the new white aesthetic is dance performance that re-enacts imagery of canonical marble statues. Using the movement practice of ballet – understood as an ethnic dance of the Indo-European diaspora - in developing a practice of dilapidation or “butchered ballet”, the bodies traverse the space. Transitioning from image to image, they dance an erased polychromatic history, embodying the crumbling of the empire and of the new white aesthetic.

Credits:

Choreography: kemelo nozipho sehlapelo

Light design: Levi Josef Schafhauser

Performers: Isidora Gazmuri, Kemelo nozipho sehlapelo, Margareta Sinković, Santiago Mariño

Soft premiere: Theaterlabor. Giessen, Germany. 9th February, 2024