Tiran Willemse: Untitled (Nostalgia: Act 3)
Friday, January 23 | 7:30PM
Saturday, January 24 | 7:30PM
Danspace in collaboration with Swiss Institute is pleased to present Untitled (Nostalgia: Act 3) by artist and choreographer Tiran Willemse. The performance is presented on the occasion of Willemse’s first U.S. solo exhibition, Dweller, at Swiss Institute. In Untitled (Nostalgia: Act 3), Willemse invokes multiple histories of dance, blending the 19th century classical ballet, Giselle, with Kuduro, a dance style tied to a period of civil unrest in Angola in the 1980s, and Alanta, a popular Nigerian dance from the late 2000s. The ghost story of Giselle becomes the narrative vehicle through which past selves, ancestral spirits, repressed histories, and other entities spectrally emerge to reclaim Willemse’s body. Untitled (Nostalgia, Act 3) is an exercise and an exorcism, an evocation of Black experience within European contexts, and a thinly veiled masquerade of contemporary absurdities.
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Tiran Willemse was born in South Africa and lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Recent performances have been presented at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne; Museo MACRO, Rome; Serralves Museum, Porto; Roskilde Festival, Roskilde; and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki. Willemse won the Swiss Performance Prize in 2023.