Dance for the Future

{Migration} {Memory} {Queering soap operas}

Mzamo Nondlwana dances toward the future. This solo performance, created in collaboration with sound artist Lens Kühleitner and visual artist Maanila de Moraes, drafts an alternative vision of what is to come. Rooted in radical queer and feminist movements, the work denounces the values of White Supremacy and their foundations in domination and destruction.

Dance for the Future taps into the collective consciousness, sharing pandemic experiences while emphasizing the power of community as a form of healing. The performance explores the "dance of the future" as "a space where the supernatural, the fantastic, the historical, and the futuristic merge" (Mark Dery, US author, lecturer, and cultural critic).

Black, queer-feminist, and migrant communities, alongside the Global South and alternative movements, have a long history of exposing and dismantling heteronormative structures. Dance for the Future draws its inspiration directly from these marginalized spaces. Themes of collectivity, grief, and transformation give the work its shape, finding expression through sound, video, and Mzamo Nondlwana’s physical performance. This dance is a dedication to a better future.

Presented within the framework of Choreographic Platform Austria.