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According to Tim Cr es swell, ‘mobility exists in the same relation to movement as place does to location, and [...] involves a fragile entangle- ment of physical movement, representations and practices (Cresswell, 2011, p. 160). Considering Cresswell’s three aspects of mobility - movement, representations and practices — this chapter will reflect on a self-written, unpublished, autobiographical choreopoem titled Afrocartography: Traces of Places and all points in between. It was written in Cape Town in 2007 in response to the complexities of living and working in the city as a non-South African migrant of Zambian and Zimbabwean extraction. It will consider how the city of Cape Town, as the incubator of the work, can be a place that both attracts and rejects African immigrants, and how this contradictory interplay may have shaped the kind of work that Afrocartography has become. The produc- tion itself, as itinerant as its title suggests, has had showings at the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town1 in 2007; the UNESCO World Festival of Theatre Schools in Barcelona in 2008; at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)2 symposium on Knowledge and Transformation in Stellenbosch in 2008; at the opening of the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) in Cape Town, 2009; and as part of the live performance programme of GIPCA’s Exuberance Project3 in Cape Town in 2012. It has also been performed at the Wits Theatre in Johannesburg and at the Afrovibes Festival in the Netherlands in 2013.
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Kabwe, M.B. (2015). Mobility, Migration and ‘Migritude’ in Afrocartography: Traces of Places and all points in between. In: Fleishman, M. (eds) Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa. Studies in International Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137379344_8
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