IN THE LAB

Wel­come to The Lab: our exper­i­men­tal space which seeks to give you an insight into our cre­ative engine room. We fer­tilise ideas from South­ern Nar­ra­tives and fuse them into forms of cre­ative trans­mis­sion with a trans­par­ent social trans­for­ma­tive func­tion­al­ity. The Dias­pora Space is our playground—here are some of the games we have been play­ing recently.

Dec 14, 2011—Posted by Patrice Naiambana
Patrice is in Zim­babwe until Decem­ber 21, lead­ing per­for­mance work­shops and forg­ing col­lab­o­ra­tive links with Zim artists and donors. “I have been able to hold sev­eral fruit­ful cre­ative ses­sions with dancers and actors. Since the National School of Ballet’s roof crashed down, we have met in three dif­fer­ent locations” […]

Oct 20, 2011—Posted by Patrice Naiambana
With­out any upfront fund­ing (again), Tribal Soul has yet again per­formed a mir­a­cle, pro­duc­ing The Gospel of Othello—a unique inter­cul­tural African­ist read­ing of Oth­ello as a story of exile, both spir­i­tual and phys­i­cal. The show was pro­duced from three dif­fer­ent countries—Israel, the UK and Zim­babwe. A com­bi­na­tion of […]

Sep 15, 2011
Patrice is play­ing in Tell Them That I Am Young And Beau­ti­ful at the Arcola The­atre in Lon­don. Cre­ated and per­formed by Mar­cello Magni of Com­plic­ité, Kathryn Hunter, Patrice Naiambana, David Bartholomew Soroczyn­ski and Kora player Tunde Jegede. See here for details. The value of dias­pora aes­thet­ics flow­ing from the […]