Keratoconus | CENTRE OUTSIDE THE CENTRE | BROWN UNIVERSITY

Many of the ideas for Tony Miyambo’s performances either come from his dreams, or are informed by his lived experience. Keratoconus is a work that combines both.
Featuring Miyambo and Kai Thomani Tshikosi, who plays the part of the optometrist, Keratoconus makes use of live performance and video projection to present a rich, layered, and unsettling performance.
Keratoconus emerges from Miyambo’s experience of undergoing surgery for a corneal transplant, and a dream-like vision of a white, dishevelled cowboy sitting in his hospital room. Following his recovery, Miyambo’s body began rejecting the tissue, and he later discovered that the donor tissue was, in fact, from America.
So emerges a short, sharp and rich performance about the myriad interpretations and realities of foreign bodies, transplants, identity, resistance, ownership, ancestry and the body.
CONCEPTUALISER | Tony Miyambo
PERFORMERS | Tony Miyambo & Kai Thomani Tshikosi
WRITER | Tony Miyambo
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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