PLAYHOUSE EVENTS

 

Women’s Arts Festival

(Above: An image from “Journey”, pic supplied)

 

Flatfoot Dance Company

In this Playhouse Company’s Women’s Arts Festival, Flatfoot Dance Company presents Journey, featuring two captivating dance works. The first piece is The Salt on Your Skin by resident choreographer and artistic director Lliane Loots, while the second Soritra is by special guest choreographer Gaby Saranouffi from Madagascar. This production not only celebrates Flatfoot’s 21-year journey of reaching significant milestones but also explores the essence of what it means to be alive at this moment in history.

Saranouffi’s Soritra (Traces) opens the evening with a fast-paced exploration of self, searching for “traces of where we come from and where we are going.” Inspired by the Malagasy indigenous abstract strategy board game “diam-panorona,” the movements of stones on the board are intriguingly replicated in contemporary dance with bold athletic movements.

Loots’s The Salt on Your Skin takes the audience on a journey to the cities of the interior, offering a poignant and beautiful look at intimacy. The piece references sweat, skin, and other acts of love and labor that define our everyday lives. Co-created with six resident Flatfoot dancers (Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Zinhle Nzama, Ndumiso Dube, and Siseko Duba), this work draws on deeply personal stories of love, loss, and hope. Loots uses dance to delve into these intimate narratives, imagining and transforming the larger story of our lives.

Performances from August 15 to 17 , 2024, in the Playhouse Drama Theatre. Tickets booked through Webtickets.

For more information contact https://playhousecompany.com/

 

Chal Naach – Let’s Dance

 

(Above: pic supplied)

Chal Naach – Let’s Dance promises to showcase a rich tapestry of dance. Following the success of its inception in 2023, this year boasts some of the most celebrated and revered companies together with academies – Rudra Dance Theatre, Paramathman Dance Theatre, Kumari Shiksha Dance Institute, Vande Mataram Productions and Nehaal Productions

 Chal Naach has two performances on August 24 - 14h00 and 18h00 - in the Playhouse Opera. Tickets booked through Webtickets.

For more information contact https://playhousecompany.com/