Moin Moin Productions

Pantsula, a historically significant South African subculture. Expressed not only as a powerful dance form which is well known for it’s high-speed virtuosic footwork, but also evident through a dress code, language, music, and a particular philosophy of life that is all it’s own. An expression that during Apartheid gave a voice to a whole generation. 
Praise Break, a mode of praise. A moment... a pause… a break in the context of the Christian Pentecostal Church service, where the dancing body, voice and music energetically coalesce and as a result blur the difference between ecstatic and cathartic.
What happens when the aesthetics of these two worlds converge? What happens in this transcendental moment of “break”. Within the dance piece “The Ecstatic” six Pantsula dancers turn to the motions that lead up to the praise break in order to find out, and “break open” a new space all their own.

CREDITS  
Concept/Choreography: Jeremy Nedd & Impilo Mapantsula
Performance/Choregraphy: Kgotsofalang Moshe Mavundla, Tommy Tee Motsapi, Bonakele Mambotjie Masethi, Sicelo Malume ka Xaba, Sello Zilo Midiga, Vusi Mdoyi
Technical Director / Light design: Thomas Giger
Stage design: Laura Knüsel
Audiodesign: Fabrizio Di Salvo
Music/Composition: Xzavier Stone & Modulaw
Diffusion: ART HAPPENS
Production Management Switzerland: Ursula Haas
Production Management South Africa: Daniela Goeller
Production Touring: Caroline Froelich (Moin Moin Productions)
Dramaturgy: Anta Helena Recke
Production Assistance: Kihako Narisawa, Lucas Del Rio Estevez
Outside Eye: Deborah Holman, Maximilian Hanisch

With the support of: Fachausschuss Tanz & Theater BS/BL, Südkulturfonds, Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung, Migros Kulturprozent, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung, Jacqueline Spengler-Stiftung, Schweizer Interpretenstiftung, Wilhelm und Ida Hertner-Strasser Stiftung

past dates 
Premiere: 04th May 2019 Kaserne, Basel (Reithalle), Switzerland
05.-08 05.2019 Kaserne, Basel (Reithalle), Switzerland
16-19.05.2019 Arsenic Lausanne, Switzerland
23-24 05.2019 Theater Tuchlaube Aarau (Reithalle), Switzerland
29-30.10.2019 Spielart Munich, Germany
15.07.2022 Ubumuntu Arts Festival - Kigali, Rwanda
09.07.2022 Maitisong - Gabarone, Botswana
04.-05.02.2022 swiss dance days, Kaserne Basel, Switzerland
25.-27.05.2023 Sophiensaele, Berlin, Germany
07.06.2023 viernulvier, Ghent, Belgium
09.-10.2023 De Singel, Antwerp, Belgium
14.06.2023 Rencontres Chorégraphiques, St. Denis / Paris, France
14-26.09.2023 SESC Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paulo & Campinas, Brazil
18.10.2023 Danse Biennale, Charleroi Danse, Brussels, Belgium