Hands | CENTRE OUTSIDE THE CENTRE | BROWN UNIVERSITY

How can the body become an instrument for percussion? For world-building? In the aptly titled Hands, musician and performer Micca Manganye places his body inside the Pepper’s Ghost mechanism to generate playful and profound worlds of sound and activity.
A blend of live performance and video compositing and
projection, Hands sees Manganye interacting with the ghost image of his own hands as he mirrors their musicality. There is also the live percussion behind the screen, generated by Manganye using nothing but an empty jar.
Altogether, Hands is an example of the kind of engaging, short-form musical and performance-based work that can be achieved in the Pepper’s Ghost with a single performer and a simple premise.
CONCEPTUALISER & PERFORMER | Micca Manganye
FOUNDER OF THE CENTRE | William Kentridge
CO-FOUNDER & DIRECTOR | Bronwyn Lace
MOMENTEUR-THE SO ACADEMY | Athena Mazarakis
HOLDER & ASSOC. PRODUCER | Dimakatso Motholo
DIRECTOR CINEMATOGRAPHY & EDITOR | Noah Cohen
EDITOR & COMPOSITOR | Octavia Sonyane
SOUND DESIGNER & ENGINEER | Zain Vally
ASSISTANT SOUND ENGINEER | Jack Garrett
WRITER & COMMUNICATIONS | David Mann
PROP & COSTUME DESIGNER | Nthabiseng Malaka
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT | Iris Courchaine
PRODUCTION MANAGER | Brendon Boyd
STAGE MANAGER | Meghan Williams
LIGHTING TECHNICIANS | Audrey Visscher,
Fred Young, Gabriel Goldman, Chris Griffin &
Alexander Foley
ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE | Bukhosibakhe Khoza
PRODUCED BY | THE OFFICE performing arts + film
Rachel Chanoff, Laurie Cearley, Bruna d’Avila, Elly Obeney
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
Brown Arts Institute at Brown University
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