Jazzart Dance Theatre: Who's in what...

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Who's in what...

The list of choreographers and pieces that will be performed in the Dance Joint Student Concert will be as follows (in no particular order):

Monday evening class students…choreographed by Jackie Manyaapelo (Jazzart’s Artistic Director)
Tuesday evening class students…choreographed by Gordon Andries (Jazzart resident teacher/choreographer & Outreach director) & Mziyanda Mancam (Jazzart resident teacher/choreographer & Outreach , assisted by Sinazo Bokolo Brunz (Jazzart trainee)
Wednesday evening class students…choreographed by Shaun Oelf (Jazzart company dancer)
Thursday evening class students…choreographed by Ananda Fuchs (Jazzart resident teacher/choreographer)
Friday evening class students…choreographed by Refiloe Mogoje (Jazzart company dancer), assisted by Mandla Sibeko (Jazzart trainee)
Saturday students:
(5 – 7 years) - choreographed by Adam Malebo & Charlie van Rooyen
(Jazzart trainees)
(8 – 10 years) – choreographed by Shaun Oelf & Thabisa Dinga
(Jazzart company dancers)
(Teenagers) – choreographed by Grant van Ster & Phindile Kula
Trainee tap piece, choreographed by Nkosinathi Sangweni (Jazzart company dancer) & Mziyanda Mancam (resident teacher/choreographer & outreach assistant)
Trainee women, choreographed by Ciara Barron (Jazzart trainee)
Collaboration with kids form Riverlands & Klipheuwel, choreographed by Gordon Andries (resident teacher/choreographer & outreach director) & Tamaryn Schultz (Jazzart trainee)
Students form Saturday classes, choreographed by Elvis Sibeko (Jazzart trainee)
Students from Bonnytown, choreographed by Mbovu Malinga (Jazzart trainee)
Duet featuring a Jazzart trainee & an evening class student, choreographed by Luke de Kock (Jazzart trainee)
Mzo Gaza will once again be presenting a piece with some of his students, and if it’s anything like last year’s piece…it will be amazing to see.
Spanish, Latin, Ballroom….TO BE CONFIRMED!!

So keep watching this space!

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September (Company) Season - iHaw' Elisha

This September, Artscape Theatre plays host to the premiere of iHaw’ Elisha, choreographed by Sbonakaliso Ndaba for Jazzart Dance Theatre. This “theatrical tribal potion” was first seen by Johannesburg audiences at the 2010 FNB Dance Umbrella as Ndaba’s commissioned work-in-progress, ‘1st Draught’.

iHaw’ Elisha traces the chess game that is life, playing it back as snatches: our ways of seeing and doing, our gestures, our natures, our vices, our virtues. As we peel off our outside layers, we are left bare in the real world: tender, exposed and beautiful.

An exploration of the complexities of humanity, this work was praised as ‘powerful’, ‘striking’ and ‘hypnotic’. Ndaba and the Jazzart dancers weave magic for Cape Town audiences once more as they recreate their ritual with “… images and sounds – of bodies engaged in such focussed intensity, moments of incredible calm and stillness and moments of grinding speed, it doesn’t seem possible a human can move that fast.” – Tammy Ballantyne: Artspoken

National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, ARTSCAPE, National Arts Council, Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport, GrandWest Cape Culture and Heritage Foundation, British Council, Chiappini Charitable Trust, Rand Merchant Bank, Distell, City of Cape Town.

Venue:
Artscape Theatre

Dates:
Fri 3 Sept – 20h15
Sat 4 Sept – 15h00
Sat 4 Sept – 20h15
Sun 5 Sept – 18h00
Thurs 9 Sept – 20h15
Fri 10 Sept – 20h15
Sat 11 Sept – 15h00
Sat 11 Sept – 20h15
Sun 12 Sept – 18h00

Ticket price:
R50 throughout
R20 per ticket for block booking of 20 or more

Bookings can be made at Computicket or Artscape Dial-a-seat 021 421 7695

DANSCAPE 2010

Jazzart Dance Theatre this year plays host to youth arts organisations which have been integral to the enduring success of DANSCAPE since it began in 1999. The Jazzart team, in conjunction with these young artists, will create a montage of works that celebrate their contributions, and the contributions of all those who have guided Jazzart on its journey to this point.

Directed by Jacqueline Manyaapelo and featuring CAFDA 34/10, Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre, Tertia Kindo Arts Project, Jikeleza Dance Project, Vadhini Indian Arts Academy, and WCED Arts and Culture Focus Schools, Danscape 2010 will offer a taste of the future wonder she will inspire with the living legacy that is Jazzart Dance Theatre.

Supported by National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, ARTSCAPE, Department of Cultural Affairs & Sport, Distell, GrandWest Cape Culture & Heritage Foundation, National Arts Council, Rand Merchant Bank, Chiappini Charitable Trust, Debbie Goodman Bursary Fund, Sello Leshope and Jazzart Adopt-a-Dancer patrons.

Artscape Theatre
22 - 25 July 2010

PARTLY GOD

Following a number of successful Jazzart colloraborations with theatre directors like Mark Fleishman of Magnet Theatre, eminent South African theatre director, writer and producer Lara Foot Newton was engaged to direct a multi-disciplinary repertoire work that will premiere at Artscape in Cape Town on 16 October 2009.
The production will centre on research conducted by Lara and her team into conflict and violence. They will explore that which is unspoken. A silent language which begins to occupy the space between words and conveys lived memory ... the language of speechless terror. The production encompasses a landscape of reality and violence as well as a dreamscape, a magic space where everything is possible.
PARTLY GOD offers a dreamscape of poetry, music and dance. The narrative is seen through a boy soldier ,who befriends a young man searching for his father. Their relationship is co-dependent and delicate, and the boy finally offers a path to enlightenment.
Empathy then allows for transcendence which, in turn, offers a state of grace, thus supporting the notion, that we are all - PARTLY GOD.