Durban’s inimitable
Flatfoot Dance Company continues its partnership with the KZNSA Gallery and its
2017 performance calendar with a once-off specially conceptualised performance,
connections between a quartet, on February
17.
The work uses all
the spaces of the KZNSA to evoke a journey through a site; a journey through
the deeply interior (and ever moving) identities of the four FLATFOOT dancers
as they collaborative create an evening to spark the senses, and which echo in
the big and small spaces of the gallery.
In connections between a quartet, Jabu
Siphika, Zinhle Nzama, Sifiso Khumalo and Tshediso Kabulu seamlessly move into
the role of both choreographer and dancer as they begin to explore the nature
of their own connections to one another and their connections to inner
struggles around identity. As the dancers begin to metaphorically and
physically peel off their layers of clothing, they reveal the vulnerable self
that cannot but move audiences.
Directed and
facilitated by FLATFOOT’s Artistic Director, Lliane Loots, this ‘event’ is a
space to allow the emerging (and now award-winning) artistic and choreographic
voices of the four FLATFOOT dancers to shine.
FLATFOOT has a
reputation for offering politically-charged dance theatre and this work is no
exception. Small site-specific relationship vignettes play out between dancers
who seamlessly move and flow between one another in close encounters. The
gallery space allows for a more intimate engagement with the dance work and is
ideal for a slightly voyeuristic look into the lives of others. As Loots says;
“The four FLATFOOT dancers have created a landscape of intimate and deeply
profound personal storytelling and I feel that we are seeing the new generation
of Durban’s choreographers being born – do not miss it!”
connections between a quartet is for one night only. The performance
begins at 18h15 on February 17 at the KZNSA Gallery. Tickets R50 can be
purchased up to 40mins before the show or from flatfootdancecompany@gmail.com The KZNSA Coffee Shop will be open at this
time.
The KZNSA Gallery
is situated at 166 Bulwer Road, Glenwood, in Durban.
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