Mimi's Shebeen

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Mimi’s Shebeen is a powerful new theatre production by KVS face and artist Alesandra Seutin and her company Vocab Dance. Through dance, text, singing and music, she takes the audience into the depths of a deconstructed Shebeen* and on a journey full of life, struggle, perseverance and determination.

Inspired by the South-African singer Miriam Makeba and her exile from her own country, Seutin uses the legacy of Makeba’s work as a political activist to convey stories of exile, immigration and human rights.

Mimi’s Shebeen will infuse the unique and unmistakable signatory style of Seutin’s Afro-Centric Dance Theatre. Lisette Ma Neza provides the text, Angelo Moustapha and Tarang Cissokho the music, and Tutu Puoane sings.

Where do you find the strength to keep your head held high when you have been exiled from your motherland, separated from your mother, your people and your roots? How do you survive – flourish, even – so far away from everyone and everything you know?

*A shebeen is an unlicensed bar in the South African townships.

Pers

"Deze Mimi's Shebeen is een indrukwekkend totaalplaatje vol moederliefde. Mama Africa is nog steeds onder ons."

Het Nieuwsblad ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

"Alesandra Seutins hybride danstheater bijt, verleidt en sust, en dat steeds opnieuw."

Etcetera

"Met uitbundige dans, met stevige (live!) drums en met snijdende teksten stampen de performers hun woede eruit. De witte overheerser krijgt een driedubbele draai om de oren. Een aanlokkelijke oorvijg, dat wel, die je laat knikken op de beat, terwijl de performers krumpen en hun voorouders om hulp roepen in hun vrijheidsstrijd."

Etcetera

Trailer

Bio

Alesandra Seutin

Live recording 

Live recording on demand via saskia.lienard@kvs.be (programmers) or sebastien.parizel@kvs.be (press). https://vimeo.com/815598964?share=copy

Credits

You can find the credits here.

PRESS OFFICER
Sébastien Parizel
sebastien.parizel@kvs.be
0478 92 09 82

​​(INTER)NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION & TOUR COORDINATION
​​Saskia Liénard
​​saskia.lienard@kvs.be
​​0496 55 19 92

PRODUCTION MANAGER
Catherine Vervaecke
catherine.vervaecke@kvs.be
02 210 11 57