(Young
dancers from Umlazi. Pic by Val Adamson)
Apart from a huge portfolio of professional
dance theatre work, Flatfoot Dance Company’s commitment to growing dance in
KwaZulu-Natal sees the company offering dance development projects and youth
dance development programmes to over 800 youngsters each year.
Dance
Some More 2013 is the culmination concert of the
past year’s dance training and development, and thanks to the support of the
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, an opportunity for the company’s young dancers to
perform in a professional theatre situation. Flatfoot will showcase dancers
from their Umlazi, Newlands East, Waterloo, Kenneth Gardens, Cleremont and KwaMashu
based programmes and a special performance from their mixed ability/integrated
dance programme run in collaboration with the Open Air School in Durban.
Choreography will be by the six resident Flatfoot dancers, Jabu Siphika, Julia
Wilson, Thobile Maphanga, Sifiso Khumalo, Sifiso Majola and Tshediso Kabulu.
The afternoon’s dance showcase will also
include two very special works. The first is by the ADD Flatfoot programme.
Over 2013, the ADD programme (Advanced Dance Development) has selected 15 of
the older youth working within Flatfoot’s township programmes and given them
additional intensive dance training such that Flatfoot is readying them for
careers as professional dancers. They will perform Revealing Me choreographed by Jabu Siphika.
Secondly, Flatfoot Training Company will
perform Lliane Loots’s Sweet Bach Suite.
This dance work is a communal celebration of not only J S Bach’s beautiful cello suites but has been
choreographed to challenge these young adult emerging dancers and allow them
the opportunity to rise up to the stamina and technical training needed to
sustain a full-length dance theatre work.
Dance
Some More 2013 offers an afternoon that truly
celebrates Durban’s up and coming talent and one that truly honours the
transformative power of dance! The performance will take place on October 26 at
14h00 at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre. Tickets R20 at the door.
Over 2013, Flatfoot’s work has been
supported by funding from ncp alcohols, SIBAYA and SeaFrog Communications.
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