Influences of a Closet Chant

The piece explores the journey of challenges of otherness in sexuality. The complexity of cultural connotations and denotations, societal prescription and expectations, and the issue of what constitutes gender and its roles and who defines it for who. It highlights the metaphysics of sexuality carried in the metaphor of the closet, situating the individual’s choices against the biological and sexual ones.

A Sangoma is a traditional healer or diviner, who heels people physicaly;mentaly and spiritualy. He can communicate with ancestors people who have died spirits and close dead families. Sangomas use dance to evoke spirits and to send certain messages to people this dance leads to a trance where the sangomas body is then possesed with spirits. I search for belonging in a world of many groupings, running away and questioning theories of theorists who are long gone of how people should live their life. I remember the modern maroons in my life as I try bringing to the surfaces how I see life differently because I am an Azanian influenced by tradition and culture but I didn’t allow such factors to restrict me and the way I behave or live my life. I will become the man that I want to be, and I will Slaughter a cow like a man and dance like a woman because I am IBOKWE.

Esta actividad forma parte del programa del festival Africa Moment.

Creation and performance by Albert Silindokuhle Khoza.
Music by Thabang Tabane and Malombo, Cinematic Orchestra, Madosini and Thandiswa Mazwai.