{"id":81,"date":"2017-11-09T22:09:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T22:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.dustysheldon.com\/?post_type=person&p=81"},"modified":"2018-04-30T16:48:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:48:45","slug":"mwenya-b-kabwe","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/mwenya-b-kabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Mwenya B. Kabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mwenya B. Kabwe<\/b>\u00a0is a Zambian-born, South African-based theatre maker, performer, educator, creative facilitator and mother of two. Her original work includes:\u00a0Please Do Not Leave Your Baggage Unattended<\/i>\u00a0(the Drill Hall, Johannesburg 2007);\u00a0for nomads who have considered settling when the travel is enuf <\/i>(<\/span>Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance, Cape Town 2007);\u00a027 Windows, 4 Doors, 2 Taps<\/i>\u00a0(Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance, 2010);\u00a0Migritude’s Echo<\/i>\u00a0(Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance, 2011);\u00a0Afrocartography: Traces of Places and all points in between <\/i>(<\/span>The Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts, Afrovibes Festival, Wits Main Theatre\u00a02008, 2009, 2013, 2014);\u00a021<\/em> Wandah!<\/i>\u00a0 (The Market Lab, Johannesburg 2017);\u00a0A Zambian Space Odyssey\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Jacaranda Time\u00a0<\/i>with Tegan Bristow and Cameron Harris (The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg 2017). Kabwe is also one of the seven 2007 Spier Contemporary winners for a collaborative performance work titled\u00a0Unyawo Alunampumlo<\/i>\u00a0–\u00a0The Foot Has no Nose <\/i>(<\/span>with Chuma Sopotela and Kemang Wa Lehulere).\u00a0Kabwe\u2019s publications include\u00a0Transgressing Boundaries: Making Theatre from an Afropolitan Perspective<\/i>\u00a0(South African Theatre Journal, 2007<\/span>)<\/span>;\u00a0Untethered in a Performance of Afrohybrid\u00a0<\/i>(Studio Museum, Harlem New York, 2008);\u00a0Afrophobia\u00a0<\/i><\/span>Exposed<\/i>\u00a0(<\/span>Rootz Africa Magazine, 2008);\u00a0A Tea Party for Unholy Ghosts<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(Art South Africa, 2011);\u00a0<\/span>Performing Africa Differently: A re-imagining of Adrienne Kennedy\u2019s Funnyhouse of Negro<\/i>\u00a0(Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 2: Diaspora Representations & the Interweaving of Cultures, 2013) and\u00a0Mobility, Migration and ‘Migritude’ in Afrocartography: Traces of Places and all points in between\u00a0<\/i>(Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa: Cape of Flows<\/i>, 2015). She currently teaches at Wits University School of Arts in the Department of Theatre and Performance.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mwenya B. Kabwe\u00a0is a Zambian-born, South African-based theatre maker, performer, educator, creative facilitator and mother of two. Her original work includes:\u00a0Please Do Not Leave Your Baggage Unattended\u00a0(the Drill Hall, Johannesburg 2007);\u00a0for nomads who have considered settling when the travel is enuf (Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance, Cape Town 2007);\u00a027 Windows, 4 Doors, 2 Taps\u00a0(Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance, 2010);\u00a0Migritude’s Echo\u00a0(Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance, 2011);\u00a0Afrocartography: Traces of Places and all points in between (The Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts, Afrovibes Festival, Wits Main Theatre\u00a02008, 2009, 2013, 2014);\u00a021 Wandah!\u00a0 (The Market Lab, Johannesburg 2017);\u00a0A Zambian Space Odyssey\u00a0and\u00a0Jacaranda Time\u00a0with Tegan Bristow and Cameron Harris (The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg 2017). Kabwe is also one of the seven 2007 Spier Contemporary winners for a collaborative performance work titled\u00a0Unyawo Alunampumlo\u00a0–\u00a0The Foot Has no Nose (with Chuma Sopotela and Kemang Wa Lehulere).\u00a0Kabwe\u2019s publications include\u00a0Transgressing Boundaries: Making Theatre from an Afropolitan Perspective\u00a0(South African Theatre Journal, 2007);\u00a0Untethered in a Performance of Afrohybrid\u00a0(Studio Museum, Harlem New York, 2008);\u00a0Afrophobia\u00a0Exposed\u00a0(Rootz Africa Magazine, 2008);\u00a0A Tea Party for Unholy Ghosts\u00a0(Art South Africa, 2011);\u00a0Performing Africa Differently: A re-imagining of Adrienne Kennedy\u2019s Funnyhouse of Negro\u00a0(Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 2: Diaspora Representations & the Interweaving of Cultures, 2013) and\u00a0Mobility, Migration and ‘Migritude’ in Afrocartography: Traces of Places and all points in between\u00a0(Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa: Cape of Flows, 2015). She currently teaches at Wits University School of Arts in the Department of Theatre and Performance.\u00a0","protected":false},"featured_media":260,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}