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Pan-African Creative Exchange An Interdisciplinary (Performing) Arts Provocation
MARCH ISSUE Preliminary programme (subject to change) Welcome to the second Pan-African Creative Exchange For this exchange, over 50 productions and presentations have been curated and selected from countries such as Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chad, The Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, The Netherlands, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America and Zimbabwe (amongst others). During PACE you will be treated to some of the most exciting new work that Africa and its diaspora has to offer, alongside a packed programme of networking opportunities and discussions. Over the next four days you’ll see presentations by 50+ artists and companies addressing issues from the public (mobility, social change and global culture) to the personal (love, identity, mental health and disability).
The PACE team welcomes you with open arms Many employ innovative digital approaches to provide to Bloemfontein, South Africa for the second modern twists on age-old theatre, puppetry, dance, Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE), Africa’s music and spoken word. meeting point for interdisciplinary (performing arts showcasing, networking and critical discourse. PACE is not just about the shows though – it is a vibrant forum to meet imaginative and talented We’re delighted to be hosted by some of artists and arts professionals. We are delighted to Bloemfontein’s most prestigious venues based on welcome delegates from all over the world who bring the campus of the University of the Free State. their unique international perspectives, and we made To help you get around we’ve clustered performances sure we’ve curated an exciting programme of events together by venue, by artform and by day, with the for you to get to know each other better. majority of the shows being presented in the wide array of venues that the University of the Free State PACE, will give you the opportunity also to meet and has to offer. talk with a wider range of artists and companies in the sector, in addition to the popular morning breakfast meetings. PACE founding partners Finally we would like to extend our thanks to everyone who has made PACE possible, whether behind the scenes or in the stalls. We look forward to hearing more about your own stories of diversity and ideas for creative excellence throughout the week.
Nike Jonah Executive Director PACE Erwin Maas, PACE principal funder Ricardo Peach and Founding Directors, PACE
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Essential PACE information
PACE delivery team contacts Nike Jonah Executive Director PACE Nike. [email protected]
Mark Antony Dobson Programme Manager PACE [email protected] [email protected] Disability access services
We aim to make the PACE an inclusive event within an accessible environment and will do all we can to support your requirements. If you have mobility access requirements a member of the PACE team will be able to help you plan your journeys between the performance venues. If you have any queries or difficulties with access during PACE, please let our staff at the registration desk know. Complementary activity PACE isn’t just a week of amazing performances – it’s a place to share ideas and best practice, to build partnerships and to foster collaboration. It’s a time to make new connections and to renew old ones. To this end we’ve planned a whole host of complementary activities around the shows to make sure that you get the most out of your time in Bloemfontein.
During PACE Keep in touch with fellow delegates, artists and the PACE team via Social Media:
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Cover Images: Nsovo Nukeri Photographed by Vukallective
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Diaspora
Australia
Belgium
Canada
Kingdom of the Netherlands
United States of America
United Kingdom
PACE supporting partners
Index & Key
Day Programme 4 Non-Performance Events 9 Tour Ready Showcases 11 Work in Progress Showcases 31 Pitching Sessions 53 Speed Dating 71
Tour Ready Pitching Sessions Up op 60-minutes extracts or complete In these sessions artists pitch ideas and professional works by artists and concepts that are in an early stage of companies. development as well as some tour ready works.
Work in Progress Speed Dating Original work at a critical stage in its Artists present their work to various development. Delegates in a round table format with the goal of getting them interested in their practise and forging new connections. Non-Performance Event Events for delegates that are non-performance based.
4 PACE Thursday 25 June 2020
Time Description Title of the show Venue
07:00 - 12:00 Registration Soetdoring Foyer 09:00 - 10:00 First Nations Welcome kykNET Scaena Theatre
10:00 - 11:00 Panel Connecting Africa: new networks accross kykNET Scaena Theatre the continent
11:00 – 11:30 Morning tea/ Networking / kykNET Scaena Foyer 11:30 -12:30 Pitching 1. Yard Sale - Pawstudios p63 kykNET Scaena Theatre 2. Abomhlaba (thi) p59 - Mayasi Productions 3. Pakana Kanaplila - Salamanca Art p61 Centre 4. Please forgive me - Studio 180 p65 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Dutch Embassy VIP Area 14:30 - 16:30 Work in Progress 1. Shhhh - Company Chabarwa p37 Albert Wessels Coffee Break Auditorium 2. Lest we Forget - Lola Oduwole p41 17:00 - 18:00 Dinner Dutch Embassy VIP Area 18:30 - 19:30 Full Length The Encounter - Lulu Mlangeni kykNet Scaena Theatre Theatre Tickets must be Purchased p25
20:00 - 21:00 Tour Ready ...and the Bass is Queen - p23 Dutch Embassy VIP Area Lindsey Abudei 21:00 - 00:00 PACE Lounge Networking Dutch Embassy VIP Area
5 PACE Friday 26 June 2020
Time Description Title of the show Venue
07:00 - 12:00 Registration Soetdoring Foyer 07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast Dutch Embassy VIP Area
09:00 - 10:00 Panel Theatre for young audiences Dutch Embassy VIP Area
10:30 - 12:30 Work in Progress 1. Night Light - Blank Canvas Kollectiv p33 Soetdoring Gazellie Coffee Break 2. Ndiboleke ingubo - Bokang Lefoko p35 Theatre
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Dutch Embassy VIP Area
14:30 - 15:30 Pitching 1. Orfeus - Third World Bunfight p69 Albert Wessels
2. Samson - Third World Bunfight p72 Auditorium 3. Shadows - Instinct Consult p57 4. Race to Futurity - Decolonizing p55 the Archive 5. Kamphoer - Theatrerocket p67
16:00 -18:00 Work in Progress 1. Mrisi Live - Who’s Got Game p53 kykNET Rep Theatre Coffee Break 2. Mof-Tof - Kirvan Fortuin Foundation p39
18:30 - 19:30 Dinner Dutch Embassy VIP Area 20:00 - 21:00 Panel International touring: getting your work Dutch Embassy VIP Area out there 20:00 - 21:00 Tour Ready Afronauts - Circus Zambia p17 TBC 21:30 - 22:30 Full Length SoliiDad - Association Noa Cie p11 kykNET Scaena Theatre Theatre Vincent Mantsoe Tickets must be Purchased 22:30 - 00:00 PACE Lounge Networking Dutch Embassy VIP Area
6 PACE Saturday 27 June 2020
Time Description Title of the show Venue
07:00 - 12:00 Registration Soetdoring Foyer
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast Dutch Embassy VIP Area
09:00 - 10:00 Panel Xenophobia: intra-African dialogue Dutch Embassy VIP Area 10:30 - 11:30 Speed Dating 1. The Island - Jane Mpholo p87 Dutch Embassy VIP Area 2. Xhanti - Xolisa Kapakati p85 3. Live and Die in Africa - Riverside p81 Productions 4. Portals Open - My Soul Speaks p79 Collective
11:30- 12:00 Coffee Break Dutch Embassy VIP Area 12:00 - 13:00 Speed Dating 1. Bridezilla- Woman in the Arts p83 Dutch Embassy VIP Area 2. Water - Cie Kaddu p73 3. Ruth - Leanetse Seekoe p77 4. On Mars - IMA p75 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Dutch Embassy VIP Area 14:30 - 16:30 Work in Progress 1. 54 Silhouettes- Theatre Emissary p51 kykNET Rep Theatre Coffee Break 2. A toute épreuve - Stev'N-T p47
17:00 - 18:00 Full Length Rouh - Col’jam kykNET Scaena Theatre Theatre Tickets must be Purchased p17
18:30 - 19:30 Dinner Dutch Embassy VIP Area 20:00 - 21:00 Full Length Currently Gold - Kwasha! Albert Wessels Theatre Tickets must be Purchased p21 Auditorium 21:15 - 22:00 Panel Multi-lingual performance: crossing the Dutch Embassy VIP Area boundaries of language 21:15 - 22:00 Work in Progress 1. Lentswe La Setjhaba - Theatre Emissary kykNET Rep Theatre (Voice of the Nation) p43 22:00 - 00:00 PACE Lounge Networking Dutch Embassy VIP Area
7 PACE Sunday 28 June 2020
Time Description Title of the show Venue
07:00 - 12:00 Registration Soetdoring Foyer
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast Dutch Embassy VIP Area
09:00 - 10:00 Tour Ready Dans Mandela Dans - Nobonke p27 Albert Wessels van Tonder Auditorium
10:30 - 12:30 Work in Progress 1. I’d had enough so I killed him p45 Albert Wessels - Rightaboutnow inc Auditorium Coffee Break 2. Simon - Thami Tshabalala p49
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Dutch Embassy VIP Area 14:30 - 15:30 Tour Ready Road Runner - Ayanna Witter Johnson p21 kykNET Rep Theatre 16:00 - 17:00 Full Length Eclipsed - Market Lab kykNET Scaena Theatre Theatre Tickets must be purchased p31 16:00 - 17:00 Tour Ready Bât-toi la - Cie New Style p15 Soetdoring Gazellie 18:00 - 21:00 First Nations Oliewenhuis Art Gallery Homecoming Ceremony 21:00 - 22:00 Tour Ready We are Together - Sotact Entertainment p29 Dutch Embassy VIP Area
22:00 - 00:00 PACE Lounge Networking Dutch Embassy VIP Area
8 Networking opportunities
Meet people working towards the same goals as y ou, and others with a completely fresh perspective, at our speed-dating networking sessions. Join in, don’t be shy, and get even more out of PACE. J ust don’t forget your business cards!
