Krotoa, an early victim of Cape Colony violence, remains a figure of division, her memory denied peace. Sarah Baartman, a symbol of survival, is weaponised against Khoi women today.
The colonial project did not end with their bodies; it lives on in the silencing of Khoi stories and their present-day struggles.
Through dance, we remember: David Olyn, Phoebe Titus, Rene Roman, Stacha Arendse, Courtney Pieters, Anene Booysen, Kirvan Fortuin etc. Stolen lives, erased and silenced voices. The Cape’s history, written in the blood of her First people. Who speaks for them? Who mourns them? Who will remember them, not as tragedy, but as a call to action?
Production Credits
Produced by: Munanai Theatre Company
Directed by: Toroga Denver
Choreography: Keagan Damons
Director of photography: Andy Parman
Location: Paarl
About the Artists
Keagan Xavier Damons is an artist, technically trained in various styles of dance such as Modern, Hip Hop/Commerical, African, Ballet and Afrofusion.
Toroga Denver, founder of the Munanai Theatre Company, is a Khoikhoi First Peoples storyteller, filmmaker, and artist-activist.
Together, through //Is ge sada, sada ge //is, she is us and we are her, they summon the audience into a sacred act of witnessing: a visual poem woven from shared memory, ancestral grief, embodied resistance, and the urgent journey to self and community.
- Programme type: vFringe
- Genre: Dance & Physical Theatre
- Duration:
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Ages:
16+
- Suitable for All Ages
- 16+
- Adult Themes
- M - MATURE CONTENT
- Violence
