(Reviews from the artSMart team at the 2015 National Arts
Festival in Grahamstown)
Entertaining and easy-flowing showcase of dance styles.
(Review by Caroline Smart)
Presented by the SASAD KZN Dance Company, Mixed Motion offers an entertaining and
easy-flowing showcase of dance styles. Both experienced and break-through
choreographers handled the sections of ballet, Spanish, Jazz, contemporary, tap
and hiphop.
Mixed Motion is
co-directed by Des van de Spuy and Jenny Walter-Girout. Choreographers include
Leagan Peffer, Kristi-Leigh Gresse, Sandra Kelly, Yolanda Bourman, Ann
Boardman, Ingrid White and Julia Hosmer, and Kirsty Frances.
The company includes some 40 well-disciplined dancers
ranging in age from 10 to mid-20’s and the programme was put together in a remarkably
short time (over a period of Sundays) because of school commitments and travel
distances etc.
Scene followed scene in a fast-moving high energy
celebration of mixed-rhythms and different costumes where funky beat morphed
into ballet prompting Ann Boardman to coin the phrase “the ballerina becomes
hip hop.” Boardman choreographed the highlight of the show, a flamboyant item
of Spanish dance – full of swirling red shawls, fans and skirts.
Mixed Motion is
the winner of a 2015 Standard Bank Ovation Award. This production’s appearance
on the 2015 National Arts Festival was supported by the Libraries and Heritage
Department of eThekwini Municipality. – Caroline Smart
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