(ADD Flatfoot Dance
Company’s dancers from Umlazi, Newlands and Kwa Mashu. Pic by Val Adamson)
Flatfoot Dance Company is committed to growing dance in
KwaZulu-Natal. Over the past 11 years the company played a major role in dance development
by offering training to over 1,000 KZN-based children and youth every year.
Flatfoot’s programmes are implemented in both rural and urban areas.
Flatfoot’s annual production, Dance Some More, will showcase dancers from the company’s Umlazi,
Kwa Mashu, Newlands, Waterloo, Umbilo, and Kenneth Garden’s based programmes,
also with a special performance from LeftFeetFIRST, the company’s mixed
ability/integrated dance programme. which is run in collaboration with the Open
Air School in Durban.
Dance some more
features choreography by the six resident Flatfoot dancers Sifiso Khumalo,
Tshediso Kabulu, Sifiso Majola, Julia Wilson, Jabu Siphika and Zinhle Nzama.
The concept culminates in two special performances by the Advanced Dance
Development (ADD) Programme and the Flatfoot Training Company featuring more
than 700 dancers! The ADD Programme offers technique and performance dance
skills to, especially, talented young dancers (16 years and up) who have come
through the company’s township-based dance education and development
programmes.
The production takes place on October 25 at 14h00 at the
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre. Tickets at the door an hour before the show starts.
Flatfoot is KwaZulu-Natal’s last remaining fully functioning
contemporary dance company. The company is a current recipient of a three-year
ACT Professional Development grant towards the training of a new company
manager. The trainee is under the mentorship of the Founder and Director of
Flatfoot, Lliane Loots, and will gain administrative, management and planning
experience as well as learn about report writing, fundraising and compliance
while being involved in the ten dance educational and development programmes
run by the company.
Flatfoot acknowledges the support of the Arts & Culture
Trust, the National Arts Council, Santam, Spring Lights Gas, Sibaya, Ncpalcohol
Visit http://flatfootdancecompany.webs.com/
for more information.
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