Breakfast meetings Catch up on the previous day’s activities, plan the day ahead and welcome any newcomers on day passes. A chance for first time delegates to meet f ellow initiates, say hello and forge new connections. PACE workshops Themed informal sessions will offer you a chance to get to know each other better and find out about Monday 29 June 2020 a range of strategic organisations. Tell the room about your ideas or projects (an Itch) and ask the Venue: 10:00 - 13:00 PACE team any questions before performances Venue: TBC commence. Viewpoints workshop hosted by Erwin Maas PACE Dutch Embassy VIP Lounge Relax after the day’s activities in the Dutch Embassy
VIP Lounge where you’ll have a chance to catch-up PACE discour ses with other delegates and wind-down and grab a bite to eat. Enjoy some down time to network, eat and We have assembled a programme of inspiring drink together. and engaging speakers to share some original and personal perspectives on touring arts in, with and from Africa. Take a fresh look at the subject and PACE Jet-Lag Lounge find out how these ideas can inform your work. Wednesday evening 24 June 2020 VIP welcome to PACE with a chance to meet 1. Connecting Africa: new networks accross representatives from a wide range of the continent organisations and artists while enjoying affordable food and drinks. 2. International touring: getting your work out Lunch & Dinner there
Lunch and dinner will be available at affordable prices at the Dutch Embassy VIP lounge everyday. 3. Theatre for young audiences Take a break to grab some food and drinks with other delegates between performances. 4. Xenophobia: intra-African engagement PACE online You can find all of the 5. Multi-lingual performance: crossing the information in this book online at: boundaries of language panafricancreativeexchange.co.za
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Association Noa Cie Vincent Mantsoe
Contact information
Contact: Vincent Sekwati Mantsoe Position: Artistic Director, Choreographer Address: 114542 Iyamazane Street, Vosloorus, Ext 14 Marimba, Gardens, Rosloo, Gauteng, 1475 Country: France/South Africa Mobile: +33 6 26 43 24 63 Email: [email protected] Facebook: @CieVincentMantsoe Production information
Title of piece: SoliiDaD Artform: Dance Age suitability: All ages Use of text: No text Use of music: Recorded Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Artistic Director: Vincent Sekwati Mantsoe Lighting Desiger: Wesley Maherry Technical Manager: Wesley Maherry Secretary: Nicolas Mayrand Manager: Cecile Mantsoe
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Two Number of performers on stage: One Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: N/A
11 “ a deeply poetic, introspective, metaphysical, polyrhythmic soliloquy steeped in eternity, triggering primordial memory ” - Adrienne Sichel , The Ar(t)chive
SoliiDaD
Association Noa Cie Vincent Mantsoe France | South Africa Dance Tour - Ready 26 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 21:30 kykNET Scaena Theatre
Soliidad is a solo dance performance, an abstract journey of a traveler, the quest of an Emperor’s elegant path to oblivion, a slavish imitation of a great monk’s journey, conversing the narratives on the path to a roaring, hissing torrent of oblivion.
Vincent Mantsoe is a South African born dancer, choreographer, performer and teacher. He is a well-known international artist. He trained in Johannesburg in 1990, under the leadership of Sylvia Glasser, founder and artistic director of Moving into Dance. Mr. Mantsoe is now based in France where he created his company Association Noa, which tours across the globe. Mr. Mantsoe's work is very much rooted in South African culture, traditional movements based on the Sangomas’ ritualistic process. Mr. Mantsoe has won international and national awards, and was honored in the Elysèe French Government by president Français Holland, for a project with local schools in France.
12 Ayanna Witter-Johnson
Contact information
Contact: Paulette Long Position: Manager Address: 303 The Pill Box, 115 Coventry Road London, E2 6GH Country: United Kingdom Mobile: +07957204524 Email: [email protected] Web: ayannamusic.com Twitter: @AyannaWJ Instagram: @AyannaWJ Facebook: @AyannaWJ Production information
Title of piece: Road Runner Artform: Music Age suitability: All ages Use of text: No text Use of music: Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Artistic: Ayanna Witter-Johnson
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Two Number of performers on stage: One Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
13 “ … a huge talent … like a young Cassandra Wilson would have sounded if she also happened to be a fine cellist.” - Jazzwise
Road Runner
Ayanna Witter-Johnson United Kingdom Music Tour - Ready 28 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 14:30 kykNET Rep Theatre
Singer, songwriter and cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson is a rare exception to the rule that classical and contemporary music cannot successfully co-exist. Her striking vocals and unique cello playing style are both enchanting and mesmerising
Graduating with a first from Trinity Laban School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, she has toured with Anoushka Shankar, Courtney Pine, recorded with Akala and composed for the London Symphony Orchestra. Winning the acclaimed amateur night at the Apollo in Harlem, gaining a MOBO award nomination and getting airplay on BBC Radio 1 & BBC 1Xtra show a clear twist to her classical arm. Able to straddle both worlds effortlessly because of her musical prowess, non-compromising lyrics and ability to deftly reinterpret songs on the cello, Ayanna is the definition of eclectic soul.
14 Cie new style
Contact information
Contact: Alexandre Garcia Position: Président Address: Dakar cité comico 4, BP14125 Dakar- Peytavin, Dakar, Sénégalais, BP14125 Dakar- Peytavin Country: Sénégal Mobile: +221775473802 Telephone: +221773728459 Email: [email protected] Web: New style Crew Sénégal Instagram: @Cienewstyle Twitter: @Cienewstyle Facebook: @NewstyleCrew Production information
Title of piece: Bât-toi la Artform: Dance Age suitability: All ages Use of text: No text Use of music: Recorded Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes, French Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: Yes, audio description Key personnel
Artistic Director & Dancer: Alexandre Garcia Dancer: Babacar Mané Dancer: Mapaté Sakho Administrator: Elhadji Malick Diedhiou
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium Scale (400 - 800 seats) Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Four Number of performers on stage: Three Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: N/A
15 Bât-toi la
Cie new style Sénégal Dance Tour - Ready Sunday 28 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 16:00 Soetdoring Gazellie
“Bât-toi la refers to the dull rumor that creates the loss of consciousness of the black man. The piece is a creation which requires us to visualize our trajectory, to determine ourselves to create this objective of wanting to persevere a culture and a conscience, to prove our determination to excel. We want to pass on power to the African people through dance, which we believe is literature in motion, but also a means of denunciation and commitment.” Cie new style is a multidisciplinary dance company residing in the suburbs of Dakar. It was founded in April 2010 and its ambition is to showcase African culture and present a diversity of work ranging from contemporary dance to urban dance. For the company dance is a means of liberation and revelation. The Cie is made up of 3 dancers with different styles, each having professional careers. They include Clara Bajodo, Romuald Brozolier and Patrick Acogny.
16 Circus Zambia, Barefoot Theatre & Wake the Beast
Contact information
Contact: Gift Chansa Position: Artistic Director Address: Stand 720 OFF Kudu Rd , Kabulonga Lusaka, Lusaka, 01011 Country: Zambia Mobile: +260968885507 Telephone: 0976256324 Email: [email protected] Web: circuszambia.org Instagram: @circusZambia Twitter: @CircusZambia1 Facebook: @Circuszambia Production information
Title of piece: Afronauts Artform: Circus, Theatre, Gig & Protest Age suitability: All ages Use of text: Yes Use of music: Recorded Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Artist: Bergus Siatubout Artist: Charles Malama Artist: Patrick Chikoloma Artist: Arthur Chileshe Artist: Belinda Kaputula Artist: Charlotte Groen
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium Scale (400 seats) Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Four Number of performers on stage: Three Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: N/A
17 Afronauts
Circus Zambia, Barefoot Theatre & Wake the Beast Zambia Circus, Theatre, Gig & Protest Tour - Ready Friday 26 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 20:00 TBC
“This performance is inspired by Edward Nkoloso, the guy that wanted to go to the moon from Zambia. The show is inspired because though he was from a place that didn't have resources, he dreamt and pushed through with his ideas, only to be charged by the president of Zambia, at the time Dr Kenneth Kaunda, because of his popularity.”
Circus Zambia does social circus and educational programs on HIV/AIDS and social inclusion. Both workshops are ready to share with audiences. Circus Zambia is a contemporary circus- a first of its kind in Zambia. Circus Zambia equips young people with circus, social-life skills, educational and job opportunities. Circus Zambia was founded in 2015 by young people who wanted to create a movement to make change in their society. Circus Zambia now owns a three hundred seater theatre and reaches over 5000 people through interventions and performances in Zambia.
18 Col'jam
Contact information
CInstagontact:ram: Ahlam @misslind_sea El Morsli Position: Artistic Director Address: Oulfa, Casablanca, Alia 1, Street 28, N 98, Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, 20230 Country: Morocco Mobile: +21265657761 Email: [email protected] Web: coljam.ma Facebook: @Coljam Production information Title of piece: Rouh (Soul) Artform: Dance Age suitability: All ages Use of text: No Use of music: Recorded Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel Choreographer & Dancer: Ahlam El Morsli Choreographer & Dancer: Wajdi Gagui
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium Scale (400 seats) Appropriate setting: Indoor & Outdoor Number of people on tour: Two Number of performers on stage: Two Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Outreach
19 “A performance where the soul binds to being, lights up on its trajectory towards the essence of life, divine, immortal and suffering in the body”- Today Morocco, 2019
Rouh
Col’jam Morocco Dance Tour - Ready Saturday 27 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 17:00 kykNET Scaena Theatre
Rouh is a gestural interpretation of the liberating energy source of creation. It ties and unties the real and the unreal of spiritual space. A desire rooting to anchor the adventure of life on a new spiritual horizon through the dance of the Whirling Dervish. Rouh (literally in depth), plunges us into the essence of life, both divine and immortal.
Col'jam wants to promote cultural diversity and make it a permanent necessity in Morocco, allowing greater accessibility for all. It also seeks to highlight different artistic trends, particularly contemporary dance associated with street art, graphic art, visual art and music. Col'jam promotes creation, dissemination and training. Its aim is to leada professional team who explores the development of experimental practice.
