Turning Point, Mzamo Nondlwana, BRUT, 2024
Queer feminism, comedy and catharsis: For their dance performance 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 on stage.
Turning Point employs absurdity through re-enactment, parody, and outrageous exaggeration as emancipatory survival strategies. Between arrival and departure, thoroughly explored rhythm, and catharsis as a means of liberation from emotional turmoil, classic soap operas and contemporary queer culture become evident as sources of inspiration.
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 and 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)
The project Turning Point was developed during the residency programme in Köttinspektionen Dans, Uppsala.
A co-production by Mzamo Nondlwana / Club Havera and brut Wien.
With the kind support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.