DADA MASILO │SWAN LAKE  Artists  

Born in Johannesburg, Dada Masilo is a young South African dancer and choreographer. She made her first appearance at the Anticodes Festival in Brest in March 2011, and at the Fragile Dance Festival at the Bouffes du Nord Theatre in Paris in November 2011 with a solo work called The Bitter End of Rosemary. In the work she questions Ophelia in Hamlet, acting out the madness of the character with a new form of expression, thus revealing its extreme vulnerability.
 
She trained at the Dance Factory in Johannesburg, then studied for two years in 2005 and 2006 in Brussels at the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (PARTS) founded by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker.
 
Very soon she became one of the most renowned choreographers in South Africa, where she performed in many festivals (particularly at the Dance Umbrella Festival) and has won several awards. She trains young dancers in turn, and frequently gives workshops in the US. However, this is the first time she has brought her full dance production to the US.
 
Dada Masilo is an unconventional choreographer and a prodigious dancer. Known for her reworking of classical ballets, she realized Romeo and Juliet in 2008 and Carmen in 2009. Her productions have toured in Tanzania, Mali, Mexico, Israel and across Europe.
 
In her newest creation, Swan Lake , with a company of thirteen male and female African dancers, she revisits this great classic, with its themes, Tchaikovsky’s music, its tutus and its points. She reimagines this ballet through a South African eye, giving it a new breath and a new life, tackling the issues of sexes and genders, and of homophobia in a country ravaged by AIDS. Swan Lake is a pure moment of exhilarating and intelligent dance which revisits with passion our dance repertory.

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