(Above: Pavishen Paideya (Durban).)
Three KwaZulu-Natal dance-makers have been commissioned to create works for this year’s JOMBA! EDGE platform, as part of the JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience taking place from August 30, 2022, at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre in Durban.
JOMBA!, which is presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, has a long history of supporting Durban and KZN-based dance-makers and has offered grants to three choreographers/dancers to help push their creation of new local work. In the JOMBA! EDGE mentored platform, Sandile Mkhize (Durban), Tegan Peacock (Pietermaritzburg) and Pavishen Paideya (Durban) will present their work on Friday, September 2 at 19h00 and Saturday, September 3 at 14h30.
The same programme will be presented by JOMBA! and Rerouting Arts at the Old Mushroom Farm in Howick on September 17 at 18h00.
“All three have displayed an uncanny survival instinct and despite so much lost time for dance over the COVID shut down, all three have continued to make meaningful work over this time,” says JOMBA!’s Artistic Director Lliane Loots. “We are delighted to honour them in our 2022 festival and have asked them to respond to the curatorial provocation of this year’s festival – the (im)possibility of home.”
Co-founder and Artistic Director of Phakama Dance Theatre, Sandile Mkhize will premiere TAKE ME BACK HOME, a duet that begins to rethink notions of black masculinity and brotherhood. He takes us on a journey to what home means for the body – a place of self-discovery and self-interrogation.
Accomplished dancer and choreographer and artistic director of Rudra Dance Theatre, an Indian dance company, Pavishen Paideya presents SAMSARA - an honest and culturally magnificent dance journey into Diaspora Indian South African identity and ideas of home and belonging.
Performance artist and creator and founder of Rerouting Arts, a collaborative arts organisation, Tegan Peacock presents HEAD_SPACE as she attempts to trace the internal conversations of the body and the mind in turmoil. It is a mapping of patterns, pressures and struggles, a performative cartography of self and belonging that works with live music.
The festival offers a 13-day feast of contemporary dance, and includes performances and dance talks at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre with a Youth Open Horizons event at the Stable Theatre and select online offerings, as well as workshops, and an extensive online blog.
The festival takes place from August 30 to September 11, 2022. Tickets for performances at the Sneddon Theatre are R80 (R65 students, scholars and pensioners) booked through Computicket (https://tickets.computicket.com/). All other events are free.
(Tickets for the programme in Howick on September 17 at 18h00 are R80 and can be booked through https://bit.ly/BookJombaReroutingHowick
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