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Filmed performances

Gates of Hell

Choreography

Fana Tshabalala

Director

Réalisation Centre national de la danse

Collection

CN D – Centre national de la danse

Year of production

2013

From fearful movements to desperate races, Fana Tshabalala dances with darkness. The South-African choreographer, driven by moving and committed gestures, transcends this idea of inner discovery in his “Gates of Hell”, inspired by the figures of the “Gates of Hell” by the sculptor Auguste Rodin.

The choreographer was in residency in France for his piece “Gates of Hell”, a duo presented in February 2012 at Dance Umbrella, followed by the National Arts Festival at Grahamstown, which then resulted in a solo that he himself interprets.

Exceeding all limits, there is the love of discovery. Tirelessly, instinctively, he heads towards the unknown. This place, understood and tamed, is a means of transforming humanity and revolutionising living beings. Often souls only unveil themselves in places where gazes are unseeing and languages foreign. The discovery of others thus becomes the search for oneself, somewhere between vagrancy and the fear of emptiness, so close to the gates of hell …