20 Kwasha! Theatre Company
Contact information
Contact: Aalliyah Zama Matintela Position: Director Address: 138 Lilian Ngoyi Street , Newtown, Johannesburg , Gauteng, 2197 Country: South Africa Mobile: +27 787547804 Telephone: +27 731319899 Email: [email protected] Web: marketlab.co.za Instagram: @kwashagram Facebook: @Kwasha Theatre Company Production information
Title of piece: Currently (G)old Artform: Theatre & Drama Age suitability: 13+ Use of text: Medium Use of music: None Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Co-Director: Sinenhlanhla Mgeyi Co-Director: Aalliyah Zama Matintela Cast member: Thuli Nduvane Cast member: Sibahle Mangena Cast member: Molatelo Maffa Cast member: Vusi Nkwenkwezi Stage manager: Aalliyah Zama Matintela Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Six Number of performers on stage: Four Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Educational work
21 Winners of the: The Standard Bank Bronze Ovation Award and the Best Ensemble Award - National Arts Festival
Currently (G)old
The Market Lab South Africa Theatre & Drama Tour - Ready work to a global artistic network through collaboration 20:00 and conversation. 'Kwasha!' is an isiZulu interjection Saturday 27 June 2020 which, loosely translated means, 'it's on fire!' Albert Wessels Auditorium
Currently (G)Old is a powerful, gripping and playful Delegates Notes: rehashing of South African history depicted through physical storytelling. The dynamic cast juxtaposes historical events with contemporary issues the youth in South Africa are currently faced with. This energetic show puts a fresh take on politics and the contemporary state of South Africa
Kwasha! Theatre Company, a collaborative project between the Market Theatre Laboratory and The Windybrow Arts Centre, was launched in 2018. Each year, six of South Africa’s most exciting emerging theatre makers are identified as members of the company and work together to create an exciting programme of new and dynamic theatre pieces. Some successful works to date include The Little Prince (2018), Currently (G)old (2019) and Rhinoceros (2019). Kwasha! thrives on making work that is bold and confronts our current socio- economic environment. Work that dares black South Africans, in particular, to dream past their current realities. As recently graduated professional artists, not only does Kwasha! want to grapple with South African issues, but also aims to expose South African
22 Lindsey Abudei
Contact information
Contact: Lindsey Abudei Position: Artist Address: 6 Badaru Street, Lekki II. Lagos , 101245 Country: Nigeria Mobile: +234 703 849 5095 Email: [email protected] Web: lindseyabudei.com Instagram: @misslind_sea Twitter: @misslind_sea Facebook: @lindseyabudeimusic Production information Title of piece: ...And the Bass Is Queen. Artform: Music Age suitability: All ages Use of text: Light Use of music: Live & Recorded Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel Guitarist & Vocal: Lindsey Abudei
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium Scale (400 seats) Appropriate setting: Indoor & Outdoor Number of people on tour: Four Number of performers on stage: One Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Outreach
23 “ Her music is an earthy mix of jazz, soul and alternative, creating an elegant contemporary sound.” - Beth Achitsa, MAPAS music Conference
...And the Bass Is Queen.
Lindsey Abudei Nigeria Music Tour - Ready 25 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 20:00 Dutch Embassy VIP Area
In...And the Bass Is Queen, Lindsey Abudei brings a showcase of stripped-down, acoustic live sessions of songs from her latest album. The acoustic set-up is small scale, 3-person set— vocals, two guitars and a double bass.
After obtaining a degree in Law, she went into music full-time. She worked as a backup-singer for South African artist Sonti Mndebele during her Nigerian tour and also featured in MI Abaga's Talk About It album, Illegal Music . Jesse Jagz Jag Of All Trades album and has worked with Kahli Abdu amongst others. In 2013, she released her first EP Brown, which made her an award winner of the Radio France Internationale (RFI) Prix Découvertes.”
24 Lulu Mlangeni
Contact information
Contact: Nonkululeko Thabede Position: Production Manager Address: 489 A, Isigwe Street, Zone 6 Meadowlands, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1852 Country: South Africa Mobile: +27 722383392 Email: [email protected] Instagram: @lulumlangeni Facebook: @LuluMlangeni Production information
Title of piece: The Encounter Artform: Dance Age suitability: All ages Use of text: Light Use of music: Recorded Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Lighting and set designer: Oliver Hauser Dance Language Advisor: Gladys Agulhas Dramaturgy: Andile Nebulane Sound designer: Bonginkosi Motha Techical director: Oliver Hauser Dancer: Bafikile Sedibe Dancer & Choreographer: Lulu Mlangeni Costume designer: Mapule Sesedinyane Touring information Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Four Number of performers on stage: Two Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Outreach
25 The Encounter
Lulu Mlangeni South Africa Dance Tour - Ready In 2014 she became the first recipient of the Thursday 25 June 2020 Sophie Mgcina Best Emerging Voice Award supported 18:30 by the Market Theatre. In 2018, with support from the kykNET Scaena Theatre DAC Incubator programme, she choreographed and presented Con ned at the Market Theatre. “The Encounter is a duet in a dialogue that explores subtleties that undermine the potential for a smooth Delegates Notes: flow of relationships between genders. In The Encounter the duo is bent on trampling the tenuous line that stealthily continues to set creatures of co-existence apart as if they are an accident of nature and the universe. Human anatomy and physiology are attributes that are meant to swing the pendulum in a manner that should dispel gender stereotypes. The platform of harmony derives its stability from the magic of equal attraction between the weak and the strong.The Encounter creates social awareness of the power we each exude, which may be used to build or destroy ourselves”.
Lulu Mlangeni was an award winner for the most outstanding female dancer 2007 in contemporary style for Dance Umbrella Festival. In 2011 she was commissioned by Dance Umbrella to choreograph Questioned Mark that premiered at the Wits Downstairs Theatre. She is the 2010 winner of So You Think You Can Dance Season 2 South Africa and choreographed Season 3 for the show.
26 Nobonke van Tonder
Contact information
Contact: Nobonke van Tonder Position: Performer Address: 24 Beach Rd, Muizenberg, Cape Town, Western Cape, 7945 Country: South Africa Mobile: +27 832544669 Telephone: +27 832544669 Email: [email protected] Web: theimageofyourperfection.com
Production information
Title of piece: Dans, Mandela Dans! Artform: Dance Age suitability: All ages Use of text: Medium Use of music: Recorded Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Artistic Director: Nobonke Van Tonder
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Three Number of performers on stage: One Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Real-time authentic movement for students of post-dramatic performance capabilities
27 Dans, Mandela Dans!
Nobonke van Tonder South Africa Dance Tour - Ready 28 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 09:00 Albert Wessels Auditorium
Dans, Mandela Dans! is a one-woman performance danced to the significant speeches of Nelson Mandela over decades of his prominence as a proponent of democracy in South Africa. The work displays the multifaceted interpretations of his words within the context of national liberation and, as performed by a White Female Body. However, it is also performed as the undergirding of the liberation of humanity within the richly nuanced interpretation of this term.
Dancer-psychologist, writer, mentor, specialist in the field of dynamic transformation giving opportunities to unleash what is invisible and intelligible in the human being, group and organisation. Immersion is experience at the leading edge of thought — the furthest extension of that thought. It is the best tool with which we help ourselves away from limited ways of seeing. You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you. Philosophy and tools of creativity and wisdom evoke new desires, a particular life force. This work is ancient and yet, not been born, except at the moment of rapture.
28 Sotact Entertainment
Contact information
Contact: Seun Olota Position: Coordinator Address: 32, Lanre Awolokun Street, Gbagada Phase-2, Lagos, +2341 Country: Nigeria Mobile: +2348063029359 Email: [email protected] Web: seunolota.com Instagram: @seun_olota Twitter: @SeunOlota Facebook: @olotaseun Production information
Title of piece: We Are Together Artform: Music Age suitability: All ages Use of text: No text Use of music: Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: Yoruba and Pidgin English Key personnel
Drum: Samuel Adegbite Bass Guitar: Tolulope Adeniyi Saxophone and Vocals: Seun Olota Rhythm Guitar: Jonathan Edeipo Saxophone: Akinyanmi Akinhinmola Percussion: Alfred Trumpet & Bandleader: Andrew Ahunsimere Touring information
Scale of show: Large Scale (850 + seats) Appropriate setting: Indoor & Outdoor Number of people on tour: 8 Number of performers on stage: 7 Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
29 We Are Together
Sotact Entertainment Nigeria Music Tour - Ready representation, bookings, self organized music tours, Sunday 28 June 2020 partnership projects, showcases, festival appearances 21:00 and weekly live performances. Olota is currently Dutch Embassy VIP Area shortlisted on the official selection of the 2020 Sauti za Busara Festival Tanzania and he is a current We Are Together is a music project that questions Laureat of the Institute Francais. humanity’s gradual aloofness towards empathy and kindred spirit. We rather say Umuntu for the sake of Delegates Notes: the fashion than acting it by sharing with, caring for and protecting the vulnerable around us. This project is initiated on the ideology of communal-living in the traditional African setting as a prototype to interrogate values of modern times and reminds us all as we keep quiet or look away from the mishaps of others, that we also ignore our own peace. We exist, because they exist too. This project employs the West African music styles of Afrobeat, Highlife and Dundun music as a driving force with horn section arrangements and riffs from the Bebop era with percussive equilibrium that carries the African identity. Its songs’ messages interrogate political gimmicks, social band-wagonism and the new-culture assumptions.
