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Englisch mit deutschen Übertiteln15.- / 25.- / 35.-
The bizarre, dazzling and political performance by Bern-based South African artist Ntando Cele confronts us with the human catastrophes of fast fashion and a Western feel-good ecology that creates reassurance with organic labels and the comforting promise of recycling. Together with the Egyptian composer Wael Sami Elkholy and three singers, Cele shows us how one person's sustainable dream becomes another's catastrophe ... A spirited, musical plea for a decolonial ecology.
Duration: 65 Min.
Q&A with the artists after the performance on November, 28
Workshop Mending Moods on November, 29 at 16:00, 17:00 and 18:00 including ticket to Wasted Land at 20:00
Biography Ntando Cele
Ntando Cele was born in Durban, South Africa, and lives in Bern. She studied theater in Durban before continuing her artistic education at DasArts in Amsterdam. Together with Raphael Urweider, she founded Manaka Empowerment Prod in 2013. Her performances play with the boundaries between theater, video installation, concert and performance. With humor and deliberately politically incorrect statements, she addresses hidden racism in everyday life. She combines music, text and video to cheerfully dissect prejudices and stereotypes and confront the audience with their own perceptions. In February 2020, Cele invited her fellow artists to discuss issues of racial freedom and the limitations faced by artists of color in a satirical discussion titled Enemy of Progress as part of the That's not so simple festival at the Schlachthaus Theater in Bern. At the Kaserne Basel, she recently showed «YES! YES! YES!» in April 2024.
Credits Wasted Land
Concept and direction Ntando Cele
With Ntando Cele, Brandy Butler, Françoise Gautier, Steffi Lobréau
Composition and musical direction Wael Sami Elkholy
Beats by Soukey
Costume Rudolf Jost
Artistic and technical collaboration Sandro Griesser
Collaboration in dramaturgy Raphael Urweider, Davide-Christelle Sanvee
Assistant director Joëlle Antonie Gbeassor
Sound Janyves Coïc
Lighting Demian Jakob
Video Janosch Abel, Nicolas Gerlier
General technician Nelly Chauvet
Sound technician Eliott Sière, Marc Pieussergues
Lighting technician Julie Nowotnik
Video technician Nicolas Gerlier
German subtitles Melanie Albrecht
Set building Ateliers du Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Production Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne Judith Martin, Marion Caillaud
Booking Elizabeth Gay
Production Manaka Empowerment Prod. Nina Sautter
Production stage design, costume workshop, props Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Coproduction DE SINGEL, Bonlieu scène nationale Annecy, Maison Saint-Gervais Genève, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Festival NEXT, Dampfzentrale, Berne
With the support of Expédition Suisse (LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Gessnerallee Zürich, Theater Chur, Kaserne Basel, Théâtre St-Gervais Genève, Dampfzentale Bern, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne), Kultur Stadt Bern, Swisslos - Kultur Kanton Bern, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Pro Helvetia, Corodis, Loterie romande, Burgergemeinde Bern, Fonds de dotation Porosus, Migros-Kulturprozen, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung
In collaboration with Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig
Many thanks to Isabel Gygax, Ueli Kempter, Patricia Kafwamba Oguey
