A personal piece with a national significance, Exit/Exist examines the life of one of Maqoma’s ancestors.
At just after 6pm on Wednesday, 28 June, Gregory Maqoma bent down and flattened his right palm on the Rhodes Theatre stage and, as a dancer, said good-bye to the National Arts Festival for the final time.
Maqoma explored the ancestral echoes connecting him with that history; first shimmering with urban slick in a silk suit, then moving through a process of initiation and ritual observance in a cowhide tunic into the memory of his rural ancestor. At one point, Maqoma was moving around the stage with a metal plate balanced perfectly on his head, even as he whirled under a stream of yellow sand falling from up ahead — a moment to beggar belief.
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