Performance

Tiran Willemse: blackmilk (melancholia)

Tiran Willemse (DE/CH/ZA)
blackmilk (melancholia)
[8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series
© Mayra Wallraff

Jul 18 2022 to Jul 20 2022
Vienna
19:00, 21:00
Monday, July 18, 2022 to Wednesday, July 20, 2022
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The ImPulsTanz audience may still remember Tiran Willemse from Trajal Harrell’s celebrated Maggie the Cat at Akademietheater. He now engages in his very own aesthetic in blackmilk (melancholia), the first part of the trompoppies (Afrikaans for drum majorettes in uniform) trilogy. With great sound, disturb­ing theatrical effects and dance that oscillates between virtuosity and despair, the South African artist explores the dissimilarities between African and African­-American male identity, opening a new door in the process: to black male melancholia. Moon river, wider than a mile...

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