BLACK.SPACE.RACE

BLACK. SPACE. RACE. has become a narrative concert which is a performance on a concert stage with dialogues and theatrical flow. A super Sonic Afrobeat performance that has depth and deeply felt impact for the audience as it was performed to at least 300 people in 4 days.

BLACK. SPACE. RACE. uses the remarkable story of Edward Mukuka Nkoloso and his Zambian Space Programme of the 1960s to show how one-dimensional and colonialist the Western world’s view of Africa is. Then as now. In a vibrant Afrobeat performance with song, storytelling, dance and physical theatre, and incorporating political contexts, the Bernese group Manaka Empowerment Prod. around Ntando Cele and Raphael Urweider celebrates the image of a future-hungry, humorous and self-confident Africa. The future is black!

 

Premiered – 22 December 2018

 

CONCEPT/TEXT/DIRECTOR

Ntando Cele, Raphael Urweider

PERFORMANCE

Ntando Cele, Angela Kerrison, Robin Adams, Wael Sami Elkholy

CHOREOGRAPHY

Pascale Altenburger

COMPOSITION

Maze Künzler, Raphael Urweider

GUEST COMPOSITION

Simon Ho, James Gruntz

BAND

Tevfik Kuyas (band leader, bass), Maze Künzler (guitar), Ueli Kempter (keyboard), Kevin Chesham/Pit Hertig (drums), Mory Samb (ngoni, percussion)

DRAMATURGY

Barbara Boss

STAGE

Renato Grob

COSTUME

Rudolf Jost

LIGHTING

Maria Liechti

SOUND

Markus Luginbühl, Valerio Rodelli

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS

Sandro Griesser, Mirjam Berger

PRODUCTION

Manaka Empowerment Prod.

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

Boss & Röhrenbach

PHOTOGRAPHY

Janosch Abel

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