KwaMashu
School of Dance Theatre performed at Green Corridors’
Green Hub near Durban’s Blue Lagoon as part of the Global Water Dance
Festival on June 10, 2023, during World Oceans Week.
The 150 children from Durban and surrounding areas performed a work called Waiting for Water as part of a global experience with other communities worldwide who participated in the Global Water Dance Festival.
The event was free and audiences were invited to bring their camp chairs or blankets and enjoy a picnic while joining communities in 180 worldwide locations in this international initiative to promote water and environment protection.
Director of the KwaMashu School of Dance Theatre, Vusi Makhanya elaborated on the event: “The community of Durban is suffering from water cut-offs from time to time due to water loss, we wait for water for hours in long queues. Our work is called Waiting for water and is a Site-Specific Performance that highlights water conversation, safe water, and clean water for all.
“Participants and audiences of all ages were invited to learn some dance choreography that’s being taught around the globe and featured as our grand finale of the day.”
Green Corridors had representatives at the event to talk about environmental issues Durban citizens face and how this relates to water, and the urgent need to put interventions in place to preserve and conserve our water resources.
The Dance Theatre is funded by Tänzer ohne Grenzen e.V. (Dancers Without Borders) in German with partners and collaborators are Global Water Dance Creatives, LABAN/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, LIMS in New York, with endorsements from the Green Corridors and it’s Green Hub and the eThekwini Municipality’s Parks, Recreation & Cemeteries, Arts and Living Cultures and associates are ASSITEJ Theatre for Youth's Social Empowerment Fund Project (SEF).
NB. A group
of 20 young dancers from the KMSDT performed earlier in the day at the 67
Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day grand event – Local is Lekker.
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