Sotact Entertainment began operation in 2004 but was registered under the Nigerian Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) in 2008 and has over the years managed the projects of Seun Olota, among which are:
30 The Market Theatre Laboratory
Contact information
Contact: Clara Vaughan Position: Head: Market Theatre Laboratory Address: 138 Lilian Ngoyi Street , Newtown, Johannesburg , Gauteng, 2197 Country: South Africa Mobile: +27 724334311 Telephone: 011 838 7498 Email: [email protected] Web: marketlab.co.za Instagram: @The Market Lab Twitter: @The Market Lab Facebook: @The Market Theatre Laboratory Production information
Title of piece: Eclipsed: Phifalo ya ngwedi Artform: Theatre & Drama Age suitability: 16+ Use of text: Medium Use of music: None Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Playwright: Gina Shmukler in collaboration with Market Lab first year students 2019 Director: Sylvaine Strike Choreographer: Phumlani Mndebele Costume designer: Andrea van der Kuil Stage manager: Sibusiso Ndumndum Cast members: Chaunees Bokaba, Kgomotso Moshia, Kgothatso Makwala, Khanyisile Zwane, Melusi Molefe, Moagi Kai, Nicola Niehaus, Philangezwi Nxumalo, Pretty-Boy Sekhoto, Rethabile Headbush, Scout Fynn, Siphesihle Fakude, Sydney Ndlovu, Tebogo Malapane, Tshepo Matlala
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Sixteen Number of performers on stage: Fifteen Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Educational work
31 Eclipsed: Phifalo ya ngwedi
The Market Lab South Africa Theatre & Drama Tour - Ready recognised on multiple platforms for creating excellent Sunday 28 June 2020 theatre that engages with human rights issues, and has 16:00 created numerous acclaimed and award-winning plays. kykNET Scaena Theatre Deeply embedded in the ethos of the Market Lab is its commitment to providing opportunities to talented Sylvaine Strike directs the Market Theatre Laboratory youth from disadvantaged backgrounds who would not students in collaboration with Gina Shmukler and otherwise be able to pursue their passion for the arts. Phumlani Mndebele, offering an electrifying journey The Market Lab aims to provide skills, knowledge and into the heart of Life Esidimeni. Can meaning be found in opportunity for these emerging creatives to tell chaos? The company have drawn on testimonies, articles, important South African stories that might otherwise documentaries, news bulletins, and the commission go untold. The intensive and comprehensive training it statements that cross-examined the government offers develops its students into young professionals officials responsible for this unspeakable tragedy, who have the capacity, experience and knowledge to to devise a powerful physical interpretaion of this event build careers in a highly competitive industry. and its aftermath. Delegates Notes: The Market Theatre Laboratory aims to create an inspiring, and safe environment for students, theatre practitioners, collaborators, and audiences to flourish and grow through learning, exchange, experimentation, research and making, with an emphasis on creating space for subaltern experiences, voices and identities. Founded by Barney Simon and Dr John Kani in 1988, it is the education and development arm of the world famous Market Theatre, and has developed into one of the premiere facilities of its kind in Southern Africa. It has trained exceptional performers and theatre-makers, the Lab has been
32 Blank Canvas Kollective
Contact information
Contact: Danieyella Rodin Position: Project Manager Address: 17 Glasgow Road, Westdene, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2092 Country: South Africa Mobile: +27 737966466 Telephone: +27 737966466 Email: [email protected] Web: theatre4youth.co.za/production/night-light Instagram: @blankcanvaskollective Facebook: @@blankcanvaskollective Production information
Title of piece: Night/Light Artform: Multi-disciplinary Age suitability: All ages Use of text: Light Use of music: Recorded & Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: Yes Key personnel
Performer/Project Manager: Danieyella Rodin Director/Designer: Tamara Guhrs Musician: David Cornwell
Touring information
Scale of show: Small scale up to 100 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor (outdoor only at night and with at least two electricity sources) Number of people on tour: Four Number of performers on stage: Two Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
33 “Dear Night Light! We all loved the show and the activities, but I think I enjoyed it the most. Thank You!" ” - Sacred Heart Learner, 2019
Night/Light
Blank Canvas Kollective South Africa Multi-disciplinary Work in Progress Friday 26 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 10:30 Soetdoring Gazellie
Night/Light uses live music, video projection, shadows, light-play and live performance to explore a night in the life of a young girl trying to deal with racing thoughts. It evokes moments when we feel alone: afraid of the dark, experiencing changes and challenges – unable to express ourselves. For 9-11 year olds caught at a delicate time – between the expectations of growing up and still haunted by childhood fears – this magical, mysterious piece encourages children to listen to their inner voice
Night/Light is Blank Canvas Kollective’s debut offering for children and marks their move to being focused on creating high quality work for young audiences. The idea for Night/Light was born in an Assitej workshop around creating work for Primary School Children.
34 Bokang Lefoko Theatre
Contact information
Contact: Sizakele Mdi Position: Choreographer Address: 29 Krygs, Fleurdal, Bloemfontein, Free State, 9301 Country: South Africa Mobile: +27 795741619 Telephone: +27 795741619 Email: [email protected] Facebook: @Sizakele Nontuthuzelo Mdi Production information
Title of piece: Ndiboleke ingubo Artform: Work in Progress Age suitability: 13+ Use of text: Medium Use of music: Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Choreographer: Sizakele Mdi Stage manager: Jojo Mokirisi Dancer: Motlatsi Khotle Dancer: Kgotsofalang Moshe Dancer: Thabo Moroe
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Eight Number of performers on stage: Eight Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Outreach
35 Ndiboleke ingubo
Bokang Lefoko Theatre South Africa Dance Work in Progress Friday 26 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 11:30 Soetdoring Gazellie
Ndiboleke ingubo is a dance piece on femicide. It looks into the psyche of men who have killed and embodies them into one. It takes place in a prison where the dead father tries to convince the murderer to atone before his death. This production was created to address the fear of #AMINEXT?! Bokang Lefoko Theatre, established in 2019 is led by Sizakele Mdi an award winning choreographer. The company was created to meet a need for community and educational skills development and to produce compelling cutting edge contemporary theatre works that can represent the Free State at large.
36 Company Chabarwa
Contact information
Contact: Tatenda Chabarwa Position: Co-founder/Dancer Address: 25 Hombasha Mbare National Avenue , 29 Hombasha Mbare National Avenue, Harare, +263 Country: Zimbabwe Mobile: +263772980185 Telephone: +263772980185 Email: [email protected] Instagram: @Company_Chabarwa Facebook: @Tatenda Chabarwa-Company Chabarwa Production information
Title of piece: Shhhh Artform: Dance Age suitability: All ages Use of text: No text Use of music: Recorded & Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Dancer & Choreographer: Tatenda Chabarwa Poet: Kimberly Silibaziso Chuka Poet: Conelious Makuvachuma Dancer: Dexter Mushore
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Four Number of performers on stage: Four Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
37 “ Politically & socially charged. Defiantly awesome” - Mafuwe International Dance Festival
Shhhh Company Chabarwa Zimbabwe Dance Work in Progress Thursday 25 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 14:30 Albert Wessels Auditorium
Shhh is a duet that was developed from a solo work created and performed by Tatenda Chabarwa. Shhh is inspired and created by the questions that the choreographer ask themselves day-to-day. Shhh is a contemporary dance theatre piece that tells the story with emotional movements and poems being the music that brings movements it’s true purpose. This choreographic work is a duet with four bodies on stage.This is a very emotional work and it relates to people very easily, and allows the audience to create their own story.
Company Chabarwa is a unique structured dance company established by Tatenda Chabarwa to develop the knowledge and skills in contemporary dance, to fuse this knowledge with the richness of Zimbabwean culture and build the efforts already in place mainly in the Zimbabwean society. Company Chabarwa has performed in Namibia, Zimbabwe and Japan collaborating with Jerahuni Movement Factory. Currently the company is working on projects, including dance classes at the College Of The Arts in Namibia.
38 Kirvan Fortuin Foundation
Contact information
Contact: Kirvan Fortuin Position: Artistic Director Address: 7064 Sheikh Yusuf Avenue, Macassar, Cape Town Cape Town, Western Cape, 7134 Country: South Africa Mobile: +27 720470310 Email: [email protected] Instagram: @House of le Cap Facebook: @Kiki House of le cap Production information
Title of piece: Mof-Tof Artform: Dance Age suitability: All ages Use of text: Dense Use of music: Recorded & Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes, Gayle Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Choreographer: Kirvan Fortuin Dancers: Fortuin Dance Theatre & House of le Cap Director: Prof Emeritus Elizabeth Triegaardt Costume Designer: Gert-Johan Coetzee DJ: DJ Maramza Production Manager: Nadine Lagger
Touring information
Scale of show: Large scale up to 800 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Twelve Number of performers on stage: Twelve Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
39 Mof-Tof
Kirvan Fortuin Foundation South Africa Dance Work in Progress Wits Theatre, Artscape Theatre, Baxter Theatre, Friday 26 June 2020 Suidoosterfees, Vrystaat Kunstefees, US Woordfees 17:00 (flagship production), and Oude Libertas Amphitheatre. kykNET Rep Theatre House of le Cap is the first ballroom house in Africa and since it was established in 2017 the ballroom Mof-Tof is a new two part ballet choreographed by community has grown significantly in Cape Town. Kirvan Fortuin in collaboration with House of le Cap. House of le Cap has had balls across South Africa Set to the score of Franz Schubert’s String Quartet No.14 including Mthatha, Mdantsane, and Bloemfontein in D Minor otherwise known as Death and the Maiden. closing the Vrystaat Arts Festival in 2019. A new composition by an industry professional DJ from House of le Cap looks into what it means to be queer. Mof-Tof is a celebration of identity, culture, Delegates Notes: music and dance looking particularly into the LGBTIQ+ community, focusing on the transgender and the ballroom scene. The production is a multicultural, interdisciplinary dance works that seamlessly blends dance, fashion, music and text. Rooted in a very classical structure, the choreography fuses vogue dance elements with urban dances, whilst deconstructing the classical ballet structure. Fortuin Dance Theatre is a professional, neo-classical dance company based in Cape Town. The company was started in 2016 when it had its first South African and Dutch tour. Since then the company has performed across the world, with tours to the Netherlands, Switzerland, US, and Belgium and at several festivals and theatres in South Africa including Dance Umbrella Johannesburg,
40 Lola Oduwole
Contact information
Contact: Lola Oduwole Position: Performer Address: Rijkeklarenstraat 24, Ledeberg, 9050 Country: Belgium Mobile: +32474990631 Telephone: +32474990631 Email: [email protected] Facebook: @Lola Oduwole Production information
Title of piece: Lest we Forget Artform: Theatre & Drama Age suitability: 13+ Use of text: Dense Use of music: Recorded & Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Performer: Lola Oduwole
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Three Number of performers on stage: One Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: No Outreach and educational work: Educational
41 Lest we Forget Lola Oduwole Belgium Theatre & Drama Work in Progress Thursday 25 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 15:30 Albert Wessels Auditorium
Lest we forget... traces the paths of three characters: a Nigerian man, a Jamaican man and a Ghanaian grandmother and their involvement in WW1. Both men volunteer and the grandmother watches as her grandson is coerced into joining a war which they only have a tenuous connection. The piece interlaces text and song, image and sound and explores the soldiers' experiences during WWI. Poignant is the way these protagonists had no true understanding of what they were letting themselves into. However their solid allegiance is to the 'crown' and the colonial lie that they were considered British subjects and part of the 'Motherland'. To volunteer fuels their personal ambition to discover the world and also to escape from their own domesticities. The piece is performed by a woman who enacts their journeys.
Oduwole trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as a classical singer, and worked in opera in key opera houses in the UK and in music theatre projects in Belgium. She acted as a workshop voice coach for socially- considerate projects in Flanders and Belgium.
