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Isifiso SakaGogo Performance Theatre
Smangaliso Ngwenya
Performer| Videographer| Editor| Writer| Dancer| Choreographer
PERFORMANCE
Glare (2021)
Stare.
Stairs tinted by a haunting ominous shade of accumulated muck- plunge into it, glare with every trace of your existence re-exist through them.
Glare through them.
Tell your story through them.
Fragmented Scribbles Ensamble (2023)
There is an embodied language that cannot be articulated in words nor whispered in the deepest, wildest thoughts. These are brief scribbles…
BARENA REIMAGINED (2022)
Barena Reimagined delves into questioning “is power drawn from symbols or is it inherent in the ruler? Furthermore, it probes whether when one examines themselves is humanity not the most important thing?
Original Choreography: Vincent Sekwati Mantsoe Re-imagined Choreography: David April
Performer & Performance Ethnographer: Smangaliso Ngwenya
Costume: Luzuko Mbalo
Music: Madonsini, Tribal Ethno Dance, Pops Mohamed & Eric Satie
Home? (2021)
Labelled in a myriad of sayings and words of sweetness, charity and an organ of the body allocated to a feeling undefined yet definitely felt.
Sometimes misconceived as tangible, physical - burdening the actual intrinsic existence…
Bina.Pina (2022)
Bina.Pina is a physical theatre production that seeks to locate breath through movement and dance. The production explores what moves us as people, and what makes us be moved by other people. During the times when movement has been restricted, the piece seeks to celebrate our love for movement and song, and the relationship between music and movement.
Choreographer: Kamogelo Molobye
Music Composers: Ntandoyamangwe Mazibuko and Awande Dube Costume: Nadia Kruger & Magdeline Molubi
Stage Manager: Nqobile Ngomane
Poster design: Bongisisiwe Ndumela
Video editing: Smangaliso Ngwenya
Descent into Death (2021)
This screen dance film is inspired by Howard Storm’s novel “My Descent into Death” which captures his near death experience and his experiences in a realm unknown to the living. This film is an engagement with the light, with darkness and all in between.
Fragmented Scribbles (2020)
There is an embodied language that cannot be articulated in words nor whispered in the deepest, wildest thoughts. These are brief scribbles… "Fragmented Scribbles" captures moments of endless embodied conversations that occur in one’s body, mind and spirit. Captured in a kitchen, a space of creation firstly catalysed by the COVID-19 constraints, but now a stage for the showcasing of a constantly evolving embodied language.
WAISTLINE (2021)
Waistline is a performance lecture that seeks to explore what lies at the core of (hyper)masculinity and its conformity to rigidities. The performance lecture seeks to discover the void that exists in speaking about manhood and masculinities and the ways in which discussions about manhood and masculinities avoid dialogues that complicate and nuance engagement on the spectrum of masculinities. Important to the performance lecturer is the recognition that somatics functions as a methodology of knowledge enquiry and knowledge production. This is fundamental as it appreciates dance, movement and embodied practices as process of sensory experiences towards vulnerable communication. This pursuit towards engaging with embodied practices of masculine vulnerabilities follows Thomas Hanna’s discussion of somatics as a practice of “first-person perception” (1988: 20).
Co-choreographed and performed by Kamogelo Molobye & Smangaliso Ngwenya
MASK-YOUR-LINEARITY (2021)
Deconstruct, challenge, and reconstruct the linearity and performativity of sexuality.
Delink the linearity of the masculine.
Mask your linearity.
Dictated Democracy
(2018)
​Democracy ... A myth existing within the parameters of ominous dictatorship.
MASK-YOUR-LINEARITY (2017)
This is an exploration of something that I physically represent. This piece aims to dubunk it, manipulate it, and seduce the concept of maculinity. Masculinity specifically in the black male body continues to be something I am willing to explore further, blur the boundaries between the feminine and the masculine body. "Mask-your-linearity" was sparked by my continuous interest in sexuality specifically masculinity. This was the beginning (2016) Filmed, edited, choregraphed, and performed by Smangaliso Ngwenya.
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