Hyena Man | CENTRE OUTSIDE THE CENTRE | BROWN UNIVERSITY

It’s said that spotted hyenas roam within the walled Ethiopian city of Harar. Tending to them are the “hyena men” who engage in the practice of hand-feeding the hyenas raw meat as a means of transferring and ridding themselves of negative spirits.
In Hyena Man, Tony Miyambo, Teresa Phuti Mojela, and Vusi Mdoyi take this practice as the starting point for a performance-based experiment.
Spirituality, physicality, and the shrill sound of hyena’s laughing in the distance converge to put forward a work that draws on the analogue potentials of live performance inside the Pepper’s Ghost mechanism.
For Miyambo, the performance is a letting - a means of releasing the bad energy through the ritualistic mode of performance that’s unique to the Pepper’s Ghost.
CONCEPTUALISER & PERFORMER | Tony Miyambo
DIRECTORS | Athena Mazarakis & Tony Miyambo
PERFORMERS | Teresa Phuti Mojela & Vusi Mdoyi
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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