Nelisiwe Xaba 'Plasticization' Born in Soweto, trained at the Johannesburg Dance Foundation and awarded at Rambert School in Great Britain, Nelisiwe Xaba is both interpreter and choregrapher. Regular dancer for Robyn Orlin since Daddy… until recent Babysitting series, Nelisiwe also worked with plasticians ( Rodney Place ) or with theatre director Sophie Loucachevsky in a play by Copi l'Homosexuel ou la difficulté de s'xsprimer ! (2004). She got involved in the training of a new generation of South-African dancers.
Plasticization and They're looking at me and that's all they think. The two presentations by South-African choregrapher Nelisiwe Xaba take a critic but funny look at our society and relativises clichés about the african body. The first solo Plasticization deals with our materialistic and plastic society. The second solo They're looking at me and that's all they think refers more directly to our perception of the black body. Regular dancer for Robyn Orlin, Nelisiwe Xaba takes a look in a woman light on the great stage of African dance.