42 Mafa Dance Village
Contact information
Contact: Mafa Makhubalo Position: Founder/Artistic Dorector Address: 2912-2699 Battleford Road, Mississauga, Ontario, L5N 3R9 Country: Canada Mobile: +16477612512 Telephone: +16477612512 Email: [email protected] Web: mafadancevillage.dance Instagram: @yebo_yes_mafa_ Twitter: @mafa_stoma Facebook: @mafa dance village Production information
Title of piece: Lentswe La Setjhaba "Voice of the Nation" Artform: Dance Age suitability: All ages Use of text: No text Use of music: Recorded & Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Artistic Director: Mafa Makhubalo Manager: Yumiko Kiuchi Dancer: Tamla Matthews Dancer: Emilie Jabouin Dancer: Aisha Nicholson Musician: Teddy Masuko Musician: Brain Moyo Musician: Walter Maclean
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor & Outdoor Number of people on tour: Eight Number of performers on stage: Seven Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
43 Lentswe La Setjhaba
Mafa Dance Village Canada Dance Work in Progress Montreal. Mafa Dance Village, has presented at various Saturday 27 June 2020 festivals, Dance Immersion (Celebrating Our Men in 21:15 Dance and Footsteps Across Canada), the International kykNET Rep Theatre Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) in Toronto, Body Percussion Festival, Dance Ontario Dance Weekend and Lentswe la Setjhaba (Voice of the Nation) is a Contemporaneity Series 1.0. 45 minute, multi-disciplinary choreography that hybridises African traditional aesthetic with African contemporary culture, specifically the urban dance form Delegates Notes: Panstula, Afro-House, African Traditional dance and Gumboots in relation to the rhythm of our everyday life memories. “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead,” said Nelson Mandela. The work is inspired by the legacy of Nelson Mandela - the idea of a “Rainbow Nation”, his passion to move forward from the past to the future as one nation.
After moving to Toronto, Canada, Mafa Mafa Dance continued to seek professional development from senior artists, Milton Myers (Alvin Alley American Theatre senior instructor), Danny Grossman (Danny Grossman Dance Company), Debbie Wilson (OMO Dance Theatre), Gabby Kamino (Senior contemporary teacher), and has collaborated with Collective Of Black Artist, Ballet Creole Company, OMO Dance Theatre, and Nyata-nyata in
44 Rightaboutnow Inc
Contact information
Contact: Rola Nassar Position: Artists coordination/International relations Address: Ben van Meerendonkstraat 57, Amsterdam, Noord Holland, 1087 LB Country: The Netherlands Mobile: +31203417027 Telephone: +31611808465 Email: [email protected] Web: rightaboutnowinc.com Instagram: @rightaboutnowinc Facebook: @rightaboutnowinc Production information
Title of piece: I'd had enough so I Killed him Artform: Dance Age suitability: 16+ Use of text: Light Use of music: Recorded Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Choreographer: Sherise Strang Artistic coordinator: Maarten van Hinte
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Four Number of performers on stage: One Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
45 I'd had enough so I killed him
Rightaboutnow Inc. The Netherlands Dance Work in Progress Sunday 28 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 10:30 Albert Wessels Auditorium
I'd had enough so I killed him is about Maya Angelou, a woman who fought her whole life as an activist for black women in America and is now mainly known as a writer and poet. The piece is about a search for being, seeing and wanting to be seen. A search for identity, security and strength. A search for conviction and being judged. In I'd had enough so I killed him Sherise washes off all the dirt to get to her core - to make it visible. Powerful and vulnerable. Condemnation and wanting to be judged. Rightaboutnow Inc. is an interdisciplinary urban performing arts centre and production house based in Amsterdam. For the company diversity is the most powerful force for artisticsocial change and innovation. They bring artists from different cultures, disciplines and subcultures together and channel their diversity into artistic expressions by being a platform for new voices in an old city like Amsterdam. They produce performing art work by young artists, festivals, events and visual art exhibits and focus on coaching young creatives.
46 Stev'N-T
Contact information
Contact: Tarpade Mianmarde Stephane Position: Artist Address: District Moursal/ Street 5031/House 744, N'Djamena, N'Djamena, 11 Country: Chad Mobile: +0023598747232 Telephone: +0023566453344 Email: [email protected] Instagram: @stevntofficiel Twitter: @stevntarpade Facebook: @steventarpade Production information
Title of piece: A toute épreuve Artform: Music Age suitability: All ages Use of text: Dense Use of music: Recorded & Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes, French Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Lead vocal: Stev'N-T Artistic director: Moussa Aimé Drummer: Rickbell Guitarist: Body Solo
Touring information
Scale of show: Large scale up to 850 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor & Outdoor Number of people on tour: Seven Number of performers on stage: Five Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
47 A toute épreuve
Stev'N-T Chad Music Work in Progress Saturday 27 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 15:30 kykNET Rep Theatre
The album entitled Foolproof was launched in March 2019 in N'Djamena, Chad and has had 250 legal downloads to date. It's an album that speaks of hope and realizing dreams. It is tinged with diverse musical genres including a mixture of Chad rhythms such as Sai, Bayan, the Ndo and Fanani associated with the ‘colors’ of the rap style of the artist. Various social and political topics are covered in the lyrics and songs.
Stev'NT (Tarpade Mianmarde) also known as Tonton Le Blanc because of the success of one of his songs, is a young rapper artist who made his name as an actor representing the Association Jeunesse Anti-Cleavage (AJAC). In 2002 he began the rap groups Intifadah and Djaraa-B and by 2018, he was one of 19 finalists for the AfriMusic Song Contest, and won the distinction of Annex Francophonie Awards, subsequently awarded for the best French musical contribution.
48 Thami Tshabalala
Contact information
Contact: Thabiso Tshabalala Position: Executive Producer Address: 3 Wilstead Court, 50 Leonard Street, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2190 Country: South Africa Mobile: +27 614184138 Email: [email protected]
Production information
Title of piece: Simon Artform: Dance Age suitability: All ages Use of text: No Text Use of music: Recorded Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Choreographer and Dancer: Thamsanqa Tshabalala Executive Producer: Thabiso Tshabalala Assistant Director: Zolani Shangase Production Manager: Ipeleng Merafe Voiceover: Artist Khutjo Green Vocal Production: Umlilo Ngcobo Marketing and Publicity: Khameleon Kreatives Lighting Designer: Motlotlo Makhobotlane Costume Designer: Henk Opperman Set Designer: Drikus van der Merwe Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Three Number of performers on stage: One Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: No Outreach and educational work: Yes
49 "Brave and compelling - saw it at the Dance Umbrella Africa. Thami Tshabalala is certainly an artist to watch. I see the future in artists like him! I would have seen it again if it was not clashing with my shows" - Gregory Vuyani Maqoma
Simon
Thami Tshabalala South Africa Dance Work in Progress The company’s primary foundation is rooted in the Sunday 28 June 2020 field of reincarnating South African dance in theatre 11:30 for the betterment of a secure foundation and platform Albert Wessels Auditorium for this slowly developing art form. The Director has co- choreographed the Standard Bank Ovation Simon tells the story of anti-apartheid student leader Award-winning works SINS for Grahamstown National and founder of the black gay movement in South Africa, Arts Festival in 2013 and NO AIR in 2014. In 2015 he Simon Tseko Nkoli. “The motive behind the inception of choreographed a work for the South African team to this production stems from the passion I have as an artist represent at the World Gymnastrada in Finland. and choreographer to tell people’s stories. We have a vast archive of stories which are deeply rooted in Africa, Delegates Notes: which have not seen the light of day” says Tshabalala. “I came across Simon Tseko Nkoli’s story and his life’s journey and the values he stood for connected deeply with me. This motivated me to acknowledge and appreciate the history we have, see it as art and put it onto a canvas.” Simon pays homage to the legend himself; anti-apartheid, HIV activist and father of the LGBTI community in South Africa. The narrative details the fruitful journey of his struggles, triumphs, social acceptance and pure expression of himself to the brim of his existence.
‘Thami Tshabalala’ is a newly established company, founded and registered in August 2018 based in the heart of the city of gold- Johannesburg, under the directorship of Thamsanqa Tshabalala.
50 Theatre Emissary International
Contact information
Contact: Charles Etubiebi Position: Performer Address: No 48 Olorunlogbon Street Anthony Village, Lagos, Nigeria. Lagos , 100232 Country: Nigeria Mobile: +2348165712106 Telephone: +2349025054159 Email: [email protected] Web: theatreemissary.wixsite.com Instagram: @CharlesEtubiebi Twitter: @CharlesEtubiebi Facebook: @CharlesEtubiebi Production information
Title of piece: 54 Silhouettes Artform: Theatre & Drama Age suitability: All ages Use of text: Medium Use of music: Recorded Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Writer & Director: Africa Ukoh Stage manager: Alechenu Abel Producer: Taiwo Afolabi Performer: Charles Etubiebi
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor & Outdoor Number of people on tour: Four Number of performers on stage: One Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: N/A
51 “ Let the world know. That. The Nigerians are coming. ” - Jude Idada, 2019
54 Silhouettes
Theatre Emissary International Nigeria Theatre & Drama Work in Progress Saturday 27 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 14:30 kykNET Rep Theatre
Victor Chimezie, a struggling Nigerian actor pursuing big dreams in Hollywood, finally gets the biggest opportunity of his career when his agent, Sonny Chuks, lands him a part in a blockbuster action film. There’s a big shot producer backing the project and the lead actor is a mega star. It’s fame and fortune knocking, everything he and Sonny have bled for over the years. There’s only one problem. The movie, Victor comes to discover, is exactly what he swore he would never do: another ‘war in Africa’ film. Trapped between career ambitions and ideals of his African identity, Victor must decide whether to do the damn film or ditch it. Theatre Emissary International is a cultural outfit based in Nigeria that utilizes diverse art forms to educate, conscientize and create positive social change in the society. Theatre Emissary International, with the acronym (TEM-i), carries out its mission through stage performances, acting, theatre workshops, applied theatre outreaches, film production and research. This organization consists of artists and scholars from a wide range of artistic backgrounds from playwriting, acting, cinematography, directing, education, and technical theatre among others.
