A work that explores South Africa’s silenced, almost forgotten, history of slave and migrant labour.
In a world upended by a pandemic, locked down levels and restricted freedoms have become the norm. Fear, anger, anxiety and hopelessness have become overriding emotions.
“Locked Doors, Behind Doors” is a new work directed by award winning choreographer, Sbonakaliso Ndaba, the Artistic Director of Indoni Dance, Arts and Leadership Academy. Together with her dancers, Ndaba explores the stark reality of our current world, where present generations of South Africans have had to live isolated in their homes, many in cramped and crowded conditions in the townships, the hotspots of infections.
After researching our history of lockdowns, they have forged a work that remembers, with respect and compassion, the thousands of South Africa who lived and worked under conditions even more appalling and restricted, as slaves and migrant workers.
The little- known preserved Hostel 33 at the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum will celebrate their 21st anniversary on 1 May - Workers’ Day, to pay homage to and remember these millions of workers that built South Africa.
The creation and performance of
“Locked Doors, Behind Doors” has been developed in partnership with the Goethe-Institut South Africa as part of the Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS).
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