Sizindlebe | We Are Ears 2

As part of The Centre for the Less Good Idea's residency at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain.

From names to musical notation, and textual refrains to free-flowing movement and gesture, Sizindlebe | We Are Ears is an ensemble performance of second translations that, through a series of performative vignettes, deals with the complexity and simultaneity of translation. Sixteen-year-old pitch-perfect pianist Maya Muratoglu collaborates with vocalists and dancers to translate a name into a set of musical notes on the piano. What then emerged as an organic moment of collaboration and play now finds striking resonance on stage as a considered yet free-flowing ensemble work. Here, the simultaneity of translation is given room to be explored and exploded. It is a continual act of translation together with well-choreographed cacophony, veering at times towards entropy, but returning always to rich pockets of complexity and meaning.

Pianist | Maya Muratoglu
Choreographers & Dancers | Thulani Chauke, Betty Tchomanga & Teresa Phuti Mojela
Vocalists | Nhlanhla Mahlangu, Sbusiso Shozi, Anathi Conjwa, Dikeledi Modubu & Asanda Hanabe
Footnoters | Bronwyn Lace & Athena Mazarakis