Choreography and performance Mamela Nyamza Puppet design Jannie Young, Handspring Puppet Company Costume and stage design Mamela Nyamza Music African Songs - National Symphony Orchestra of the South African Broadcasting Corporation, Richard Cock

Mamela Nyamza, born in Cape Town, trained as a dancer and danced in musicals such as LION KING and WE WILL ROCK YOU. In her own, partly autobiographical works she deals with her status as a »different,« as a black dancer, as well as with political and social subjects that have to do with her homeland South Africa. Nyamza also sees herself as a political activist, and she is active in the areas of social work, and dance and movement therapy. Among her most well-known works are HATCH; HATCHED; SHIFT; THE DYING SWAN; and IDOLLS. Mamela Nyamza's projects have been shown internationally and have received subsidies from, among other countries, Senegal; the Republic of Congo; the U.S., Canada; Germany; Slovenia; and Austria.

Production Mamela Nyamza. Thanks to Germaine Acogny and Robyn Orlin
Realisation supported by the Goethe-Institut