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Sibyl
An evening of two parts as artist William Kentridge brings his visionary practice to stage with a stunning chamber opera and short film with live music, created with fellow South African artists.
The Moment Has Gone is a short film accompanied by a live piano score and a captivating all male South African chorus. It charts the making of City Deep, Kentridge’s latest animated film and incorporates ideas that reappear in Waiting for the Sibyl.
Waiting for the Sibyl is a visually stunning chamber opera with a full company of singers and dancers. It features signature elements of Kentridge’s practice – projection, performance, music and hand-painted backdrops. Sibyl is an ancient Greek priestess, whose readings of fates often ended up in the wrong hands.
William Kentridge: Concept & Director
With music composed and conceived by Nhlanhla Mahlangu and Kyle Shepherd
Greta Goiris: Costume Design
Sabine Theunissen: Set Design
Urs Schönebaum: Lighting Design
Performers: Kyle Shepherd, Nhlanhla Mahlangu, Xolisile Bongwana, Thulani Chauke, Teresa Phuti Mojela, Thandazile ‘Sonia’ Radebe, Ayanda Nhlangothi, Zandile Hlatshwayo, Siphiwe Nkabinde, S’busiso Shozi
Sibyl received an Olivier awards in 2023
The Head & the Load is about Africa and Africans in the First World War, that is to say about the contradictions and paradoxes of colonialism that were heated and compressed by the circumstances of the war. It is about historical incomprehension (and inaudibility and invisibility). The colonial logic towards the black participants could be summed up as, ‘Lest their actions merit recognition, their deeds must not be recorded.’ The Head & the Load aims to recognise and record those deeds.
William Kentridge: Concept & Director
Philip Miller: Composer
Thuthuka Sibisi: Co-composer and Music Director
Greta Goiris: Costume Design
Sabine Theunissen: Set Design
MYTHOLOGY
Design costume based on the play Pas de mémoire, mémoire de pas of Driss Ksikes
Design and making : Mathilde Baillarger
Fragments of memories come back, this uncontrolled flow evoked by the lower structure of the costume, transparency and ephemerality of the moment.
For the bodice, the décolleté is covered by equal folds, showing the absence of memories, neutrality, only feminine curves are highlighted. While the back, fuzzy representation of character’s past, is covered with gatherings, multiple stratas, under which are buried her lost memory.
THÉÂTRE DU CHÂTELET
Director: Lee Blakeley
Composer: Stephen Sondheim
Costumes: Adrian Linford
MACBETH
Costume of lady Macbeth for the play Macbeth by Shakespeare
Design and making : Mathilde Baillarger
Lady Macbeth costume, mixing Renaissance historical form, and contemporary graphic design.
Creation of patterns, and screen printing for the skirts. Embroidery on the bodice, using the technique of appliqué inversé.
RENAISSANCE
Pair of bodies and farthingale
Design and making: Mathilde Baillarger
