The clatter of clothes pegs disrupts the sanctity of the ballet. Powerful colour symbolism and uncompromising demystification turns the juxtaposition of European and African vocabulary of music and movement into mutual empowerment. Already in 2007, Mamela Nyamza reflected on her life as a mother, lesbian and artist in her highly praised autobiographical solo Hatched. Together with nine ballet dancers, one singer and a musician, she is now pushing her confrontation of identity and belonging, gender binarism, tradition and artistic expression further in Hatched Ensemble. Loosely inspired by Allan Kaprow (‘The line between art and life should be kept as fluid and perhaps as indistinct as possible’), the South African choreographer and activist is calling on the audience to fracture ascriptions and consider their own states of belonging.