Wild Woman – Part I: The Bone Collector
In Wild Woman – Part I: The Bone Collector, Princess Isatu Hassan Bangura descends into an underworld both mythical and physical, where identity, body and voice disintegrate before being rebuilt again from scratch.
Inspired by the character La Loba from Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ “Women Who Run With the Wolves”, this Bone Woman collects lost bones and sings them back to life. Not out of nostalgia, but necessity: what has been forgotten must be recalled once again.
The performance starts from a break, with origins, with the maternal body, with ancestral memory. Out of this void an intense process of disintegration, confrontation and transformation unfolds. Wild Woman – Part I: The Bone Collector reveals rebirth not as something soft, but as a process of deconstruction: a descent through chaos, fury and silence, in which the self is stripped down to the bare bones.
Grounded in African spiritual traditions such as Vodun and borne by a hybrid world of sounds made up of Afro-futurism, Afro-punk, metal and rap, a ritual space is created in which past, body and imagination coincide. Live music, trance, physical exhaustion and visual projections draw the audience into an experience that is not just watched, but lived.
A collective confrontation with what has been lost and what continues to exist in the body. A raw, poetic search for voice, body and soul in times of personal and social crisis.
Wild Woman – Part I: The Bone Collector is not simply a story of healing, but of what comes before: breaking, remembering, and reassembling a self that never fully disappeared.
Dates:
2026
September 1, Heerlen
September 17-19, Amsterdam
December 7, Venlo
2027
February 25 and 26, Rotterdam
February 28, Nijmegen
March 3, Haarlem
March 4, Arnhem
March 6, Eindhoven
March 11, Den Haag
March 12, Den Bosch
March 13, Leiden
March 20, Amsterdam
March 21, Utrecht
March 25, Groningen
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