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DATE
12 OCT 2010, TUE -
13 OCT 2010, WED
13 OCT 2010, WED
TIME
8pm
(1hr 25mins, including intermission)
(1hr 25mins, including intermission)
VENUE
Theatre Studio
PRICE
$35
Concessions: for students, NSF and senior citizens: $25 All Upper Secondary Schools, JCs, CIs and ITEs may use Tote Board Arts Grant to subsidise up to 60% of this programme.
Concessions: for students, NSF and senior citizens: $25 All Upper Secondary Schools, JCs, CIs and ITEs may use Tote Board Arts Grant to subsidise up to 60% of this programme.
SYNOPSIS
"A wonderfully entertaining duet…wrapped up themes of conflict in humour and originality" - The Independent
This programme of two powerful duets brings together three long-time friends and creative collaborators. Southern Comfort, choreographed by Gregory Maqoma, and Bound, by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, are performed by Maqoma and Shanell Winlock. Southern Comfort, lauded for its incisive commentary, looks at how perceived ideas define human experience and mirrors behaviours, attitudes and reactions.
Dramatic, passionate and humorous, its exposé of the power games people play is movingly captured by the dynamic interaction of Maqoma and Winlock. The extraordinary chemistry of their dance partnership is brought to bear in Bound, choreographed by renowned Flemish-Moroccan dance artist Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. He explores with the dancers the notion of how we are bound to ourselves and our desires, and our bonds to our heritage and to one another. Body parts are linked in movement, limiting yet creating potential for both dancers to find an articulation together. The duets feature original music performed live by an international ensemble of musicians.
Maqoma, founder of Vuyani Dance Theatre, is among the leading voices of the new-generation South African artists and has gained international acclaim as choreographer and dancer. Winlock, a recipient of multiple awards for performance and formerly with Vuyani Dance Theatre, is currently a dancer at UK's Akram Khan Dance Company.
For more information and video clips, please visit www.dansfestival.com.
For more information and video clips, please visit www.dansfestival.com.
Co-production: Théâtre de la Ville (Paris, France), Sadler’s Wells (London, UK), The ShowRoom –- University of Chichester with The Point (Eastleigh, UK), Festival de Marseille, RPF/RED Reggio Emilia Danza – Aperto Festival, Julidans (Amsterdam, Netherlands), KVS ( Brussels)
With the support of: Cultuurcentrum Brugge, TanzHaus NRW (Dusseldorf, Germany), Festival Next (Courtrai-Lille-Tournai)/Buda, Vuyani Dance Theatre (dir. Gregory Maqoma), Eastman vzw (dir. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
Production: Théâtre de la Ville (Paris, France)
Production: Théâtre de la Ville (Paris, France)