52 Mrisi Live
Contact information
Contact: Mrisi Makondo-Wills Position: Artist Address: 8b, First Avenue, LONDON, E13 8AR Country: United Kingdom Mobile: +447792500915 Telephone: +447792500915 Email: [email protected] Web: mafadancevillage.dance Instagram: @mrisimusic Twitter: @mrisimusic Facebook: @mrisimusic Production information
Title of piece: Mrisi Live Artform: Multi-disciplinary Age suitability: 16+ Use of text: No text Use of music: Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Artist: Mrisi Makondo-Wills Backing vocalist: Sylvia Mwenze Backing vocalist: Scarlett Fletcher Drummer: Darren Adjei Saxophonist: Natty Rasamurai Bass: Keenan Bailey Guitar: Louis Squire Management: Naadia Kidy Videographer: Malik Tokwe
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor & Outdoor Number of people on tour: Nine Number of performers on stage: Seven Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
53 “ ..it’s clear that Mrisi is on an upward curve to prominence.” - LOST CULTURE
Mrisi Live
Who’s Got Game United Kingdom Theatre & Drama Work in Progress Friday 26 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 16:00 kykNET Rep Theatre
Mrisi Live is a live hip hop and jazz experience featuring drums, saxophone, bass, guitar, backing vocals and keys. Sounds of South Africa fused with gritty British rap narrative and memorable vocals delivered by Brit- South African pianist/singer/rapper Mrisi. Stories range from immigration to black lives matter to conflicts of identity. “I’ve been interested in music as a form of expression from a young age, putting out YouTube videos and working with other artists to express ourselves creatively. After obtaining my degree in Commercial Music in London, I knew I wanted to carve a career as a recording artist. I studied the business of a real working record label when I assisted on artist Natty’s release of his second album. It was on this job I met his label manager who would later become my manager.” Mrisi Makondo-Wills has released several singles, worked on building a team including public relations officers, a vocal coach, record labels and creative collaborators, built a commercial studio his home and works with youth services providing education and support in the music field.
54 Decolonising the Archive
Contact information
Contact: Etienne Joseph Position: Writer & Director Address: 1 Windrush Square, Brixton. London, SW2 1EF Country: United Kingdom Mobile: +447448137274 Telephone: +447448137274 Email: [email protected] Web: decolonisingthearchive.com Instagram: @de_archive Twitter: @de_archive Facebook: @de_archive Production information
Title of piece: The Race To Futurity Artform: Theatre & Drama Age suitability: 16+ Use of text: Light Use of music: Recorded Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Creative Director: Etienne Joseph Writer & Director: Connie Bell Actor: Nadine Woodley Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: One Number of performers on stage: One Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
55 The Race To Futurity
Decolonising the Archive United Kingdom Theatre & Drama Pitching Friday 26 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 14:30 Albert Wessels Auditorium
“We activate the Pan - African archive to (re) imagine our future-selves. Applied theatre, film and audio collide, embodying and reconfiguring the past in the present - disrupting the archive and our conceptions of its limits”.
Decolonising the Archive (DTA) was established in 2014 with the aim of developing a holistic methodology for working with the heritage of African people. A modular collective led by an archivist /film maker and a theatre practitioner. DTA has delivered several public interventions since its inauguration. Driven by an ideology which holds independence and integrity above well-funded institutional reach and empty impact figures, DTA remains a small but consistently evolving organisation which over the past five years has developed and toured programmes with internationally acclaimed artists, written, produced and staged plays, published books and directed films - all with the heritage, culture and independence of Africa and its diaspora as a primary concern.
56 Instinct Pictures
Contact information
Contact: Emmanuel Okocha Position: Producer Address: 24, Adisa coker street, Ogba Ikeja Lagos Country: Nigeria Mobile: +0803 770 5900 Telephone: +07062667451 Email: [email protected] Web: instinctpictures.com Instagram: @instinctpictures Twitter: @aybabasala Facebook: @Ayodeji Adejumo Production information
Title of piece: SHADOWS Artform: Theatre and Drama Age suitability: 13+ Use of text: No Text Use of music: Recorded Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Performer & Writer: Ayodeji Adejumo Producer & Technical Personnel: Emmanuel Okocha Director: Taiwo Oluyomi
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor and Outdoor Number of people on tour: Two Number of performers on stage: One Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
57 Shadows
Instinct Pictures Nigeria Theatre & Drama Pitching Friday 26 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 14:30 Albert Wessels Auditorium
“Shadows is a play that addresses the issue of men not able to speak up on what they are going through due to societal beliefs. Being vulnerable does not make you less of a man. Charles got abused in all forms, his friend Oghenekome took his own life because men are wired to have inbuilt ego, we tends to bottle up our emotions, which makes us depressed and many of us commit suicide. It is OK to ask for help- it will not bruise your ego. Speak out on your abuse and get help” Mental health is a very sensitive issue.
Instinct Pictures is a brand new company that began with the commissioning of Shadows in May 2019. It is also a talent management company that manages actors, authors, musicians and the likes. The company is set to produce its first ever feature length film next year and two more stage productions titled Sour Grapes and The Grooms Men Affairs in 2020.
58 Mhayise Productions
Contact information
Contact: Musa Hlatshwayo Position: Artistic Director Address: 27 Marigny Road , Umbilo, Durban, KwaZulu Natal, 4001 Country: South Africa Mobile: +27 83 751 1146 Email: [email protected] Instagram: @Mhayise_Productions Facebook: @Mhayise Productions Production information
Title of piece: ABOMHLABA(THI) Artform: Dance Age suitability: 13+ Use of text: Light Use of music: Recorded & Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No
Key personnel
Artistsic Director: Musa Hlatshwayo Lighting Designer: Lerato Ledwaba Dancer: Njabulo Zungu Dancer: Aphelele Nyawose Dancer: Sinethemba Khuzwayo
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor & Outdoor Number of people on tour: Five Number of performers on stage: Three Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: No
59 “ ..a provocative exhibition of the aftermath of European Imperialism, and diabolical apartheid South Africa.” - Bhekani Biyela
Abomhlaba (thi)
Mhayise Productions South Africa Dance Pitching “We pride ourselves in our rich, Afro-futuristic Thursday 25 June 2020 contemporary performance aesthetic that is 11:30 continuously evolving with time”. kykNET Scaena Theatre
A contemporary dance theatre, full-length trio that Delegates Notes: highlights issues of black identity and landlessness in post-colonial and post-Apartheid South Africa. This piece is a creative fusion of dance theatre, imaginary, physical contact work, creative costume and powerfully expressive bodies in motion-all accompanied by a multi-layered soundscape of music, voice over work and spoken word. The work uses suitcases, a light touch of arch powered clay, cardboard boxes and machetes.
Mhayise Productions was started in 2006 and has since gathered many awards and accolades in the field of contemporary dance theatre as well as arts and dance education. Although currently unfunded, the company has 5 full time dance members, 2 trainees, a number of adhoc contributors and more than 15 youngsters who receive training every Saturday at no charge, while also getting employment opportunities. The company has a selection of socio-politically engaging small to large-scale repertoire that is ready to tour. It also specialise in creating and staging site-specific work or work that can be staged in none-conventional spaces.
60 Pakana Kanaplila
Contact information
Contact: Sinsa Mansell Position: Artistic Director Address: 77 Salamanca Place HOBART , TAS, 7001 Country: Tazmania Mobile: +0422370667 Email: [email protected] Web: situate.org.au/sinsa-mansell Facebook: @pakanakanapliladancers Production information
Title of piece: pakana kanaplila - our journey to reclaim Tasmanian Aboriginal culture through dance Artform: Dance Age suitability: All ages Use of text: No Text Use of music: Recorded & Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes, English Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No
Key personnel
Artistsic Director: Sinsa Mansell Artists Harley Mansell Artist: Jamie Graham
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor & Outdoor Number of people on tour: Three Number of performers on stage: Three Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
61 Pakana Kanaplila
Pakana Kanaplila Tazmania Dance Pitching Thursday 25 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 11:30 kykNET Scaena
“Pakana Kanaplila is a Tasmanian Aboriginal dance group, formed in 2003. We work at the forefront of restoring and reviving the traditional practices of Tasmania’s first peoples, who thrived and lived in harmony with the land for tens of thousands of years. This is the story of our journey and an explanation for how we can use our knowledge to help others connect to their culture and identity.” Pakana Kanaplila began with the goal of reanimating important knowledge and information on traditional cultural practices, with a primary focus on that which was shared through song and dance. In searching for any documentation of our ancient culture, it became clear that very little had been documented or available in the oral tradition being passed down from generation to generation. This led us to dive deeper and continue seeking information from archives. Our aim is to ensure that the next generation will not have to search the pages of history to learn our cultural traditions, they will experience it firsthand, from the members of their community.
62 Pawstudios
Contact information
Contact: Kenneth Uphopho Position: Director Address: 4 Adesoye Street Mende, Maryland Ikeja, Lagos, 10001 Country: Nigeria Mobile: +2348096360700 Email: [email protected] Instagram: @pawstudiosnigeria Twitter: @pawstudios Facebook: @pawstudios Production information
Title of piece: YARD SALE Artform: Theatre & Drama Age suitability: 13+ Use of text: Medium Use of music: Recorded & Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Producer: Brenda Fashugba Production Manager: Tope Sanni Director/writer/Performer: Kenneth Uphopho Technical Manager: Dotun Osa Stage Manager: Tobi Ogundipe
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Three Number of performers on stage: One Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: No Outreach and educational work: Yes
63 Yard Sale
Pawstudios Nigeria Theatre & Drama Pitching Thursday 25 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 11:30 kykNET Scaena Theatre
Yard Sale is an installation experience of a man coping with grief, who decides to auction off the properties which reminds him of the ones he has lost. What happens to the body and mind and heart when grieving? Is there a price tag on memory?. Yard Sale interrogates the concepts of death and human memory.
The Performing Arts Workshop & Studio (Pawstudios) has been a major force in the Nigerian media and productions scene since its establishment in 2011. The Company presented plays as a resident theatre company of the Theatre@Terra Project for 4 years and also presents work at its annual season of diverse productions tagged the Lagos Fringe at various venues across the city of Lagos. The Company reaches both electronically and physically, presenting at fairs and live events, Tv, touring productions throughout Nigeria and internationally. It plays annually to a combined audience in excess of 100,000. In recent years, the company's international profile has grown significantly with productions including Esther’s Revenge, Naked, Bridezilla, Colour Me Pink and Being Jane Doe set up for touring.
