To What End?
The project at Rome Opera, Waiting for the Sibyl, comes from an invitation from the opera house to make a companion piece to the 1968 piece by the American artist Alexander Calder, called Work in Progress. The 1968 piece is a beautiful, whimsical almost-happening of the era, with mobiles slowly turning on the stage, and groups of bicycle riders; but the signature mobiles of Alexander Calder are the heart of the piece. In responding to the invitation to do a second half of the evening, I wanted something that also had a sense of turning, of revolution, and of the lightness of the Calder. I was reminded of the image of the Cumaean Sibyl. My understanding of her story was that she lived in her cave near Naples; people would come to her with questions about their fate, and she would write the answers on oak leaves. There would be a pile of oak leaves at the front of her cave and people would come to get their answers. But inevitably there would be a wind which blew the leaves around – so you never knew if you were getting your fate or somebody else’s fate. It’s a beautiful metaphor of not being able to predict our futures. This idea of leaves blowing and turning, and uncertainty, became the connecting point for Calder’s moving, turning mobiles and something that grounds the piece with that turning but hooks into questions that I’m interested in today.
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+ Credits
Waiting for the Sibyl
World premiere: September 11, 2019 at the Teatro Dell’Opera di Roma, Rome.
Concept and Director
William Kentridge
Music Director / Composer
Kyle Shepherd
Associate Director / Choral Composer
Nhlanhla Mahlangu
Costume Designer
Greta Goiris
Set Designer
Sabine Theunissen
Lighting Design
Urs Schönebaum
Projection Design
Žana Marović
Cinematography
Duško Marović SASC
Photography
Stella Olivier
Created and performed by
Kyle Shepherd (Piano)
Nhlanhla Mahlangu (Vocalist | Dancer)
Xolisile Bongwana (Vocalist | Dancer)
Thulani Chauke (Dancer)
Teresa Phuti Mojela (Dancer)
Thandazile ‘Sonia’ Rabede (Dancer)
Ayanda Nhlangothi (Vocalist)
Zandile Hlatshwayo (Vocalist)
Siphiwe Nkabinde (Vocalist)
S’busiso Shozi (Vocalist)
Produced by
THE OFFICE performing arts + film
Toured in association with Quaternaire
Waiting for the Sibyl is co-commissioned by Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and Dramaten – Stockholm.
Sibyl
2020
Single-channel HD video
10 minutes
Music composer
Nhlanhla Mahlangu
Video editor
Žana Marović
Sound
Gavan Eckhart
Singers
Nhlanhla Mahlangu
Xolisile Bongwana
Ayanda Nhlangothi
Zandile Hlatshwayo
Siphiwe Nkabinde
S’busiso Shozi
To What End?
2019
Site specific video installation over multiple screens in Times Square, New York
Video design & construction
Janus Fouché
To What End? was made for Midnight Moment, a project of Times Square Arts
Day Will Break More Than Once
Director
William Kentridge
Composition and choreography
Nhlanhla Mahlangu and Kyle Shepherd
Performers
William Kentridge, Dada Masilo, Ayanda Nhlangothi, Zandile Hlatshwayo, S’busiso Shozi, Siphiwe Nkabinde, Gregory Mabusela, Princess Tshabangu and Xolisile Bongwana
VR editor
Janus Fouché
360 cinematography
EDEN
Sound
SoulFire Studios
Making
I was thinking about the theme of fate and our future and the telling of our future, as the Sibyls did; this meets the work of Alexander Calder; and both of these come together in the material ways of working to make the piece.
The idea of turning leaves into pages, and the pages swirling around, brought together the turning sculptures of Calder, and the pages on which I had been obsessively drawing in the service of making films out of books. Part of the form became the projections of the texts and the drawings in the book and the shadow made in the book by the performer of the Sibyl. Different scenes were added. A scene in the waiting room for the Sibyl. A scene about which is the right decision and which is the wrong one. How do you know which is the chair that will collapse when you sit on it and which is the chair that will support you?
Rehearsals for Waiting for the Sibyl at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, September 2019
Waiting for the Sibyl
Chamber opera
"Waiting for the Sibyl" premiere, Teatro dell'Opera, Rome, September 2019
Photo: Stella Olivier
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Sibyl
Flipbook film
The Moment Has Gone
Site specific video installation, Times Square, New York
"To What End", multiple channel video installation, Times Square, New York, December 2019
Photo: Ka-Man Tse for Times Square Arts
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Photo: Ka-Man Tse for Times Square Arts
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Credits
Waiting for the Sibyl
Concept and Director
William Kentridge
Music Director / Composer
Kyle Shepherd
Associate Director / Choral Composer
Nhlanhla Mahlangu
Costume Designer
Greta Goiris
Set Designer
Sabine Theunissen
Lighting Design
Urs Schönebaum
Projection Design
Žana Marović
Cinematography
Duško Marović SASC
Photography
Stella Olivier
Created and performed by
Kyle Shepherd (Piano)
Nhlanhla Mahlangu (Vocalist | Dancer)
Xolisile Bongwana (Vocalist | Dancer)
Thulani Chauke (Dancer)
Teresa Phuti Mojela (Dancer)
Thandazile ‘Sonia’ Rabede (Dancer)
Ayanda Nhlangothi (Vocalist)
Zandile Hlatshwayo (Vocalist)
Siphiwe Nkabinde (Vocalist)
S’busiso Shozi (Vocalist)
Produced by
THE OFFICE performing arts + film
Toured in association with Quaternaire
Waiting for the Sibyl is co-commissioned by Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and Dramaten – Stockholm.
Sibyl
2020
Single channel HD video
10 minutes
Music composer
Nhlanhla Mahlangu
Video editing
Žana Marović
Sound
Gavan Eckhart
Singers
Nhlanhla Mahlangu
Xolisile Bongwana
Ayanda Nhlangothi
Zandile Hlatshwayo
Siphiwe Nkabinde
S’busiso Shozi
To What End?
2019
Site specific video installation over multiple screens in Times Square, New York
Video design & construction
Janus Fouché
To What End? was made for Midnight Moment, a project of Times Square Arts
Day Will Break More Than Once
Director
William Kentridge
Composition and choreography
Nhlanhla Mahlangu and Kyle Shepherd
Performers
William Kentridge, Dada Masilo, Ayanda Nhlangothi, Zandile Hlatshwayo, S’busiso Shozi, Siphiwe Nkabinde, Gregory Mabusela, Princess Tshabangu and Xolisile Bongwana
VR editor
Janus Fouché
360 cinematography
EDEN
Sound
SoulFire Studios