Afrovibes: Double bill Cash Cow / Black

Name: Afrovibes: Double bill Cash Cow / Black - Lorin Sookool (ZA) / Oulouy (SP/IVK)
Start: 2025-10-09T22:00:00+02:00
Location: Frascati, Amsterdam

Lorin Sookool (ZA) / Oulouy (SP/IVK)

Thu 9 Oct ’25 22:00

A performance about post-colonial expectations and a performance about the history of the freedom movement.

Thu 9 Oct ’25

22:00

Thu 9 Oct ’25

22:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 2

Tickets

In Double bill Cash Cow / Black, one performance uses humor and discomfort to expose post-colonial expectations and the cruelty of consumption, while the other explores the history of the freedom movement.

Cash Cow - Lorin Sookool (ZA)

In an intriguing dance and theatre solo, performer Lorin Sookool exposes the cruelty in which we often use sentient beings for our consumption. Lorin does this by imagining herself as a cow waiting to be slaughtered. She makes the connection with the female body that is equally often used for consumption. With humour, discomfort and engaging the audience, she reflects on capitalism and asks whether the post-colonial expectations of the African dance body can change.

Black - Oulouy (SP/IVK)

Violence, emancipation, pain and self-empowerment highlight the reality of being black in today's world. In Black, Ivorian choreographer and dancer Oulouy embodies the struggle for recognition, equality and respect of black people. According to him, these concepts are stored as memories in his own body, which he uses to confront and move. He does this with several major urban streetdance styles of Africa and the African diaspora in the USA: Coupé-Décalé, Azonto, Ndomboló, Afrohouse and Krump, supported with appropriate music. With all these styles, he depicts the history of the freedom movement.

In his varied performance, he regularly refers to important and recent events such as the #blacklivesmatter movement. In doing so, he creates unrest and discomfort, but also the potential to influence the world. In short: an empowering performance about overcoming injustice, oppression and discrimination.

Duration Cash Cow: 25 mins.
Duration Black: 30 mins.
Note: Black contains footage and audio documenting police brutality and racial injustice

Part of

Afrovibes Festival 2025

Credits

Cash Cow
choreography Lorin Sookool performer Sunga Konji, Lorin Sookool light Dara Beth

Black
choreography & performance Oulouy light Manuel Ordenavia

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About the makers

Lorin Sookool (she/her/they/them) is a South Afrikan contemporary artist with a foundation in dance. She won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Dance (2023) and received the Pina Bausch Fellowship for Choreography (2021).

Her work follows a process-based approach that is intuitive in nature and emergent in design, searching for the relationship between personal and collective themes; thereby becoming a reflective, reflexive, subject-centred practice. Lorin often explores complex South African socio-political themes, with a focus on racial, gender, systemic and institutionalized violence.

Her professional trajectory began at The Playhouse Company (Durban, KwaZulu-Natal) and The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative (Mpumalanga). She has worked with multiple choreographers and residency bodies and performanced in Mozambique, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada and the UK. She is currently a Master of Arts candidate at the University of Cape Town, through a scholarship from the Institute for Creative Arts. Her first publication, Dala What You Must: A Manifesto, will form part of Queer Dance vol II (University of Michigan), will be published early 2026.

Born in the Ivory Coast and based in Spain, Oulouy has previously performed in venues such as Perelman Performing Arts Center in New York, Bluma Appel in Toronto and the Fabrik Potsdam in Germany. He is known not only as a choreographer, dancer and artistic director. His master classes are sold out within hours worldwide. With Black, Oulouy has been selected as an Aerowaves25 Artist for the Spring Forward Festival.