Dance

Cape Dance Company celebrates 20th year in Grahamstown

Published on May 14, 2015

The Cape Dance Company has performed at the National Arts Festival since the company was established in 1995 – and, if artistic director Debbie Turner has anything to do with it, they’ll be there for the next 20. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=””… Read More

Tumbuka to bloom bold at National Arts Festival

Published on May 11, 2015

Unflinching Harare-based dance company Tumbuka to stage production that grapples with the Zimbabwean psyche through a vigorous vocabulary of contemporary dance Saying a resolute no to xenophobia by their very presence at this year’s National Arts Festival, Zimbabwe’s leading dance company Tumbuka will be staging a production that explores the ‘Zimbabwean self, focusing on the… Read More

2014 Standard Bank Young Artist for Dance critiques the traditional

Published on October 16, 2013

The National Arts Festival’s 2014 Standard Bank Young Artist for Dance, 30 year old Nicola Elliott, is inspired by aesthetics, and by the bizarre experiences that come with being human and living in South African society. As a choreographer-director, performer, dance lecturer and facilitator, Elliott is known for her intellectual rigour, wit and irony; and… Read More