Moin Moin Productions

Western films serve Jeremy Nedd and the Pantsula artists of Impilo Mapantsula as a speculative starting point for new stories and myths. After their successful production the ecstatic, the nine Pantsula artists of Impilo Mapantsula and Jeremy Nedd are now working together again to explore the "Western". The Western as a film genre makes use of extremely explicit tropes around the hero, the "other," and the vast, empty landscape they both fight over and inhabit. A number of characters and images from these clichés have become deeply imprinted in the collective imagination, but these are certainly not images of Pantsulas....

How a falling star lit up the purple sky is a dynamic visual poem that proposes a paradigm shift, rethinks the idea of the archetype, and hopefully invites a reassessment of the psychic and geographic spaces occupied by the Western, the (Wild) West, and the South.

CREDITS
Concept / Choreography: Jeremy Nedd
performance / choreography: Sicelo Xaba, Vusi Mdoyi, Sello Modiga, Thomas Motsapi, Sonakele Masethi, Vuyani Feni, Sibongile Mathebula, Elma Motloenya, Lungile Ngwenya, original cast Kgotsofalang Moshe 
Lighting design / technical director: Thomas Giger
Lighting design / technical director touring: Sebastian Sommer
Stage design: Laura Knüsel
Audio design: Fabrizio Di Salvo & Rej Deproc
Musical consulting: Brandy Butler
Costume design: Rosa Birkedal
Dramaturgy: Anta Helena Recke
Diffusion: ART HAPPENS
Production management: Regula Schelling / produktionsDOCK
Production Touring: Caroline Froelich (Moin Moin Productions)
Touring: Arina Frölich

In co-production with: Kaserne Basel; Arsenic - Contemporary Performing Arts Center, Lausanne; International Summer Festival Kampnagel; Wiesbaden Biennale; The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg

With the support of: Fachausschuss Tanz & Theater BS/BL, Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council, SüdKulturFonds, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, Cultural Fund of the Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA), GGG Basel, Jacqueline Spengler Foundation, Scheidegger-Thommen Foundation, Swiss Performers Foundation

INFO
Duration: 90 min.
Language: seSotho, seTswana, isiXhosa, isiZulu, English, with English surtitles

DATES
Premiere: May 11th, 2022, Kaserne Basel, Switzerland, Performances May 12-15, 2022.
Arsenic Lausanne: May 26-29, 2022.
National Arts Festival, South Africa: July 1-3, 2022
Kampnagel International Summer Festival: August 18-20, 2022
Noorderzon Festival Groningen: August 26-28, 2022
Wiebaden Biennale: September 4-5, 2022
Dampfzentrale in Bern Switzerland: April 5-6 2023
FOG Triennale Milano Performing Arts: April 12-13 2023
Gessnerallee Zürich, Switzerland:  Feb 28-29 2024
Points Communs, France : Mar 07 2024
Teatro NOS Lima, Peru: 14. & 15. March 2025
Teatro Santander Bucaramanga, Colombia: 19. March 2025
Teatro Metropolitano Medellin, Colombia: 22. March 2025 
Centro National de las Artes Bogota, Colombia: 29. March 2025