Barbie’ll blow you back
23.03.2016 A pink pop explosion of power play. Standard Bank Young Artist Christiaan Olwagen takes Henrik Ibsen’s Norwegian realism and wrings it into a post-modern mash spiced with expressionism to … Read More
Month: March 2016
The Right Approach
White tutus on suspended white headless mannequins are lined upstage. They float, they are light. They’re in the background but good lighting reminds us of their ever-presence. Mamela Nyanza walks … Read More
Sensational Connections
An intriguing and mesmerising double bill of contemporary dance works, Interim and Lingering, explore connections; human and mental. South African Thami Majela and Swede Margarita Kennedy choreograph and perform Interim. Darkness … Read More
Forced Rebellion
Jessica Nupen’s Rebellion & Johannesburg gets caught up in trying to reflect a complicated and complex Joburg. Collaboration with renowned artists promised a feast of interesting elements – Ed Blignaut … Read More
Rekindled Ketima manifests life
Challenging, seductive discovery. A unified readiness. Balletic toes tap in pointe to a pulsating, driving beat. Anticipation. The unison disintegrates as each dancer creates their solo of shuddering swirls, twirls, … Read More