Name: DU24 Mamela Nyamza - Hatched Ensemble
Start: 2024-10-09T20:15:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-09T21:30:00+01:00
Location: Barbican Theatre - Barbican Centre

Internationally renowned choreographer Mamela Nyamza makes her Barbican debut, assembling 10 dancers, an opera singer and an African traditional multi-instrumentalist to perform the UK premiere of HATCHED ENSEMBLE, her urgent and subtly spectacular work.
Clad in costumes covered in clothes pegs and balanced timidly en pointe while Camille Saint-Saëns’ The Swan plays, the dancers challenge gender norms while juxtaposing references to Western classical dance and music, with South African vocals.
Mamela Nyamza has won many accolades for her activism-focused creations. HATCHED ENSEMBLE continues her work which unapologetically demystifies and deconstructs the history of dance, interrogating the accepted norms of the classics.