{"id":612,"date":"2013-07-14T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.insense-scenes.net\/wordpress\/?p=612"},"modified":"2013-07-14T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T16:56:00","slug":"r-1-211-apartheid-yesterday-and-today","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/juliechaumard.paris\/winsense\/article\/r-1-211-apartheid-yesterday-and-today\/","title":{"rendered":"R 1 211 – Apartheid, yesterday and today"},"content":{"rendered":"

La chor\u00e9graphe Mamela Nyamza pr\u00e9sente avec la com\u00e9dienne Faniswa Yisa – toutes deux n\u00e9es en 1976 – un Sujet \u00e0 Vif en finesse sur une Afrique du Sud qui n’en finit pas de se d\u00e9battre avec un pass\u00e9 qui pourrait \u00eatre avenir.<\/strong> <\/em>
\n Once upon a time, a South-African militant said : \u00ab People must arrive at vanquishing this element of political life that plays against them. This element is their feeling of inferiority. \u00bb
\nThat\u2019s what it is said in the program, as a prelude.
\n 16th of June 1976. Soweto, 8.am. At the beginning, a simple student manifestation. At the end, a massacre.
\nThis year – 1976 – became for South-African artists a reason to fight, but also to explore a creative energy. A naked page for imagination, across through its own violence and its own poesy.
\nThe question is: what about our inferiority? What about your inferiority? What about this reality?
\nMamela Nyamza was certainly ready for another scene. A \u00ab more official \u00bb one. A big one. But she was invited to the Sujet \u00e0 Vif. Well. She offers there \u2013 with Faniswa Yisa – a subtle blend of political and invisible things.
\nAnd it\u2019s a long long story.
\nA World story.
\nA Human stuff.
\nPeople borned in 1976, woken from a black sleep, full of flames.
\n And, sometimes, it takes time to wake up.
\n On stage, Mamela Nyamza and Faniswa Yisa wear the colours of their country. The two acts of the History. The three colours of the flag \u2014 black, green and yellow \u2014 are found in the flag of the African National Congress. The other three \u2014 red, white and blue \u2014 are used in the old Flag of Transvaal, the modern flag of the Netherlands and the flag of the United Kingdom. The colours white and blue were also found in the old flag of South Africa.
\nFaniswa wears the yellow part, as a domestic, or a slave. Mamela the blue part, as a queen. They dance for the reconcilation. They try. But when they are close to it, when it becomes easy, when we see all the colours touching each other, two German dogs arrive and bark. And both women, immediately, kneel down. It is not so easy to protect yourself from the feeling of inferiority.
\n Later, to calm the dogs, Fanswa offers them some water. And the two dogs become quiet. \u201cIf you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner\u201d says Nelson Mandela and, before him, Sun Tzu in his The art of war.
\n Mamela says that she loves her art because \u201cit has this powerful tool that speaks to all without a word.\u201d But her art is, in fact, an intense writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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