Naledi Majola & Andi Colombo

Naledi Majola & Andi Colombo -
Grouping & Ungrouping Forever

Cape Town / Berlin, South Africa

Interdisciplinary Digital Performance

Artists in residence from January t o March 2026

Grouping and Ungrouping Forever is an artistic partnership comprising South African artists Andi Colombo and Naledi Majola, formed in 2019. They work in the discipline of performing arts. This partnership’s primary interest is in performance-making methodologies and so, their praxis consists of interdisciplinary explorations of performance-making, including freewriting, movement improvisations, and Viewpoints. Since 2022, they have been working from a distance with Andi based in Cape Town and Naledi in Berlin.

“Are you ready? Are you ready? It’s Chorus Time.”

“Choruscore” is a term we coined for the essential ingredients of theatrical chorus, including repetition, multi-layering, multi-voice text creation, and the presence of multiple perspectives in one body. We are researching how to sustain cross-border collaboration, using the internet, performance, and media art as a vehicle, and creating a virtual chorus. In this work, the chorus is the site of research. It is a sometimes unified, sometimes self-contradicting body made up of singular parts. How much can the internet hold our ideas and make space for collaboration, and when does it fail us? How can the chorus be a model for inclusiveness and how can we use it to reach the audience too, allowing them to join us in chorus?

Zivanai Matangi