{"id":16517,"date":"2022-08-12T17:53:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T15:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=16517"},"modified":"2022-08-12T17:53:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T15:53:45","slug":"innovative-dance-works-commissioned-for-jomba-edge-platform-at-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2022\/08\/12\/innovative-dance-works-commissioned-for-jomba-edge-platform-at-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovative Dance Works Commissioned For JOMBA! EDGE Platform At Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Three KwaZulu-Natal dance-makers have been commissioned to create works for this year\u2019s JOMBA! EDGE platform, as part of the JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience taking place from 30 Augusut at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre in Durban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JOMBA! which is presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal has a long history of supporting Durban and KZN-based dance-makers and has offered grants to three choreographers\/dancers to help push their creation of new local work. In the JOMBA! EDGE mentored platform, Sandile Mkhize (Durban), Tegan Peacock (Pietermaritzburg) and Pavishen Paideya (Durban) will present their work on Friday, 2 September at 7pm and Saturday, 3 September at 2.30pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same programme will be presented by JOMBA! and Rerouting Arts at the Old Mushroom Farm in Howick on 17 September at 6pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll three have displayed an uncanny survival instinct and despite so much lost time for dance over the COVID shut down, all three have continued to make meaningful work over this time,\u201d says JOMBA!\u2019s Artistic Director Lliane Loots. \u201cWe are delighted to honour them in our 2022 festival and have asked to respond to the curatorial provocation of this year\u2019s festival \u2013 the (im)possibility of home<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-founder and Artistic Director of Phakama Dance Theatre Sandile Mkhize will premiere TAKE ME BACK HOME<\/em>, a duet that begins to rethink notions of black masculinity and brotherhood. He takes us on a journey to what home means for the body \u2013 a place of self-discovery and self-interrogation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sandile Mkhize<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Accomplished dancer and choreographer and artistic director of Rudra Dance Theatre, an Indian dance company, Pavishen Paideya presents SAMSARA<\/em> – an honest and culturally magnificent dance journey into Diaspora Indian South African identity and ideas of home and belonging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pavishen Paideya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Performance artist and creator and founder of Rerouting Arts, a collaborative arts organisation, Tegan Peacock present HEAD_SPACE<\/em> as she attempts to trace the internal conversations of the body and the mind in turmoil. It is a mapping of patterns, pressures and struggles, a performative cartography of self and belonging that works with live music.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tegan Peacock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The festival offers a 13 day feast of contemporary dance, and includes performances and dance talks at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre with a Youth Open Horizons event at the Stable Theatre and select online offerings, as well as workshops, and an extensive online blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Festival takes place from 30 August to 11 September. Tickets for performances at the Sneddon Theatre are R80, and R65 for students, scholars and pensioners through Computicket (tickets.computicket.com\/<\/a>). All other events are free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Tickets for the programme in Howick on 17 September at 6pm are R80 and can be booked through bit.ly\/BookJombaReroutingHowick<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information follow on social media or go to the website: jomba.ukzn.ac.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three KwaZulu-Natal dance-makers have been commissioned to create works for this year\u2019s JOMBA! EDGE platform, as part of the JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience taking place from 30 Augusut at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre in Durban. JOMBA! which is presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal has a long history of… Continue reading Innovative Dance Works Commissioned For JOMBA! EDGE Platform At Festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festival","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}