Dada Masilo
Multimedia portrait by Irmela Kästner and Tina Ruisinger
Filmed and photographed at Kampnagel Hamburg, 2014
A portrait of the south African dancer and choreographer Dada Masilo during the companies rehearsal of SWAN LAKE at Kampnagel Hamburg
Dada Masilo is Dancer and Choreographer, born in Soweto, near Johannesburg. With her African interpretation of Swan's Lake she is breaking the classical white Tradition of Ballett. Tina Ruisinger and Irmela Kästner have accompanied her one day during rehearsals with her company for the performance of Swan’s lake in Hamburg Kampnagel in 2014
„.... the greatest challenge was fusing classical ballett and contemporary african dance, classical ballett is very graceful and light and pretty and african dance is loud and into the ground and to find the balance between the two technics meeting and speaking to each other ...“
