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!
  

Jazzart Dance Joint Open Class Schedule:

DAY..............TIME..............TEACHER

Monday........17h30 - 19h00........Jackie Manyaapelo

Tuesday.......17h30 - 19h00........Ina Wichterich

Wednesday...17h30 - 19h00........Shaun Oelf

Thursday......17h30 - 19h00........Ananda Fuchs

Friday..........17h30 - 19h00........Refiloe Mogoje

Saturday:

(age 5 - 7)...........10h00 - 10h45.......Adam Malebo & Charlie van Rooyen

(age 8 - 10).........11h00 - 12h00.......Shaun Oelf & Thabisa Dinga

(Teenagers)........12h00 - 13h00......Grant van Ster & Phindile Kula

Venue : Room 351, Artscape Theatre Centre, Foreshore

Enroll at room 352 before class

For more info, contact Pat on 021 410 9828 or email dance@jazzart.co.za

Jazzart's Dance Joint Student Concert

As some of you may know, Jazzart Dance Theatre hosts open classes every evening of the week and saturday classes for kids and teenagers. At the end of each year, those students get the opportunity to perform on a professional stage (for some this may be the very first time!).

Jazzart Dance Theatre presents the...

DANCE JOINT STUDENT CONCERT 2010

Artscape Arena

2 - 5 Dec 2010

The students who attend these classes are of all ages. Some have been dancing for many years and have been on a professional stage before, whereas others have never danced a day in their lives...sometimes there are women who are 60 years old!

Another great factor about this production is that the Jazzart trainees are the ones who run the whole production. From presenting, costume design, and backstage work to the sound, lighting, and stage managing...everything is done by them. Some of them also grab the opportunity to create and showcase their own pieces (as well as the teachers of the open classes and the Jazzart Company dancers).

The show dates are as follows:

Thurs 2nd Dec @ 20h15

Fri 3rd Dec @ 20h15

Sat 4th @ 20h15

Sun 5th @ 18h00

Book at Computicket or Artscape Dial-a-Seat 021 421 7695

Jazzart performs in Beautyfull

Following its resounding success in 2008 and 2009, Beautyfull, choreographed and directed by Ina Wichterich, showed at the Baxter Theatre last week.
Jazzart’s very own newly appointed artistic director, Jackie Manyaapelo, as well as company dancers Refiloe Mogoje and Phindile Kula, featured in this stunning piece of art. Also featured in this collaboration was leading South African integrated dance initiative Remix Dance Company and South African Circle of Dance Academy.

“Beautyfull disarms you very easily with its lighthearted tone, opening you up for its genuinely moving undertones. You don't exactly forget that you are watching differently-abled performers, but it stops being all that remarkable. All you see are dancers enthralled by their art.This production deserves more than condescension. It demands audiences.” – Zane Henry

"In one word: beautiful. Go watch Beautyfull at the Baxter, it is just that and then so much more. The most wonderful declaration of love." - Klaus Warshkow

To see some reviews and writeups about Beautyfull, follow the links below:
http://www.artlink.co.za/news_article.htm?contentID=25708
http://www.overtone.co.za/event/theater/beautyfull/13-oct-2010
http://www.tonight.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5688398&fSectionId=378&fSetId=251

Jazzart company dancers perform in Jay Pather's "Qaphela Ceasar"

The Company dancers just completed a production will Jay Pather called "Qaphela Ceasar". This took place straight after Jazzart's company season iHaw' Elisha. They must be exhausted, but they did a great job!!

The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts invites you to Jay Pather's
QAPHELA CAESAR!
A multimedia massacre of William Shakespeare's Julius CaesarPresented by the Gordon Institute For Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA)
Featuring Siwela Sonke Dance Company, Mwenya Kabwe, Mark Hoeben, Jazzart Dance Company, the UCT School of Dance and singers from the UCT Opera SchoolBased in a world of power struggles and politics, Shakespeare’s classic text about honour patriotism and friendship is reworked by Pather and the company to create this interdisciplinary adaptation. Relocating the characters into a South African context, Qaphela Caesar explores betrayal, prophesy, the power of political structures and the position of the individual within it. Performed in Cape Town’s historic City Hall, the performance integrates the design and history of the site to create a rich and multi-layered collaborative work which incorporates dance, spoken text, multimedia and opera. The work is an onslaught on the senses and re-examines the themes of corruption and political power from a modern African perspective. The deconstructed style of the work allows the audience to travel through 14 rooms, alternates between installation, performance art and dance, and incorporates the architecture of the City Hall into a unique and multi-layered performance.

DATE : 18 - 22 September 2010

TIME : 20h00

VENUE : Cape Town City Hall

Jazzart Company in iHaw' Elisha

Review by Jay Williams on iHaw' Elisha

The setting was suitably dark, forboding, surreal. A dimly-lit checker-top table with players/partners/roleplayers/the collective/the community; seated on either side.
Suddenly, still seated, they morph into life; characteristic chesspiece forms displayed through postures of the upper body, arms and head. The traditional game opens as a "pawn" moves to centrestage. The others follow in turn, specific, energy brimming, reflecting the emotion of postures; of discussion, of courtship, of ritual in the game, as in life.

The dancers costumed in effecient jeans-like trousers and tank tops (ladies) or bare chested (men) overlaid with bodypaint, earth and grey-tone layered merging bands. Lighting selection and effects maintained ambience and surreality very well.
The rules of the game cycle a few times; attraction, flirtation, seduction; conflict, rejection emerging with mesmerising nuance. A distinct edginess amidst electro music and soundscapes of loud jangling, staccato, bassy rhythms driving on and on. Moments of stillness were atmospheric to a knife edge and clearly showed the high standard of training of the dancers. Some dynamic moments directly on the "chessboard" table and others on the stagefloor helped to re-focus audience attention. Bodies moving in sometimes alluring, sometimes sexy, sometimes animalistic rhythm. Fluid, precise even militaristic group movements break into couples, where the performers took their bodies to the physical and emotional limits. The soloists were superb and all the cast were a joy to watch. The themes are thoroughly internalised, kept me on the edge of my seat from start to finish. The endgame emerges with powerful thrust.
I loved it.

Jay Williams