We must eat our suckers with the wrapper on... Variation #1
2023 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Orlin, Robyn (South Africa)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
We must eat our suckers with the wrapper on... Variation #1
2023 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Orlin, Robyn (South Africa)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
We must eat our suckers with the wrapper on... Variation #1
22 years ago, Robyn Orlin created her iconic piece with the dancers of the Market Theatre Laboratory which engaged with educational campaigns about condom use broadcasted in South Africa that later became internationally famous. The piece combines hope and dark humor in an atmosphere that is laden with a sense of gravitas – it is about AIDS – but also a fierce desire to live and breathtaking sensuality. Dancers are filmed from a high-angle shot with a suspended camera and the images are shown on a screen at the back of the stage in a back-and-forth movement which oscillates between trance and suffering, with moments of silence which interrupt the physical percussions. It is a powerful group piece whose message is “the struggle isn’t over!”. How has that struggle been taken on today? In this new piece co-created with Mosie Mamaregane, a young dancer from the Lab, Orlin revisits her iconic piece in a symphony of red objects, as this avatar of the original piece examines what has and hasn’t changed in the past two decades.
Source: programme of the CND
Orlin, Robyn
Robyn Orlin was born in 1955 in Johannesburg and obtained bursaries to study in London (London Contemporary Dance School) and then in Chicago (School of Art Institute).
Since her first performance in Johannesburg in 1980, she has attempted to redefine choreography and the art of theatre in her country and has become one of the most committed anti-apartheid choreographers. She starts from the principle that “dance is political”, and in her pieces she examines the social and cultural situation in South Africa: its influences, its history, its rifts and its disintegration. The choreography then creates “an iconoclastic dance which puts its foot in it”, a dance-chronicle of today's South African society, skilfully handling irony and derision; a dance that shamelessly stirs up references and identities, blending traditional popular culture with the radical avant-garde, a dance that is capable of breaking down the artist-audience barrier by putting the audience at the centre of the event.
Robyn Orlin came to France for the first time in April 2000 at the invitation of La Filature Scène Nationale, Mulhouse, with “Daddy, I've seen this piece six times before...”
She achieved immediate recognition: Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Montpellier Dance Festival, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, followed by tours all over the world.
In 2004, Robyn Orlin took part in the inauguration of the Centre National de la Danse, Pantin and composed a solo for Sophiatou Kossoko as part of “Vif du Sujet”.
In 2005 she created “When I take off my skin and touch the sky with my nose, only then I can see little voices amuse themselves...”, a piece with 6 singers from the South African Opera, then, during the summer, “Hey dude... i have talent... i'm just waiting for god...,” a solo for the dancer-choreographer Vera Mantero.
From September 2005 Robyn Orlin was in residency for two years at the Centre National de la Danse, Pantin. In April 2007 her “L'Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato” was premièred at the Paris National Opera.
Source :
Digital resource - Médiathèque du Centre national de la danse
http://mediatheque.cnd.fr/spip.php?page=mediatheque-numerique-ressource&id=PHO00003887
More information : robynorlin.com
Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).
We must eat our suckers with the wrapper on... Variation #1
Artistic direction / Conception : Robyn Orlin
Choreography : Robyn Orlin
Interpretation : Mosie Mamaregane
Costumes : Robyn Orlin
Production / Coproduction of the video work : Enregistré au CND le 24 mars 2023
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