FORUMS & WORKSHOPS – OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Entrance is FREE but please register on the link below for ALL Events www.quicket.co.za/events/186692-body-moves-international-inclusive-dance-festival
All events will take place at the Sibikwa Arts Centre, Cnr Liverpool and Bolton Rd Benoni.
As part of the Body Moves International Inclusive Dance Festival happening from 10 – 16 October at Sibikwa Arts Centre (13 Liverpool Park, Corner Liverpool and Bolton Roads, Benoni) inclusive dance workshops are being offered by the EU companies & participants, together with an OPEN FORUM which will also be live streamed.
There is no cost to participate in the dance and disability workshops, professional exchange workshops or FORUM’S. But you need to register online at Quicket on the link below.
There are two performances on Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th October at 2pm, featuring work from EIGHT Companies (3 South African and 5 International), some of which are being created especially for this Festival!
Tickets for the performances on 15 & 16 October are R80 pp, R70 pp for groups of 10 or more people. Book online with Quicket https://www.quicket.co.za/events/186692-body-moves-international-inclusive-dance-festival/#/ OR R100 at the door.
FORUMS :
FORUM #1: Shared Practice – a view of the integrated dance playing field
THURSDAY 13 October: 6 – 7.30pm
Facilitator: Nadine McKenzie (UNMUTE DANCE COMPANY, SA)
Overview:
Given the incredible gathering of global integrated dance practitioners at this festival, this forum is a space for all participants of the festival to share their work and the vision of each company/choreographer. This sharing is a space to promote awareness and dialogue between artists as a means of collective practices that grows integrated dance in both the dance education and performance arenas.
This Forum is open to any audience/guests who wish to join.
This Forum will be live streamed! (details and link to follow very shortly)
Possible Outcome: setting up a network of integrated dance practitioners.
FORUM #2: Thinking Disability – Thinking Citizenship (a participatory workshop)
SUNDAY 15 October: 4.30 – 6pm
Facilitator: Lliane Loots (FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY, SA)
Overview:
In thinking about the idea of citizenship in various local global contexts, this interactive participatory dialogue seeks to open up discussion on how the disabled subject is situated in various contexts of inclusion and exclusion – be these cultural, artistic, personal and political. The forum opens up the idea of dance as a tool to negotiated citizenship and ideas of place.
This Forum is open to any audience/guests who wish to join.
This Forum will be documented and shared at a later stage, after the Festival, on the Sibikwa FB Page.
Possible Outcomes: continued sharing of practice, identifying various areas of challenge and struggle for artists working in integrated dance practices and the onward setting up of a network of support and artistic care.
WORKSHOP & PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
- Monday 10 Oct 11 – 1pm Integrated Workshop by Adriaan Luteijn (Netherlands)
- Tuesday 11 Oct 2 – 4pm Integrated Workshop by: Steve Batts/ Cindy Cummings & Sighile Hennessy (Ireland)
- Wednesday 12 Oct 10 – 12pm Integrated Workshop by Paola Palmi (Italy)
- Thursday 13 Oct 6 – 7:30pm FORUM #1 (Sibikwa Arts Centre – Theatre)
- Saturday 15 Oct 2 – 4pm PERFORMANCE 1 (Sibikwa Arts Centre – Theatre) 4:30 – 6pm FORUM #2 /LIVESTREAM (Sibikwa Arts Centre – Theatre)
- Sunday 16 Oct 2 – 4pm PERFORMANCE 2 (Final) 1 (Sibikwa Arts Centre – Theatre) 4 – 4.30pm Q&A after the performance
