Misha Maseka

Misha Maseka is a singer, performer, filmmaker, and researcher. Starting her career in opera and theatre, she studied under Dr Janet Youngdahl at the University of Lethbridge, which led her to perform across Canada, the United States, and Germany (Calgary Philharmonic, Theatre Calgary, Square One Media, Lyric Studio Weimar, Arts Commons, Banff Centre). Notable performances: Sarah in Ragtime Broadway Revival Concert (Werklund Centre, 2022), Tynomi Banks: Queen of the Orchestra Tour (Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, 2023), Flowering Self in Song of Manyselves Opera (cSpace King Edward, 2024). This heavily influences her use of sound and spectacle in her ultimate study of the mundane, intimacy, heritage and history in her screen work. Notably seen in: award-winning “Ebony”, a soundless documentary on contemporary Deaf theatre artist, Ebony Gooden; short film “Not That Deep”, a poetic narrative on grief and memory, winner of two Berlin Short Film Festival awards and dance film “Sweeter Blue”.

Founding her project-based production collective, Village Girls, expanded the work to immersive technologies across sound, stage and screen. This solidified during her master’s degree at the Royal College of Art, where she focused on spatial sound, performance and immersive theatre and cinema, exhibiting a large-scale projection installation work in a series titled “All the Beautiful People”, which later won the L. Sargaent Lenz Prize Award. Her work has been shown at Frameless London, Somerset House, Oxford University, Contemporary Calgary, Frameless London, SOAS, Villa Romana and more. When not creating, she continues research in the history and evolution of music and performing arts in the Lobito Corridor.