Loaded issues on light feet
LOADED issues on light feet - that is what the dance doublebill I Stand Corrected/Hatched will be about when it plays next week, with South African dancer/performer Mamela Nyamza and British writer/performer Mojisola Adebayo taking to the stage.
Both artists see art - one using dance, the other using text - as a way to raise issues and awareness, which led to their recent collaboration about very pressing and present issues of corrective rape, racism, rape, child abuse, poverty, patriarchy, tradition and homophobia.
All these issues have been experienced and enveloped in Nyamza's life as a single divorced mother and lesbian in South Africa. "My work is fundamentally informed by my life experiences as a black South African (female) artist, as a divorced single mother, and indeed, by my personal identity as a lesbian woman," she explains.
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