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Posts Tagged ‘Cape Malay’
Cabo de Tormentoso, Cape of Good Hope
In December 2011, Harmattan Theater collaborated with the Cape Malay community of Cape Town to create an environmental performance at the historic site of colonial arrival: Dias Beach at the Cape of Good Hope. The Cape Town Malays were brought to South Africa as part of the Dutch maritime slave economy to work as laborers […]
Chronocorpus
Digital Performance Chronocorpus emerged out of the personal histories of Sofia Varino, a Lisbon based performance artist, and May Joseph, whose cultural moorings include, Doha, Dar-es-salaam, Cochin, and the former Batavia, now modern Djakarta. Their intertwining shared histories of Portuguese and Dutch maritime pasts and their attendant colonial encounters in Asia, Africa and the Americas, […]
Cabo de Tormentoso
Dias Beach, Cape of Good Hope, South AfricaDecember 12, 2011, 7-8 am. Directed by May Joseph. In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope, leading the way for Vasco Da Gama ten years later to find a sea route to Asia. Dias initially called the Southern tip of Africa where the Atlantic and […]