64 studio 180
Contact information
Contact: Franco Prinsloo Position: Collaborating Composer Address: nr 6 , du Plessis Street, Strand, Western Cape, 7140 Country: South Africa Mobile: +27 827106426 Email: [email protected] Instagram: @vox.chamber.choir Twitter: @choir_vox Facebook: @voxchamberchoirSA Production information
Title of piece: Please forgive me Artform: Multi-disciplinary Age suitability: 16+ Use of text: No text Use of music: Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Visual Artist: Sonya Rademeyer Composer: Franco Prinsloo In total there are 30 choir members belonging to VOX chamber choir
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Thirty - one Number of performers on stage: Thirty - one Availability for touring: From August 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: No Outreach and educational work: Yes
65 Please forgive me
studio 180 South Africa Multi-disciplinary Pitching Thursday 25 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 11:30 kykNET Scaena Theatre
Please forgive me is a collaboration between South African composer Franco Prinsloo and visual artist Sonya Rademeyer. The work attempts to open up conversations around forgiveness for the devastating effects of colonialism within Southern Africa. Moving from a particular white perspective the work focuses on how land dispossession and the implementation of borders has created traumatic divides and intentional separation. Working with the metaphor of the slain Oryx the video piece enacts the painful struggle of colonial entanglement. An attempt at honouring the Oryx is performed and a sacri ce of the white self is made to the land to express remorse for the atrocities of the past. “Franco Prinsloo and myself met in December 2018 after noticing his work Die Gebreekte Snaar (Broken String) which was performed live at IVC Rottterdam 2018. At the time I was exploring work related to The Broken String – a San lament of grief where the bow string no longer vibrates, sung by Xaa-ttin for the death of his friend the magician and rain maker Nuin-kui-ten – and we started exploring how our work might cross-pollinate and infuence one another”.
66 Theatrerocket
Contact information
Contact: Rudi Sadler Position: Director Address: PO Box 72764, Lynnwood Ridge, Pretoria, Gauteng, 0040 Country: South Africa Mobile: +27 824642113 Email: [email protected] Facebook: @Kamphoer Production information
Title of piece: Kamphoer – die verhaal van Susan Nell Artform: Theatre & Drama Age suitability: 13+ Use of text: Dense Use of music: Recorded Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes, Afrikaans Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Actor: Sandra Prinsloo Director: Lara Foot Set and lighting design: Patrick Curtis Sound design, soundscape and composition: Simon Kohler Costume design: Mariechen Vosloo and Birrie le Roux Script (stage adaption): Cecilia du Toit in collaboration with Sandra Prinsloo and Lara Foot Stage manager: Jeanne Steenkamp Producers: Theatrerocket Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Four Number of performers on stage: One Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: No Outreach and educational work: Yes
67 “ Intense and immensely gripping. Every aspect has worked in its favour, from the adaption, the directing and Sandra Prinsloo's insightful interpretation. Bravo.” - Francois Smith
Kamphoer – die verhaal van Susan Nel
Theatrerocket South Africa Theatre & Drama Pitching Friday 26 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 14:30 Albert Wessels Auditorium
Based on a true story, South African theatre legend Sandra Prinsloo appears in the challenging role of Susan Nell, who faced an unspeakable ordeal during the Anglo-Boer War (1899 - 1902) in the Winburg concentration camp. Following her father’s death during the war, Susan and her mother end up in a concentration camp where she is brutally raped and left for dead by two British officers and a joiner. She survives the ordeal and qualifies as a psychiatric nurse in the Netherlands. Sixteen years later, she travels to England during the First World War and while serving at a military hospital for shell-shocked soldiers, she recognises a patient as one of her rapists. With this unfortunate reunion, Susan is once again confronted with the pain and humiliation of her past. Theatrerocket Productions is the theatre producing company created in 2016 by producers Johan van der Merwe and Rudi Sadler. The company strives to produce new exciting and cutting edge work as well as breathing new life into existing scripts and adaption of important novels for stage.
68 Third World Bunfight
Contact information
Contact: Barbara Mathers Position: Managing Director Address: Third World Bunfight, 139 Main Road, Cape Town, Western Cape, 7945 Country: South Africa Mobile: +27 823729869 Email: [email protected] Web: thirdworldbunfight.co.za Facebook: @Third-World-Bunfight
Production information Artform: Theatre & Drama Title of piece: Orfeus (international) Artform: Theatre & Drama Age suitability: 13+ Use of text: Medium Use of music: Recorded & Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Producer: Barbara Mathers Writer, Director, Designer: Brett Bailey
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium to Large scale from 400 to 800 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor & Outdoor Number of people on tour: Twelve Number of performers on stage: Ten Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
69 Orfeus (international)
Third World Bunfight South Africa Theatre & Drama Pitching TWB Performing Company is a South African theatre Friday 26 June 2020 performance company, established in 1996, directed 14:30 by Brett Bailey and managed by Barbara Mathers, Albert Wessels Auditorium which has maintained its position at the cutting edge of South African performance throughout its history. Third World Bunfight (TWB) Performing Companyare The company is committed to making provocative, seeking hosting partners for an unusual trans-global uniquely African theatre works of high quality which theatrical project initiated by South African challenge stereotypes of Africa. TWB has trained and theatre-maker, Brett Bailey. Over the course of two worked with several hundred performers in the years, Brett will take up residency for a couple of Western and Eastern Cape Provinces, in Gauteng, as months in a number of cities around the world – each well as in Zimbabwe, Uganda and throughout Europe. chosen for its cultural uniqueness. He will collaborate Specialists have been brought from Holland, with local performers, musicians and creatives in each Belgium, Cote d’Ivoire, the USA and Zimbabwe to city to make one in a series of distinct versions of his work with these performers. acclaimed adaptation of the classical myth, Orfeus. Orfeus tells the tale of the first poet-musician, who Delegates Notes: journeys into the underworld to retrieve his wife after she is killed by a snake on the night of their marriage. In the underworld ruled over by a ruthless Hades, he encounters souls trapped in eternal torment. Each region will have its own concept of who these characters represent. Brett will work with the local creative teams to explore the links and resonances that the story has with the mythology, history and current issues of the region; and to shape it into a production in the theatrical and musical languages of the host city, and rooted within the particular cultural context.
70 Third World Bunfight
Contact information
Contact: Barbara Mathers Position: Managing Director Address: Third World Bunfight, 139 Main Road, Cape Town, Western Cape, 7945 Country: South Africa Mobile: +27 823729869 Web: thirdworldbunfight.co.za Facebook: @Third-World-Bunfight
Production information
Title of piece: Samson Age suitability: 13+ Use of text: Medium Use of music: Recorded & Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Producer: Barbara Mathers Writer, Director, Designer: Brett Bailey Composer and Musical Director: Shane Cooper Choreographer and performer: Elvis Sibeko
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium to Large scale from 400 to 800 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor & Outdoor Number of people on tour: Twelve Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
71 Samson
Third World Bunfight South Africa Theatre & Drama Pitching Specialists have been brought from Holland, Belgium, Friday 26 June 2020 Cote d’Ivoire, the USA and Zimbabwe to work with 14:30 these performers. Albert Wessels Auditorium
Samson, a poetic interpretation of the well-known Delegates Notes: Old Testament hero myth, brings the tale crashing into the 21st century, and situates it within a context of colonialism, migration, xenophobia, and oppressive capitalist policies. It draws on Brett’s fascination with shamanism, ritual, the repressed and the non-rational. A lyrical, sharp-edged, apocalyptic music-theatre piece, interpreted on a rich visual canvas, with powerful African choreography, soaring vocals, rap and opera, suspended within a haunting live electronic soundscape.
Third World Bunfight (TWB) Performing Company is a South African theatre/performance company, established in 1996, directed by Brett Bailey and managed by Barbara Mathers, which has maintained its position at the cutting edge of South African performance throughout its history. The company is committed to making provocative, uniquely African theatre works of high quality which challenge stereotypes of Africa. TWB has trained and worked with several hundred performers in the Western and Eastern Cape Provinces, in Gauteng, as well as in Zimbabwe, Uganda and throughout Europe.
72 Cie Kaddu
Contact information
Contact: Abdoulaye Diallo Position: Choregrapher Address: Yoff Tonghor n356, Yoff Tonghor n356, Dakar. Country: Sénégal Mobile: +00221772716635 Email: [email protected] Instagram: @abdallahh_officiel Facebook: @bboyabdallah Production information
Title of piece: Water Artform: Multi-disciplinary Age suitability: All ages Use of text: No Text Use of music: Recorded Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes, English & French Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Production: Jude Artistic director: Gacirah Diagne Director/writer/Performer: Kenneth Uphopho Technical Manager: Dotun Osa Stage Manager: Tobi Ogundipe
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor & Outdoor Number of people on tour: Two Number of performers on stage: One Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
73 Water
Cie Kaddu Sénégal Multi-disciplinary Speed Dating Saturday 27 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 12:00 Dutch Embassy VIP Area
“Water is a performance that talks about the importance of water. Some people do not realise how water is difficult to get in some places, and often polluted in other places, and if we dont wake up we will have problem to get water”.
Cie kaddu was created in 2011. Since then the company has done a lot of shows and workshops in Sénégal. Currently company member Abdoulaye Diallo aka abdallah is touring with Pollution (including Woordfees 2020) and will showcase water at the Vrystaat Arts Festival in 2020.
