Mzamo Nondlwana – Dance for the Future

Mzamo Nondlwana dances towards the future! This solo performance in collaboration with sound artist Bassano Bonelli imagines an alternative future, rooted in radical queer-feminist movements – a future that denounces white supremacy values that are embedded in domination and destruction. Dance for the Future taps into the collective consciousness, sharing experiences during a pandemic while reinforcing the power of community as a form of healing. It is research on a dance for the future and “… a space where supernatural, fantastical, historical, and futuristic elements merge together.” (Mark Dery, American author, lecturer and cultural critic)

Dance for the Future is shaped by themes of collectivity, grief, and transformation using notions that have been crafted by marginalised communities, especially Black, queer-feminist, migrant communities, the global south and alternative movements which have disclosed and fought against heteronormative structures. This dance is dedicated to a better future!
INFO: The Performance on March 19th will be followed by an artist talk.

Mzamo Nondlwana is a queer, non-binary performing artist originally from Johannesburg, South Africa. Their work focuses on marginalised bodies and an attempt to subvert colonial fantasy. In 2006, they completed their dance education at MID (South Africa) and in 2014 SEAD (Austria). They worked with Michikazu Matsune, Doris Uhlich, Magdalena Chowaniec, Needcompany and Michael Turinsky. They are also one half of Bicha Boo Collective, an audio-visual performative collective active since 2017.

Bassano Bonelli Bassano is a multimedia artist living in Vienna, from Italy and France. Bassano's work combines performance and installation-based practice in recording and listening to sounds and voices. Using intangible volumes of space, Bassano creates constellations of sounds moving between intimate narratives and collectivity. Bassano also focuses on sound creation in collaboration with and for performers, dancers, and video artists such as Mzamo Nondlwana, Stefanie Sourial, Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski, and many more.