GISELLE 28 FEB - 2 MAR 2019 HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE - Perth Festival
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SOUTH AFRICA
DADA MASILO’S
GISELLE
28 FEB - 2 MAR 2019
HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE
AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE
International
Excellence PartnerDADA MASILO’S
GISELLE
HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE
Thu 28 Feb - Sat 2 Mar 8pm
Duration 75mins
Post Show Conversation Fri 1 Mar 9.15pm
Please note: Contains nudity
Perth Festival acknowledges that our events take place on the lands of the Noongar people.
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FANFARE
You were called to your seat tonight by ‘Troposphere’, a fanfare composed by 19-year-old UWA student Charles
Barblett. Visit perthfestival.com.au for more information on the Fanfare project and this composition.Image: Stella Olivier
CREDITS
Choreography Dada Masilo Dada Masilo’s Giselle has been commissioned by The Joyce Theater’s Stephen and
Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work; the Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College; la
Music Philip Miller* Biennale de la danse de Lyon 2018, Sadler’s Wells
Drawings William Kentridge Additional commissioning grant: La Batie-Festival de Geneve
Directorial Assistance David April
Lighting Suzette le Sueur *with additional funding from the SAMRO FOUNDATION
Costumes David Hutt of Donker Nag Helder Dag (Act 1),
Songezo Mcilizeli & Nonofo Olekeng of Those Two Lifestyle
(Act 2)
Cast
Giselle Dada Masilo ACT 1 – A Village
Albrecht Xola Willie & Lwando Dutyulwa Technical pause 5 minutes
Hilarion Tshepo Zasekhaya ACT 2 – Land of the Wilis/Spirits
Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis Llewellyn Mnguni
Bathilde Liyabuya Gongo
Translations
Giselle’s Mother Sinazo Bokolo
Men/Wilis Thami Tshabalala, Steven Mokone, Hamba Nhliziyo Yami traditional funeral hymn
Tshepo Zasekhaya ‘Go to heaven my heart, for there is no peace on
Women/Wilis Zandile Constable, Sinazo Bokolo, this earth.’
Liyabuya Gongo, Nadine Buys
Myrtha’s Calling of the Wilis/Spirits
Musicians for Recording ‘I’m calling all of you! Here is a man who is breaking
hearts! Catch him!’
Vocalists Ann Masina, Vusumuzi Nhlapo, Bham Maxwell
Ntabeni, Tumelo Moloi
Strings Waldo Alexander (electric violin), Emile de Roubaix
(violin, viola), Cheryl de Havilland (cello)
French Horn Shannon Armer
Percussion Tlale Makhene, Riaan van Rensburg
Final Mix Gavan EckhartImage: John Hogg SYNOPSIS The original ballet is about a peasant girl named Giselle, sweet, sad girls, but rather something more terrifying. who dies of a broken heart after discovering that her They have been had. They are heartbroken. And they lover is betrothed to another. The Wilis, a group of want revenge. Their spirits can only be free if they bring supernatural women who dance men to death, summon about the deaths of those who wronged them. Giselle Giselle from her grave. They target her lover for death, does not forgive. After her revenge, she is released from but Giselle’s love frees him from their grasp. the mortal world and can be a free spirit. In Dada Masilo’s interpretation Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis, is a Sangoma. The Wilis are spirits/ancestors who literally call Giselle to join them. They are not a group of A NOTE FROM THE CREATOR It is a big challenge to revise yet another classic without the protagonists: Albrecht and Hilarion seem just there repeating myself. I aimed to create a work that is not to support the female lead, Giselle’s mad scene relies about forgiveness, but about love, deceit, betrayal, anger on messy hair … I wanted to go much deeper and most and heartbreak. I strove to create a new movement importantly, to create Wilis that are really vicious. vocabulary and to push myself in terms of storytelling. In the traditional ballet, there is a clear narrative, but the Dada Masilo characters are rather two dimensional. The emphasis is on the steps, rather than on the unique psychologies of
BIOGRAPHIES Dada Masilo Creator & Choreographer Dada Masilo was born and bred in Johannesburg, South Africa. She began formal training at The Dance Factory at the age of 11. At the age of 19, she was accepted as a student at the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios in Brussels, where she remained for two years. She returned to South Africa and in 2008 was awarded the prestigious Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Dance. Three commissions from the National Arts Festival resulted in her Romeo and Juliet (2008), Carmen (2009) and Swan Lake (2010). Since 2012 her works have toured extensively throughout Europe. In 2016 she staged and performed her Swan Lake in Ottawa, Montreal, Hannover, Amherst and Pittsburgh, finishing with six performances at The Joyce Theater, New York. She returned to New York in September, to stage her Spring at City Center as part of ‘Fall for Dance’ and and again six months later to create a gallery work accompanying Romare Bearden’s Bayou series. This was performed at the DC Moore Gallery. In May 2017, Masilo premiered her Giselle at Dansenshus, Oslo. It has since played in Kuopio (Finland), at the University of Johannesburg and at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, the Wits 969 Festival in Johannesburg, Impulstanz in Vienna (Austria), followed by seasons in Geneva, Rome, Ferrara and Reggio Emillio. 