{"id":17576,"date":"2022-11-14T16:50:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=17576"},"modified":"2022-11-14T16:50:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T14:50:05","slug":"flatfoot-dance-company-access-dance-festival-25-november-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2022\/11\/14\/flatfoot-dance-company-access-dance-festival-25-november-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Flatfoot Dance Company Access Dance Festival 25 November 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Friday 25 November @ 6.30pm<\/strong>
COURTYARD THEATRE<\/strong>
Tickets: R50.00<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Durban\u2019s much-loved FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY is delighted to offer its first FLATFOOT ACCESS DANCE FESTIVAL 2022 at 6.30pm on 25 November at the Courtyard Theatre, Durban University of Technology. Three new works created by FLAFTFOOT will be showcased celebrating the power of dance to transcend narrow definitions of who can dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FLATFOOT\u2019s approach to community dance development in KZN, has seen it offering what artistic director, Dr. Lliane Loots calls, \u201ca dance philosophy and practice we refer to as \u2018living democracy\u2019 where we find ways to make dance accessible to all no matter physical or intellectual ability, geography, race, gender and any other intersectional category around identity\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Company has nationally spearheaded one of South Africa\u2019s only dance programmes with dancers living with Down Syndrome affectionately called the FLATFOOT Downie Dance Company. This programme began in 2017 and continues with four incredible dancers, Kevin Govender, Michaela Munro, Charles Phillips and Karl Hebbelman. Working in a partnering methodology that sees the FLATFOOT company dancers working alongside, this festival offers three works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first is Loots\u2019s collaboration with the dancers called \u2018same difference\u2019 that premiered to standing ovations at SIBIKWA\u2019s Body Moves Festival in Johannesburg in October 2022. Loots says, \u201csame difference is an idiomatic phrase often used in English that indicates that two things are not really different in any important way. This was the starting point into creating a dance work that\u00a0plots the meetings and partings of a group of 8 South African dancers who journey into way of seeing one another\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The second work on offer, sees FLATFOOT partnering with guest choreographer from Chicago (USA) Sydney Erlikh who has come to Durban to share integrated dance practices with FLATFOOT.  Erlikh is an artist, educator and doctoral candidate in Disability Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. She was co-awarded a 2019-2020 Schweitzer Fellowship which lead to the creation of the Inclusive Dance Workshop Series at Access Living in Chicago. Talking about her new work with FLATFOOT and the FLATFOOT Downie Dance Company called \u201cShield of the Heart\u201d, Erlikh says \u201cin a world where safety is a concern, those who guide you become a shield you wear on your heart. We all came together here in Durban as a disability community to share knowledge and culture. This dance work – our dance work – is a score that will never be the same. Through it, we share our vulnerability and create safety for one another. The dance piece asks where you find safety and who has been a shield for your heart\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final work on the programme is a collaboration between Loots, FLATFOOT and Julia Pitt, a dancer living with cerebral palsy. Julia has always considered herself a dancer and has literally watched every local performance FLATFOOT has ever done. A chance meeting started a working process in February of 2022, and this festival offers Julia\u2019s first public performance with the company. Loots has worked collaboratively with Pitt and FLATFOOT\u2019s Jabu Siphika and Zinhle Nzama to create an intimated and moving trio called \u201cperpetual motion\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets are R50. Seating is limited so booking is essential. Contact Clare on flatfootdancecompany@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pre-booked tickets can be collected at the Courtyard box office from 45mins before the start of show on Friday 25November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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