{"id":19182,"date":"2023-08-17T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=19182"},"modified":"2023-08-17T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T15:31:08","slug":"dance-on-the-edge-at-25th-jomba-contemporary-dance-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2023\/08\/17\/dance-on-the-edge-at-25th-jomba-contemporary-dance-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance on the EDGE at 25th JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

29 August \u2013 10 September 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

wo KwaZulu-Natal dance makers, Marcia Mzindle and Lorin Sookool will feature in the JOMBA! ON THE EDGE platform of the 25th<\/sup> JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience taking place at venues around Durban from 29 August \u2013 10 September 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marcia Mzindle and\u00a0Lorin Sookool have both received grants to create and present work in the annual ON THE EDGE a platform that supports fresh innovative contemporary dance work coming out of, or linked to, the KZN region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marcia Mzindle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lorin Sookool<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJOMBA! is delighted to support their dance work as part of stimulating young women artists to push boundaries and find their unique voices,\u201d says Curator and Artistic Director of the festival, Lliane Loots. \u201cBoth these intrepid dance makers have been tracked by the JOMBA! curatorial team for the ongoing challenging and intersectional gender sensitive work they are producing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marcia has created a screen dance film for the DIGITAL JOMBA! platform, called INTO EMDAKA<\/em>, and Lorin has created a site responsive work called Woza Wenties!<\/em> that will be performed on the Howard College Campus (UKZN).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cINTO EMDAKA<\/em> was conceived while pursuing my Master\u2019s degree with a strong interest in the body \u2014 particularly Black women’s bodies, looking at dance and in physical performances,\u201d explains Marcia, dance maker and MA graduate from UKZN. \u201cI am a young Black South African woman, a performance maker, and am currently on a continuous journey of Ubungoma (sangoma training). This work is a negotiation of all three of these shifting identities. The work focuses on reimagining the Black female body as a ‘site of possibilities’ that unveils its multiple identities, focusing on where the invisibility in relation to systematic oppression and hyper-visibility in my body politics dwells.\u201d INTO EMDAKA<\/em> will premiere on the JOMBA! YouTube channel on Thursday 7 September at 6pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woza Wenties<\/em>! is the title of Lorin Sookool\u2019s work that will be performed at the Howard College Dome at UKZN. Lorin is a contemporary dance artist with an interdisciplinary practice encompassing performance, text, sound, photography and film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woza Wenties!<\/em> is a partly autobiographical solo. Interpreting the dancing body as a previously colonised state, Sookool sets out to understand her own erasure by deconstructing the colonial projects undertaken in many South African schooling systems post 1994. \u00a0Through the title of the work, Sookool calls for the resurrection of lost aspects of her being and expression. \u2018Woza\u2019 is the isiZulu word meaning \u201ccome\u201d and \u2018Wenties\u2019 is the affectionate term for the Wentworth township, located in Durban South. The area, previously reserved for people of colour, was Sookool\u2019s home before the artist moved to a suburban area to attend school. Sookool’s artistic creation explores complex South African socio-political themes, with a focus on situations of racial, gendered, systemic and institutionalised violence. (Parental guidance for under 16\u2019s). Woza Wenties!<\/u><\/em> performances take place on Friday 8 September and Saturday 9 September at 6pm \u2013 seating is limited and booking is essential. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presented by the Centre for Creative Arts and the University of KwaZulu-Natal, the festival offers a myriad of dance performances, workshops, talks and screen dance at venues around Durban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets are R80 or R50 (students, scholars, pensioners) or R350 \u2013 once off FULL festival pass to see everything. Booking through COMPUTICKET<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information go to jomba.ukzn.ac.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

29 August \u2013 10 September 2023 wo KwaZulu-Natal dance makers, Marcia Mzindle and Lorin Sookool will feature in the JOMBA! ON THE EDGE platform of the 25th JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience taking place at venues around Durban from 29 August \u2013 10 September 2023. Marcia Mzindle and\u00a0Lorin Sookool have both received grants to create and present… Continue reading Dance on the EDGE at 25th JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19182","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=19182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}