Wild Woman – Part I: The Bone Collector
Motion design, art direction, concept, live show
Visuals created for a theatre performance by Princess Isatu Hassan Bangura.
Rooted in the ancient myth of La Loba, the Bone Woman who walks the desert collecting the scattered bones of wolves and sings them back to life, Wild Woman is a physical, visual and musical ceremony of resurrection. Drawing from African spiritual traditions including Vodun/Vodou, and driven by Afro-futurist soundscapes, metal, rap and ritual, the performance conjures a world that is simultaneously mythic and dystopian.
The visuals were shot on location in Sierra Leone and processed through analogue video synthesizers, distorting time, memory and image into something that feels both ancient and unresolved. The footage moves between document and fever dream, between the earthly, the ceremonial and the digital.
Part I will tour in season 27–28.
O.a. concept, tekst en performance Princess Isatu Hassan Bangura | Soundscape design Edis Pajazetovic | Drummer Ruben van Asselt | Lichtontwerp Jan Groenland | Scenografie Morgana Machado Marques | Kostuumontwerp Tricia Mokosi | Video ontwerp Stan Smeets | Artistiek advies Cherish Menzo | Ontwerp poppen Fay van Erp en Jelena Bondt (Theater Rotterdam) | Productie Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam, ViaZuid en Likeminds | Coproductie Parkstad Limburg Theaters en Frascati | Met dank aan Milou van Duijnhoven, Leela May Stockholm, Monica Janssen (Wisselkind)