Quiet Emergency: A new collaborative work

Creating the future out of the present.

Created By:

Anthea Moys, Gilbert Douglas & Margie Mackay

When:

Sat 13 at 10h45
Mon 15, Wed 17 and Fri 19 at 12h30 & 16h30
Tues 16 and Thurs 18 at 10h30 & 13h30
Sat 20 at 10h45

Production Manager:

Jon Keevy

Location:

Thibault Square

Duration:

30 Mins

Performers:

iKapa Dancers:

Gumboot Dancers:
Mcebisi Tshambula
Bongiwe Bimba
Portia Lonake
Noluthando Sompeta
Mayibongwe Moon
Luthando Tshaya

Performers:

Kim Kerfoot
Cassandra Hendriks
Hayley Roberts
Thokelo Maka
Mambwe Chuba
Aviwe Tonci
Thembelani Ngqulana

Opera Singer:
Noluthando Hermanus

Lwandle Community Performers:
Organised by Lunga Smile at the Lwandle Museum of Migrant Labour, Sinebhongo consists of the following groups:

Silukamva Academia

Rise & Shine Academy
Kuyakhanya Drama Group
Inja Ziyavova Performance group

Cape Town: a patchwork map of dislocation, where communities are separated by history and inequality, isolated by high walls and indifference. Every community has its boundaries, each interaction its limitations … we live in a state of quiet emergency.

A weeklong experiment, Quiet Emergency blurs the grid of this rigid map and creates a halfway meeting space. Incorporating the marginalised people of our City – street children, sex workers, security guards, street cleaners – and professional performers, this interactive ritual honours that which unites us as human beings, that which gives us connection, hope and continuity.

The following generous funding was provided for the participation of these artists in the ITC residency by:

Pro Helvetia and Art Moves Africa – Gilbert Douglas.
The Victorian Government through Arts Victoria – Margie Mackay.

Dancers kindly provided by:

Sign language translation by Marsanne Selzer

Puppet designed and built by Jason Potgieter and Beren Belknap at UNIMA

Puppeteers: Lusanda Kutta and Sandile Qagana

Anthea Moys

Anthea Moys is an artist who uses performance and video to explore notions of play, the pathetic and the 'useless'. Anthea’s happenings seem to challenge the conventional sturm und drang seriousness of much other performance art. She is interested in how ‘play’ more readily implicates and involves the audience; invoking a three-way dialogue between herself, her audience and t read more...

Gilbert Douglas

Gilbert Douglas is a founder member of the Tumbuka Dance Company for modern dance. Founded in Harare in 1992, Tumbuka has toured throughout Zimbabwe and internationally to Senegal, France, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Germany , Angola, South America, Belgium, and Denmark. Cecchetti trained, Gilbert has also trained in modern and contemporary dance forms as well as classical read more...

Margie Mackay

Margie Mackay is a Melbourne-based Director, Designer and Performer working in the fields of performance art, visual and ritual theatre. A graduate of The Victorian College of the Arts with a Masters in Theatre Design, and a B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Melbourne, Margie graduated from the John Bolton Theatre School in its inaugural year (1991), and has just embarked on a PhD read more...