2017 ended with performances of Refuse the Hour in San Francisco and Los Angeles; and performances of Masilo’s Swan Lake in Singapore and across Germany. In 2018 Giselle was performed in Hanover NH, New York (at The Joyce Theater), in Los Angeles (at the Wallis-Annenberg) and at the Quick Center, Fairfield University. Masilo has also collaborated with William Kentridge and has been seen in Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Athens, Rome, New York, San Franciso, Los Angeles, Avignon and Vienna, and here at Perth Festival in his Refuse the Hour. Masilo performs in her own works, together with some of South Africa’s finest dance artists, selected by audition. She is Artist-in-Residence at The Dance Factory.
Image: John Hogg Philip Miller Composer Philip Miller is a composer and sound artist from South Africa who works in many different media from live performance to film, video and sound installations. His long time collaboration with artist William Kentridge includes the recent projects Triumphs and Laments, Rome, Five Themes at the Tate Modern, London, the opera production Refuse the Hour, the multimedia installation Refusal of Time exhibited at Dokumenta 13, Kassel, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Whitechapel Gallery, London. His live performance of the award-winning choral composition, Rewind, a cantata for voice, tape and testimony has been performed internationally and he has scored numerous award-winning soundtracks including HBO’s The Girl, the Emmy award-winner Miner’s Shot Down, The Book of Negroes and Roots. In 2016 Miller premiered his new video and sound installation, Bikohausen, at Germany’s Darmstadt Summer Music Festival, and in collaboration with composer Thuthuka Sibisi, The African Choir of 1891 Re-imagined, at the Autograph Gallery in London. This is now being developed into a live production. The Dance Factory The Dance Factory was established in 1992 in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the primary aim of creating a home for dance. In 1994 it moved from temporary accommodation to a renovated bus repair warehouse, where it now has a large studio and a 220 seat theatre. Based in the city centre, it is accessible to dancers and audiences from town and township. Between 1993 and 2001 The Dance Factory coordinated nine annual dance festivals for Arts Alive, a project of the City of Johannesburg. These festivals were a platform for a wide range of dance: quality international guests such as Donald Byrd/The Group (New York), Rosas (Brussels), Scapino Ballet (Rotterdam), professional dance companies from across South Africa, tertiary dance programs, community dance groups, youth groups – covering styles ranging from classical ballet to gumboot, from physical theatre to pantsula. The festivals also offered training to young aspiring theatre technicians, many of whom are now stalwarts within the profession. The participation of township youth groups (selected by audition) brought to The Dance Factory many highly talented young people. One such, was the 11-year-old Dada Masilo, with the Soweto-based youth group The PeaceMakers. At the request of group leaders, The Dance Factory instituted a program of formal training. For a good 10 years, this was primarily funded by The Royal Netherlands Embassy. What began as a once a week project, developed into an intensive seven days a week program, where up to 60 under 18s received training in ballet and contemporary dance and performed works by South Africa’s best emerging choreographers. The Dance Factory also accessed funding for formal education at the National School of the Arts and other establishments that offered quality academic tuition. Of course, many youngsters could not stay the course, but those who remained were assisted, on leaving school, to continue their training both in South Africa and abroad. On leaving the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios in Brussels, Dada Masilo returned to The Dance Factory, where she became Artist-in-Residence. As such, she had access to the studio and theatre and received technical and administrative support in order to develop her career.
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