(2017
JOMBA! On The Edge grant awardee, Mdu Mtshali’s “Alive Kids”
in performance at
the KZNSA Gallery. Pic by Val Adamson)
Deadline
JOMBA! @DAG: June 1, 2018
Deadline
Lighting Workshop: June 4, 2018, by 16h00
20th Annual JOMBA! Contemporary Dance,
Anniversary Legacy Festival calls for applications to participate.
The annual JOMBA! Contemporary Dance
Experience which takes place at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre from August 29 to
September 9, 2018, invites dancers, dance-makers and theatre lighting
practitioners to apply to participate in selected programmes of its 20th edition.
Presented by the University of
KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts, JOMBA! provides a platform for
professional, experimental and up-coming choreographers and dance companies
within its Main, Fringe and Youth Fringe programmes.
The JOMBA! Fringe is an adult contemporary
dance platform where eight short works of not more than 15 minutes each are
selected and technically supported. A JOMBA! committee will select these works
and this will depend on meeting the relevant criteria and the level of professionalism.
This Fringe event takes place at UKZN’s Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on September 1,
2018.
The JOMBA! Youth Fringe is open to dancers
under the age of 16 years. It is a supportive initiative for various “Dance
Development” projects operating in the province of KZN and provides a space to
celebrate the up-and-coming generation of young contemporary dancers and dance
practitioners. This event will take place at UKZN’s Open Air Theatre on September
2, 2018.
Both platforms do not come with financial
support but those selected are given professional technical support via the
lighting designers, sound technicians and stage managers as well as the JOMBA!
team.
2018 sees JOMBA! join forces with the
Durban Arts Gallery (DAG) to present a very special site responsive dance event
at the festival on September 7, 2018. JOMBA! and DAG are looking to award two
Durban-based choreographers with a small grant to create a dance/physical
theatre work that will premiere at this event. The work has to be entirely new
and selected choreographers will be mentored and given full technical support.
The grant is for a vision of work that engages “in situ” spaces both inside and
outside the Gallery.
This year, there is a welcome addition of
an open lighting for dance workshop on September 3, 2018, at the Elizabeth
Sneddon Theatre. Julie Ballard, Chicago-based professional theatrical
technician affiliated with IATSE Local 2 and Actors’ Equity Association, and
the Stage Manager and Properties Master for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, will
present this workshop for dance-makers, dancers and technicians. This workshop
is free for 20 participants – but prior applications must be made.
Applications for the JOMBA! @DAG close on
June 1, 2018, and the Fringe, Youth Fringe and the Lighting Workshop must be in
by June 4, 2018, by 16h00 and should to be sent to jombafestival@gmail.com
For more information or to get an
application via email contact Lliane Loots on lootsl@ukzn.ac.za using the name
of the programme/workshop you are applying for in the subject line.
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