collaboration between P J Sabbagha and Sylvaine Strike, with music is composed by Concord Nkabinde. The Market Theatre Saturday, September 6 @ 20:00 & Sunday, September 7 @ 14:30 CARGO: Precious premiered at the National Arts Festival 2014 as a Dance Forum production. A collaboration between P J Sabbagha, choreographer from Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative and Sylvaine Strike, Director of the Fortune Cookie Theatre Company, the music is composed by Concord Nkabinde. Most are familiar with how the Saartjie Baartman story ends: her remains repatriated to South Africa, nearly two centuries after her body had been dissected and bottled in formaldehyde, in an experiment said to have been done “in the name of science”. CARGO: Precious explores the untold part of Saartjie’s extraordinary story: her time spent on a ship between the two continents of Africa and Europe, having been promised a life of freedom, fame and fortune as the subject of fascination in a travelling show called The Hottentot Venus. Loaded as cargo onto a ship leaving Cape Town, she was the only woman on board. This is the imagined content of her eight weeks at sea.
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