The South African artist William Kentridge’s performance piece “The Head and the Load,” currently at the Park Avenue Armory, is by turns dumbfounding, eviscerating, and beautiful. It ...

On a stage stretching 50 meters wide, an ensemble of actors, dancers, and musicians come together to explore the forgotten history of Africans in the First World War. Acclaimed South African artist ...

Come January 2017, and the head-load workers of Valiyangadi will not carry food grains and consumer goods weighing more than 50 kilograms. Currently, the workers have been loading and unloading sacks ...

William Kentridge's interdisciplinary large-scale theatre piece, The Head and the Load, concerns itself with how Africans were used by colonial powers to fight for them in the first world war.

Since the start of the Weekly Mail, where I worked as a trainee in the 1980s, and to which William Kentridge gifted the artistic illustrations to its film and book festivals, he has defined how I ...

Seeking fulfilment of their various demands, including implementation of minimum wages for head load workers, implementation welfare schemes and gratuity for head load workers over the age of 60 and ...

William Kentridge's large-scale theatre work, The Head & The Load, will be seen on the African continent for the first time. This exploration of Africa's role in the First World War illuminates the ...

New York and Brooklyn, N.Y. In the U.S. this season, a prevalent theatrical commemoration of the end of World War I has been Kevin Puts’s opera “Silent Night,” a sentimental rendering of the 1914 ...

As he stepped onto the specially constructed stage in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall to welcome the audience to the premiere of his major new work The Head and the Load, last night (11 July), William ...

KOCHI: As the city counts down to the third edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB), an important agreement has been inked between the Kochi Biennale Foundation and unions representing head load ...