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She worked with a variety of choreographers, visual and theater artists, particularly Robyn Orlin, with whom she created works such as Keep the Home Fires Burning, Down Scaling Down, Life after the credits roll, and Daddy I’ve seen this piece six times before and I still don’t know why they’re hurting each other, which toured for several years in Europe and Asia, winning the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance.
À son retour en Afrique du Sud en 1997, Nelisiwe Xaba rejoint la Pact Dance Company, avant de se lancer dans une carrière en indépendante, qui lui permettra de travailler avec de nombreux(-ses) chorégraphes reconnu(e)s, dont Robyn Orlin.
Depuis le lancement de sa carrière solo, Xaba a travaillé à divers projets multimédias et collaboré avec des artistes plasticiens, des stylistes, des directeurs de théâtre et de télévision, des poètes et des musiciens.
In some of my previous work I was looking at power dynamics in politics of display, who displays whom and where and to whom.
In collaboration with The Met Museum, I will be in New York for inspiration, to discover, research, meet artists and possible collaborators, more specifically from the African diaspora. In 2017, I created Bang Bang Wo, a solo performance that interrogates the politics of “help”.
In 2016, I created Urban Mermaid for the 50th anniversary of the Goodman Gallery, and also performed the piece at the Berliner Festspiele. Xaba is currently represented by the Goodman Gallery in South Africa.
Nelisiwe Xaba
XABA, Nelisiwe (1972- ).
Ms. Xaba has also collaborated as choreographer and dancer with fashion designers, opera productions, music videos, television productions, and multimedia performance projects.[1]
Before launching my solo career, I worked with Pact Dance Company and Free Flight Dance Company, South Africa. La même année, elle crée The Venus, en combinant deux de ses précédentes pièces solos, They Look At Me et Sakhozi says non to the Venus, commandée à l’origine par le Musée du Quai Branly (Paris, France).
Her body of work is politically driven and challenges stereotypes of the black female body and cultural notions of gender mainstreams. South African dancer and choreographer (also called Neli Xaba).
Nelisiwe Xaba
Dancer and choreographer
April 2023
“In some of my previous work I was looking at power dynamics in politics of display, who displays whom and where and to whom.”
As part of Albertine Dance Season 2023
I began my career as a dancer and choreographer almost thirty years ago in Johannesburg.
Nelisiwe Xaba was born and raised in Soweto (South Africa), and received a scholarship to study at the Johannesburg Dance Foundation (JDF). Fake News encourages both the audience and participates to consider and question the idea of perceived truth. Le travail de Xaba est largement influencé par ses positions féministes et antiracistes, qui remettent en question les stéréotypes sur le corps de la femme noire et les notions courantes liées au genre.
Pour la deuxième pièce, inspirée de l’histoire de la Vénus hottentote (Sara Baartman), Xaba a travaillé avec le styliste Carlo Gibson (dit « Strangelove »). Since then, I have been involved in various multi-media projects, collaborating with choreographers, fashion designers, poets and other different forms of artists. In 2001, Ms. Xaba began to focus on her own choreographic voice, creating solo and group dance works that have been performed in Africa and Europe, including Dazed and Confused, No Strings Attached 1, No Strings Attached 2, Be My Wife(BMW) (commissioned by the Soweto Dance Project), and Black!..
For this purpose, I will focus on the art and architecture of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Met Museum that houses the art of the people of sub-Saharan Africa, the Pacific Islands, and North, Central, and South America. Xaba travaille actuellement à une nouvelle pièce, Scars & Cigarettes, dans laquelle elle continue d’explorer la socialisation des hommes et des femmes à travers des rôles genrés spécifiques dans la société, se concentrant cette fois sur différents rites de passage ou rituels propres aux hommes, comme la circoncision.
En 2013, Xaba a été sélectionnée pour présenter The Venus au pavillon sud-africain de la 55è Biennale de Venise (Italie).
"UNCLES & ANGELS" A FILM
In Collaboration with Mocke J Van Veuren
Nelisiwe Xaba: Choreography and performance
Mocke J van Veuren: Video projection, cinematography and editing
João Orecchia: Music
Originally stereoscopic projection, displayed in 2D for this event
(c) Nelisiwe Xaba and Mocke J van Veuren 2013
Courtesy of Goodman gallery Johannesburg and Cape Town
Gallery: goodman-gallery.com/nelisiwexaba.
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TAMAR DRESDNER ART PROJECTS
www.tamardresdnerartprojects.com
Nelisiwe Xaba was born and raised in Soweto and is currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
I created a sound installation, Nzinga, for the 2020 Virtual National Arts Festival in Makhanda. She collaborates with artists in and outside of her medium, most notably, with fashion designer Carlo Gibson of Strangelove, choreographer Kettly Noel, film director Mocke J van Vueren, Swiss choreographer Marie-Caroline Hominal.