Teatro de la Laboral

Robyn Orlin irritated Apartheid with her performances. Nelson Mandela’s South Africa is irritated by the performances of Robyn Orlin. Little has changed then, that she should continue to boast the title of (roughly translated) “chronic boil on the butt”.
What is it that Orlin does on stage that bothers everyone so much? She creates visions – so unfriendly that they verge on the ferocious – about the difficult, complex reality of her country. To this end she mixes, shakes and blends in music, dance, text, photography, plastic arts, recorded images…Thus, her work becomes a theatrical reality, so personal and unique, so original, that it leaves little room for indifference.

Walking next to our shoes…, her latest work, is put together on the platform of a musical concept and choreography marked by the delicacy and harmony of Iscathamiya. The origin of this style of music and dance, characterized by the chiefly male a cappella chorus work, can be traced to the XIX century, when the workers of South African mines gathered to sing and dance “on tip toe” , the idea being not to disturb the camp’s security guards with their frenetic Zulu dances.

In March of 2009, Robyn Orlin received the most important award conferred by France for merit in Arts. Her works includes pieces with such suggestive, even Dadaistic titles as: If you can’t change the world, change your curtains or If the whole population of China jumped up and down at the same time, the Earth would move.