74 IMA
Contact information
Contact: Johann Smith Position: Writer-Director Address: PO Box 17373. Rooihuiskraal, Gauteng, 0154 Country: South Africa Mobile: +27 833832830 Email: [email protected]
Production information
Title of piece: On Mars Artform: Theatre & Drama Age suitability: 13+ Use of text: Dense Use of music: None Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes, English Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Creator and Producer: Johann Smith Actor: Pulane Sekepe Actor: Jacques Adriaanse Actor: Ilke König Technical Manager: Francois Smith
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Five Number of performers on stage: Four Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
75 On Mars
IMA South Africa Theatre & Drama Speed Dating Their purpose is to create art and "do something Saturday 27 June 2020 different". The interactive nature of On Mars is one of 12:00 those project. Dutch Embassy VIP Area
It is the year 2025 and an international conglomerate of Delegates Notes: organisations finally manage to send a group of brave scientists to Mars. For the first time since Apollo 11, space travel’s status returns to its former glory, astronauts are more popular than film stars and the word “colonialization” has a positive meaning. But as Science and Entertainment become indistinguishable and death becomes more sensational than life, some serious questions arise. Can any form of colonialization be good? Are there any limits to entertainment? And should Gordon be killed for eating the last Tabasco sauce? On Mars is an entertaining, highly surprising and “really cool” stage production that will keep the audience entertained. However, it also asks some serious questions about our relationship with toxic terminology, entertainment and popular science. These are important questions because, who knows, someone might just die. The company is a collection of professional artists who meet approximately once every two years to participate in a passion project. Their first priority is not to make, because they are involved in other film and theatre projects.
76 Leanetse Seekoe
Contact information
Contact: Leanetse Seekoe Position: Producer Address: 07 larkspur place, vincent heights, East London, Eastern Cape, 5247 Country: South Africa Mobile: +27 799256389 Email: [email protected]
Production information
Title of piece: Ruth Artform: Theatre & Drama Age suitability: 16+ Use of text: Medium Use of music: Recorded Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No Key personnel
Writer: Leanetse Seekoe
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Three Number of performers on stage: Two Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: No
77 Ruth
Leanetse Seekoe South Africa Theatre & Drama Speed Dating 27 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 12:00 Dutch Embassy VIP Area
Ruth is a heightened-text performance told through contemporary movement by two women who portray a mother and a daughter. The character of the mother in the play tells a story of trying to let go of her daughter, but also having the fear of her safety especially with her relationships with men.
Leanetse Seekoe is a writer, actress, dancer, language activist and also a teacher. Leanetse graduated with an Honours in Drama from the University of Cape Town, a PGCE from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Master’s in English and Comparative Literature from the University of Forth Hare. While Leanetse’s film credits include the SABC Production, Crux (2004), as well as This Life (2009), in 2015 she attended the Theatre Gay Festival in Dublin where she operated the light and sound for a production performed by Marnitz Van Deventer. In 2017, Leanetse debuted a play she had written titled 4 cups 1 bsp at Market Theatre Laboratory, Plat4orm Theatre as well as Theatre Arts Admin Collective. In 2018 she showcased the play at the Pan-African Creative Exchange, as well as Kuwamba Women’s Festival.
78 My Soul Speaks Collective
Contact information
Contact: Tasleem Firdausee Position: Playwright/Creative Director Address: 1224 Jefferson Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI, 49006 Country: United States of America Mobile: +1 773 599 9213 Email: [email protected] Web: tasleemjamila.com Twitter: @tasleemjamila Instagram: @tasleemjamila Facebook: @tasleem.jamila.1 Production information
Title of piece: Portals Open Artform: Theatre & Drama Age suitability: All ages Use of text: Medium Use of music: Recorded & Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes, English Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: Yes
Key personnel
Lead Actor & Playwright: Tasleem Jamila
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor & Outdoor Number of people on tour: Four Number of performers on stage: Four Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
79 Portals Open
My Soul Speaks Collective United States of America Theatre & Drama Speed Dating Saturday 27 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 10:30 Dutch Embassy VIP Area
Portals Open (Stage Play), written by Tasleem Jamila, uses Hip-Hop, spoken word, sacred movement, technology, and sound therapy to explore her family history and connect back to her African roots. Yasmeen always knew her chaotic family had many unhealed generational traumas that were not being addressed. She lives with her grandmother on the south side of Chicago who always speaks of their ancestors. Her connection to higher dimensions leads her to tap into and remember everything her grandma Lena taught her after she passed away. She is a reminder to her mother as they struggle, fight, heal and journey together to their rich culture, history, and spiritual path. My Soul Speaks Collective has been in existence for over 7 years. It is a group of creatives: actors, singers, directors, designers, writers who produce and grate various projects and productions. The people may change depending on the project.
80 Riverside Productions
Contact information
Contact: Ekene Som Mekwunye Position: CEO Address: 238A Muri Okunola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, 00234 Country: Nigeria Mobile: +08032013537 Email: [email protected] Web: riversideproductions.net Twitter: @ekenem Instagram: @ekenemekwunye Facebook: @emekwunye Production information
Title of piece: Live and Die in Africa Artform: Multi-disciplinary Age suitability: All ages Use of text: No Text Use of music: Recorded & Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes, English Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No
Key personnel
Director: Ekene Som Mekwunye Producer: Muti Mekwunye Performer: Chisom Adanna Performer: William Ifeanyi Moore Performer: Awele Mekwunye
Touring information
Scale of show: Large scale up to 800 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor & Outdoor Number of people on tour: Four Number of performers on stage: Four Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
81 Live and Die in Africa
Riverside Productions Nigeria Multi-disciplinary Speed Dating Saturday 27 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 10:30 Dutch Embassy 2020
“It's a musical drama with a fusion of theater, music, dance and spoken word. It’s a new genre we are experimenting with, but very confident about the emotions and power it conveys”. Riverside Productions is a company that has been involved in music and TV production for many years. They produced content in the continent for TV and music and recently went into film production. They have had their films shown in cinemas, and have won a couple of awards
82 Women in the Arts
Contact information
Contact: Tope Sanni Position: Project Manager Address: 4 Adesoye Street Mende Maryland Ikeja ,Lagos, 10001 Country: Nigeria Mobile: +2348096360700 Email: [email protected] Twitter: @winthearts Instagram: @winthearts Facebook: @winthearts
Production information
Title of piece: Bridezilla Artform: Theatre & Drama Age suitability: 13+ Use of text: Medium Use of music: Recorded & Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: No Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No
Key personnel
Producer: Brenda Fashugba Production Manager: Tope Sanni Director: Kenneth Uphopho Technical Manager: Dotun Osa Actor/Performer: Bunmi Sogade Actor/Performer: Deola Shinaba Actor/Performer: Odera Orji
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor & Outdoor Number of people on tour: Six Number of performers on stage: Three Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
83 Bridezilla
Women In the Arts Nigeria Multi-disciplinary Speed Dating 27 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 12:00 Dutch Embassy VIP Area
Bridezilla looks at different ethnic groups’ experiences in Nigeria adapted for the stage. In this very experimental and interactive play, we examine Patriarchy; the male supremacy system in which the power is in the hands of men through the eyes of an intending bride. The Bridezilla experience with Bunmi Sogade introduces and immerses the audience in the culture of African brides confronting the many pressures and expectations from society, self, institutions and family. She takes the audience on this emotional rollercoaster. Women in the Arts is a collective of like minded women in the creative industry spanning fashion, theatre, literature, music and dance. The group had its first meeting in March 2015 and has gone on to increase its membership to over 250 women in Lagos, Nigeria. The WIA highlights core positive outcomes and norms for Women in the Creative industry through conversation, networking and performance. It runs a festival as part of the showcase for Lagos Fringe Festival every year.
84 Xolisa Kapakati
Contact information
Contact: Xolisa Kapakati Position: Artists/Creator Address: 013 Qolweni, EThembeni, King Williams Town , Eastern Cape , 5600 Country: South Africa Mobile: +27 799356161 Email: [email protected]
Production information
Title of piece: Xhanti Artform: Theatre & Drama Age suitability: 18+ Use of text: Dense Use of music: Live Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes, Xhosa Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No
Key personnel
Artist-creator: Xolisa Kapakati Production Manager: Elethu Ngoqo Artists
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Two Number of performers on stage: Two Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
85 Xhanti Xolisa Kapakati South Africa Theatre & Drama Speed Dating Saturday 27 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 10:30 Dutch Embassy VIP Area
Xhanti is an attempt at rebirth or reintroduction from innermost personal to outer communal spaces using interdisciplinary narratives. It is a convergence of abstract narratives rendered through sacred ritualistic spaces and their functions as lateral, spiritual, ideological and metaphysical spaces for worship and gateways to other realms of being. The piece intends to directly interogate vulnerable terrains of masculinity through rites of passage and their functions. Xhosa ideas of cultural memory are explored as nonlinear contours for sound and song, dance and movement, poetry and language.
86 Jane Mpholo
Contact information
Contact: Jane Mpholo Position: Project Manager Address: 1462/13, Blackthorn Street, Bloemfontein, Free State Province, 9323 Country: South Africa Mobile: +27 718452270 Email: [email protected]
Production information
Title of piece: The Island Artform: Theatre & Drama Age suitability: 16+ Use of text: Dense Use of music: Recorded Requires a clear understanding of English or another language: Yes, English Available with BSL interpretation, audio description or captioning: No
Key personnel
Director and Executive Producer: Dr Jerry Mofokeng Wa Makhetha Producer: Prof Nico Luwes Project Manager and actor: Jane Mpholo Stage Manager: Jani Marais Assistant Director: Charl Henning Acting and voice coach: Rondo Mpiti
Touring information
Scale of show: Medium scale up to 400 seats Appropriate setting: Indoor Number of people on tour: Six Number of performers on stage: Two Availability for touring: From July 2020 onward Suitable for rural touring: Yes Outreach and educational work: Yes
87 The Island
Dr Jerry Mofokeng Wa Makhetha South Africa Theatre & Drama Speed Dating Saturday 27 June 2020 Delegates Notes: 10:30 Dutch Embassy VIP Area
A two hander originally performed by two African males but now comes with a twist, with two females (one African and one Afrikaner). Inspired by a true story, the show takes place in a prison cell at Roben island and sees the journeys of the two prisoners. Although written in the 70s, it's themes are still relevant in this modern world. The plot thickens when the two prepare for a performance of the legendary Antigone and it's through this that their frustrations with themselves and each other are exposed. A story about oppression, hope, betrayal and triumph. The project manager Jane Mpholo graduated in 2012 (BA Drama and Theatre Arts) and has a passion to use art for social change and justice. She has recently been recognised by the Mail and Guardian as one of the top 100 women changing South Africa through art, film and media. In 2017 she was honored by the Black Women Aris organisation as the most Influential woman of the year. She has since the year of 2012 been active in the theatrical arts industry and continues to be a game changer
89 More to follow in April...