Choreographed by Lulu Mlangeni, the work touches on forgiveness, immortality, truth, sacrifice and betrayal. The caged bird shrills for freedom, writes Maya Angelou in her autobiographical fiction, and Lulu Mlangeni’s Kganya is a cawing, clawing call towards this light. In Kganya, with its all-caps title, Mlangeni turns the gaze from the bird’s oppression only, toward a mirror of our own gaze. Mlangeni looks at herself and looks at us in turn, as though to say, “Kganya!”There is nothing timid about Mlangeni’s dance theatre. In the mirror-world that Mlangeni invents for Kganya, we are implicated at every turn, so the laugh hits home.

Source: News 24 July 12, 2021 07:07 UTC