ONE HOUR WITH ROBYN
Robyn Orlin
Date
20 March 2019
Location
Nave 11. Sala Fernando Arrabal
Price
3 euros
Format
Institution
Naves Matadero
During the hour that the performance lasts, the audience will experience at first-hand how the South African choreographer works on her pieces, while at the same time, it is recorded as a film. Robyn Orlin will pour her heart and soul into these 60 minutes to evoke her favourite topics, with her unique humour and her own personal touch: the history of her country and its continent, identity, memory and life.
Since the beginning of the 1990s, her dance has specifically reflected the scars of that homeland, whether that be apartheid, colonialism, AIDS or poverty. These issues permeate her theatrical choreography and are in direct contact with reality.
Attendees become part of the performance, which has already been staged in such places as the Philharmonie de Paris and Gaîté Lyrique.
ROBYN ORLIN
The leading South African dancer and choreographer Robyn Orlin is known in her country because of the ongoing provocation her works cause. Winner of the French government’s highest award for merit in the arts, for the past thirty years she has been transforming the boundaries between performative art and dance. She portrays the difficult and complex reality of South Africa through her eclectic work, drawing on disciplines such as video, the plastic arts and text. In each project she seeks ways to include the community and the public. Her starting point for each new production is her immediate surroundings, which act as a springboard to explore issues related to culture, history and identity. In her works, the audience is often on stage during the performance while the artists mingle among the audience. Robyn Orlin would like everyone to be a dancer.
In Naves Matadero, she will showcase her audiovisual installation about the project she carried out with museum security staff, called Babysitting Series. She will give a performance/lecture entitled One Hour with Robyn and she will stage her work about freedom And so you see... our honourable blue sky and ever enduring sun... can only be consumed slice by slice... which features an amazing performance by Albert Khoza.
Attendees become part of the performance, which has already been staged in such places as the Philharmonie de Paris and Gaîté Lyrique.
ROBYN ORLIN
The leading South African dancer and choreographer Robyn Orlin is known in her country because of the ongoing provocation her works cause. Winner of the French government’s highest award for merit in the arts, for the past thirty years she has been transforming the boundaries between performative art and dance. She portrays the difficult and complex reality of South Africa through her eclectic work, drawing on disciplines such as video, the plastic arts and text. In each project she seeks ways to include the community and the public. Her starting point for each new production is her immediate surroundings, which act as a springboard to explore issues related to culture, history and identity. In her works, the audience is often on stage during the performance while the artists mingle among the audience. Robyn Orlin would like everyone to be a dancer.
In Naves Matadero, she will showcase her audiovisual installation about the project she carried out with museum security staff, called Babysitting Series. She will give a performance/lecture entitled One Hour with Robyn and she will stage her work about freedom And so you see... our honourable blue sky and ever enduring sun... can only be consumed slice by slice... which features an amazing performance by Albert Khoza.
Artistic team and specifications
- Idioma
- English with Spanish translation