The Visitors: von Constanza Macras / DorkyPark

In the organizer's words:

Star choreographer Constanza Macras creates a captivating performance between dance and acting with young South African performers.

"The Visitors" delves into the world of slasher films, a subgenre of horror film with its own narrative codes and aesthetic style. The protagonists of these films are teenagers. Without parents or other adult helpers, they have to fight the monsters alone. The killers are usually the result of the horrors of the past: "The past will come back to haunt you", they say.
In "The Visitors", these themes are highlighted in a South African context: The absence of parents takes on a particular connotation as a result of the state-orchestrated destruction of family structures during apartheid. In addition, we see the "horror" in everyday situations such as dealing with bureaucracy and corruption.
Through non-linear narratives and humorous associations, the young protagonists attempt to free themselves from the grip of these old monsters, to shake off the relentless return of the past and create new spaces for thought and hope.

A co-production of Constanza Macras I DorkyPark, The Windybrow Arts Centre and Market Theatre, Ruhrtriennale and Kampnagel. Supported by the International Coproduction Fund of the Goethe-Institut and by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK
Coproduction Fund for Dance, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.