BLACK NOTICE
first performed on November 14, 2013
MC Theater, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
performed three times in 2013
NTANDO CELE
Henning Luther, George Dimitriu
Durban, South Africa & Bern, Switzerland
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BLACK NOTICE
NTANDO CELE
“Black Notice” is the second part of a body of work where I deal with contemporary responses to prejudice in white Europe. I create my own freak show. In this twenty-minute performance, I play my white alter ego Bianca White; using black and white photographs of young black women from the 1800s, as well as gestures and song, I exaggerate exoticism to a point where it loses its romantic notions. I aggressively create a specific black experience and a specific white experience that become ridiculous. Collaborating with a drummer and a guitarist based in Amsterdam who play live, we recreate superficial impressions of the other, hoping the viewer will take notice.