglements of migrant realities, memories, and visions.
United by marginalised life experiences, Turning Point embraces the absurd by re-enactment, parody, and exaggeration as strategies of emancipation and survival. Between appearing and disappearing, the performance presents its thoroughly explored rhythm in cathartic processes as a means of liberation from emotional turmoil, thus vividly showing how deeply it is rooted in both soap operas from the Global South and contemporary queer culture. Together with the performers, the audience will feel the abundance of such manifestations, the drama of it all, the titular turning point.
Credits
Concept and choreography
Mzamo Nondlwana
Dance and Creation
Evandro Pedroni
Sound Design & Live Sound
Lens Kühleitner Scenography
Video
Maanila Santos de Moraes
Costume, Make-up & Graphic Design
Isabelle Edi
Costume Design Assistant
Gabriel Moncayo Asan
Dramaturgy
Sunanda Mesquita
Dance Dramaturgy
Elizabeth Ward
Lighting Design
Yasemin Duru
Video Documentation & Trailer
Susana Ojeda
Production Club Havera (Sheri Avraham)