China Shanghai International Arts Festival
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We Wear Our Wheels With Pride...
West Bund Museum · Shanghai
6 Nov 2026
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Production
Dance-Theatre Performance
We Wear Our Wheels With Pride... – West Bund Museum, Shanghai
- Date
- Friday, 6 November 2026
- Time
- 16:00
- Duration
- 01:10
- Venue
- West Bund Museum
- City
- Shanghai
- Organisation
- China Shanghai International Arts Festival
About this event
Robyn Orlin created and choreographed the work as a tribute to South African rickshaw pullers of the 1970s. The production combines dance and song, drawing on the ornate decorations worn on the pullers' heads and their light, dance-like steps to create a distinct rickshaw dance. MIDM dancers draw on Zulu traditions, with distinctive costumes, ritualized group movements, and invitations for the audience to dance. The score by Anelisa Stuurman and Yogin Sullaphen combines slam poetry, local Khoisan traditions, and contemporary music, while voices, costumes, lighting, video, and movement are interwoven.
Cast & creative
- S
Dancer
Sunnyboy Motau - O
Dancer
Oscar Buthelezi - A
Dancer
Afikamabiyase Ziqubu - L
Dancer
Lesego Dihemo - S
Dancer
Sbusiso Gumede - T
Dancer
Tshepo Mohlabane - A
Vocalist
Anelisa “Annalyzer” Stuurman - Y
Original-score Performer
Yogin Sullaphen - R
Choreographer
Robyn Orlin 
Lighting designer
Romain de Lagarde- E
Video Creator
Eric Perroys - B
Costume designer
Birgit Neppl - E
Video designer
Eric Perroys - T
Tour Manager
Thabo Pule - J
General Manager
Jean Marc L'Hostis - J
Stage manager
Jordan Azincot
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