The Theatre – St Anne’s College and Flatfoot
Dance Company present The Clothes We
Wear, The People We Are, a choreopoem that reflects on ideas of identity
and what it means to be South African.
Flatfoot Dance Company (now in its 14th
year) is KZN’s premier African contemporary dance company with numerous awards
for their dance works and recent international tours securely under their
belts.
The Clothes
We Wear, The People We Are explores notions of
South African identity through the symbolic use of clothing, shoes and other
outward markers of self in a beautifully constructed and choreographed trio.
Senior Flatfoot dancers Jabu Siphika, Sifiso Khumalo and Zinhle Nzama take you
on a dance theatre journey that is both deeply personal, and yet reflective of
the lives of the audience.
Based on the idea of a ‘choreopoem’, The
clothes we wear, the people we are combines music, singing, dance and text that
has been carefully crafted by award winning choreographer, Lliane Loots. Small
and interlinked dance vignettes move through a range of circumstances and
people, from two women confronting ideas of sisterhood, to male notions of self
in exploration of a range of masculinities, including fatherhood and caring. We
see the characters trying to find the right (metaphoric) shoes to fit them,
while also looking for freedom of movement.
The piece is both witty and thought
provoking, and will entertain and challenge; it has been crafted to both
inspire and move, starting from what is known and recognisable and moving into
the unknown, both in the ideas it expresses, and the dance styles it includes.
There will be a Q&A session after the
show where the audience can ask the Flatfoot Company about the performance and
about any issues that the work raises.
The
Clothes We Wear, The People We Are takes place on September
13 at 18h00 at The Theatre – St Anne’s College. Tickets R50 booked on 033 343 6100
or twoodgate@stannes.co.za
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