From left: Erin Barnard, Pauline Marais, Shae van Winkel, Wayne Pantry, Stacey Dunnett. Clayton Constant, Hayley Postlethwaite, Yuveshan Pillay, Dane Anderson, Sharlby Van Der Bergh, Mandy Steyn and Clifford Moroney. Photo: Val Adamson
Returning for its 24th season, Shall We Dance – the glittering annual showcase of fabulous ballroom and Latin American – takes to the Playhouse Opera stage in Durban from September 9 to 17. Continue reading
For theatre-lovers, well-known playwright Mahesh Dattani’s Dance like a Man will be presented at The Fringe at Joburg Theatre on Sunday, September 4 at 7pm, for one performance only.
The Shared History Festival is celebrating its milestone 10th year of the Indian Experience in South Africa from August 30 to September 10. The festival continues the centuries-old narrative of historical and cultural ties between South Africa and India. Continue reading
A MULTI-MEDIA art installation, which wowed critics and festival-goers at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, will be staged at the Hilton Arts Festival next month, writes THELUVVIE.COM’s Estelle Sinkins. Continue reading
Mamaza, from Switzerland, in the duet “Eifo Efi” with dancers Ioannis Mandafounis and Fabrice Mazliah.
The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts, presents its 18th annual JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience, at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, Pieter Scholtz Open Air Theatre and KZNSA Gallery from August 24 to September 4. Continue reading
Don’t miss NAACH – My Diary of Dance at the Playhouse
Iqraam Rahim’s Rampage Dance Company proudly presents NAACH – My Diary of Dance, a celebration of dance from a South African Indian perspective.
The production will be performed on Friday, August 19 at 7 pm at The Playhouse in Durban by a cast of some 30 performers, made up of students from Crawford, Northwood, Verulam Secondary, Seatides Combined, DHS, Maritzburg College, St John’s College, Our Lady of Fatima and the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Continue reading
The Playhouse Company’s 20th annual South African Women’s Arts Festival (SAWAF) – which is celebrating 60 years since the 1956 Women’s March to Parliament – will take place at the Durban venue from August 11. Continue reading
Marc Goldberg’s dance adaptation of Noel Coward’s hugely controversial play, The Vortex, will be presented by Cape Town City Ballet at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town in July. It’s not to be missed!
The ballet explores themes of drug addiction in 1920’s high society, adultery, ageing and dysfunctional family dynamics over the course of a weekend in the country home of David and Florence Lancaster. Continue reading
Outgoing National Arts Festival artistic director, Ismail Mahomed.
ARTISTIC excellence was celebrated at the National Arts Festival on Sunday morning (July 10) when the winners of the 2016 Standard Bank Ovation Awards were revealed at a ceremony which also honoured outgoing National Arts Festival artistic director, Ismail Mahomed.
Commenting on the impact of the awards, Mahomed said: “The Ovation Awards have earned a significant gravitas in the arts sector. They have become a barometer for audiences and visiting arts managements about productions that should not be missed. Artists at the festival have been bold and have used their talents and skills to engage with burning issues in the most creative ways.” Continue reading
GARY Gordon, the “father of South African physical theatre”, was presented with a Standard Bank Standing Ovation Award at a reception held at the Monument in Grahamstown, in honour of his “longstanding creative energy in South Africa’s cultural life and his enormously significant contributions to the vitality of the National Arts Festival’s main, fringe and arena programmes”. Continue reading
Thembi Mitshali in OoMaSisulu. Photo: Artscape
Artscape Theatre will be showcasing six productions at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
In association with the National Arts Festival, four productions will be presented and staged on the National Lottery Fringe, and two will receive support on the Main Stage at the Festival from June 30 to July 10. Continue reading
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