ROBYN ORLIN - AND SO YOU SEE...

Controversial and provocative choreographer, Robyn Orlin has continuously pushed the boundaries of performance and dance in the 20 years that she has been creating work. Orlyn has worked in diverse media including film, theatre, dance and opera to analyze and reflect open issues around culture, history and identity. For her latest creation, this series of images reveals a blue-skinned figure, dressed in a robe, floating like a meditative divinity against a backdrop of landscapes and deserted architectures. This silhouette and its "search for a place”, like a naïve art icon embedded in the midst of the ruins of different landscapes, is that of Albert Khoza, a young South African performer whose condition cristallizes the questions that Robyn Orlin puts, unrelentingly, to post-apartheid society in South Africa.Controversial and provocative choreographer, Robyn Orlin has continuously pushed the boundaries of performance and dance in the 20 years that she has been creating work. Orlyn has worked in diverse media including film, theatre, dance and opera to analyze and reflect open issues around culture, history and identity. For her latest creation, this series of images reveals a blue-skinned figure, dressed in a robe, floating like a meditative divinity against a backdrop of landscapes and deserted architectures. This silhouette and its "search for a place”, like a naïve art icon embedded in the midst of the ruins of different landscapes, is that of Albert Khoza, a young South African performer whose condition cristallizes the questions that Robyn Orlin puts, unrelentingly, to post-apartheid society in South Africa.
Com Albert Silindokuhle Ibokwe Khoza.