Anthem of Live - Part 1
Thursday, June 20, 2024
12:00am to 12:00am
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Anthem of Life is Edmonton Playwright Tololwa Mollel's adaption of South African Poet Laureate Mazisi Kunene's Anthem of the Decades: A Zulu Epic (AOTD).
Anthem of Life is Edmonton Playwright Tololwa Mollel's adaption of South African Poet Laureate Mazisi Kunene's Anthem of the Decades: A Zulu Epic (AOTD). Driven by a diverse ensemble of performers from various artistic disciplines, the trilogy will include a fluid mixture of African-style storytelling, Odissi Dance and Odissi-inspired movement; live Hindustani music, choral speech and animation of large-scale Zulu-style God-masks and creatures.
The heart of Kunene's epic is a Zulu creation myth. In it, the Supreme Creator sends to earth the slow chameleon with a message: "Mankind shall live forever!" Later, he sends the fast salamander to say: "Mankind shall die!". Kunene grew this into a saga of vast cosmological quests and conflicts, ultimately resolving into a balance between The Creator, the Gods, Humanity, the Ancestors and the Cosmos. Anthem of Life Part 1 explores the creation of humanity, debates and intrigues between Goddesses and Gods over whether to destroy or empower us and trials and triumphs we undergo because of their actions.
Anthem of Life Part 1 will be premiering in 2024!
Alberta Avenue Community Centre
9210 118 Ave NW
Edmonton, AB, T5G 0N2
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