Lukhanyiso Skosana
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Lukhanyiso Skosana
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Lukhanyiso
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Actress, performance artist, vocalist and theatre maker, Lukhanyiso Skosana, holds an Advanced Diploma in Theatre and is currently completing her Honours degree at UCT. Under the guidance of Dr Sara Matchett, Fitzmaurice voice-work, the Sanskrit system of “rasa”, body mapping and free writing became the foundation of her performance practice,. Lukhanyiso is an ancestral being, inhabiting the physical and metaphysical realm. Their performance work engages the body as site for generating images and narratives, while music sediments the ephemeral nature of their practice.
Lukhanyiso has performed at the ITFOK Festival (2018), National Arts Festival (2018) and University of Stellenbosch Woordfees (2019). Her work for Rehane Abrahams’s award-winning Womb of Fire won her a Fleur du Cap Award for Best Original Musical Score and Performance in 2019. She performed at the Institute for Creative Arts Live Art Festival in 2018 and 2019 and was an ICA Online Fellow during 2022, debuting a short film, The Exorcism of Mary Magdalene: A Sexual Resurrection. She presented The Exorcism of Mary Magadalene II: A Divine Intervention (2021) for the ICA Live Art Arcade, the National Arts Festival and the Turbine Art Fair (2021). Also in 2022 she produced the musical score for Isimo and Dwala Lam, short films by Sethembile Msezane, and she is currently participating in Manyano Media’s Black Girl Live Fellowship (2022). She is Black. Queer. Womxn. Femme. Radical. Godded. uNdlunkulu. Namaslay…
Lukhanyiso has performed at the ITFOK Festival (2018), National Arts Festival (2018) and University of Stellenbosch Woordfees (2019). Her work for Rehane Abrahams’s award-winning Womb of Fire won her a Fleur du Cap Award for Best Original Musical Score and Performance in 2019. She performed at the Institute for Creative Arts Live Art Festival in 2018 and 2019 and was an ICA Online Fellow during 2022, debuting a short film, The Exorcism of Mary Magdalene: A Sexual Resurrection. She presented The Exorcism of Mary Magadalene II: A Divine Intervention (2021) for the ICA Live Art Arcade, the National Arts Festival and the Turbine Art Fair (2021). Also in 2022 she produced the musical score for Isimo and Dwala Lam, short films by Sethembile Msezane, and she is currently participating in Manyano Media’s Black Girl Live Fellowship (2022). She is Black. Queer. Womxn. Femme. Radical. Godded. uNdlunkulu. Namaslay…
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