Gregory Maqoma and Vuyani Dance Theatre

i 13th JOMba! contemporary Dance Experience 31 august – 11 September 2011

VEnuES The Festival sincerely acknowledges the support of funders and partners Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre (Tel: 031 – 260 2296) University of KwaZulu-Natal Principal Funder Howard College Campus Tickets: R45 (Students/Scholars/Pensioners: R30) Book at Computicket (or at venue one hour before) Tel: 083 915 8000

JOMba! ciTY 2 September @ 7pm Outside the Durban City Hall (Durban inner city cultural precinct) Tickets: R50 available at the gates only

YOuTh FringE - Entrance Free! Dorothy Nyembe Hall Cato Manor/Umkhumbane Tel: 082 875 6065

WOrKShOP VEnuE Dance Studio (Movement Room 2) University of KwaZulu-Natal Howard College Campus

FOr FurThEr inFOrMaTiOn cOnTacT: Centre for Creative Arts University of KwaZulu-Natal Tel: 031 – 260 2506/1816 E-mail: [email protected] www.cca.ukzn.ac.za

1 Introduction

he University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts and its celebrated annual contemporary often seen as an improvisation and ‘battle’ dance form, to the theatre stage. Carefully constructed solo dance platform, JOMBA!, invites you to explore this year’s 11 day festival spanning two weeks. works ask the audience to revel at two dancers whose bodies ooze strength, power and control. This year’s festival has dance off erings which encompass the very best of local and international It is also our great privilege to welcome fellow African dance maker Faustin Linyekula from the dancers and dance companies. Democratic Republic of the Congo. Faustin’s work takes a critical look at post-independence in Africa TNurturing local dance sees this year’s JOMBA! New Works programme off ering grants to both Mlu and embraces the anarchy and chaos of making art in a time of struggle and trauma. Zondi and S’fi so Magesh Ngcobo. Further afi eld, Johannesburg’s Gregory Maqoma brings his deeply A further highlight of this 2011, is our JOMBA! City – a site-specifi c dance and art-making encounter celebrated “Beautiful Me”; a dance work that has traveled the globe to critical acclaim. A fi rst forJOMBA! with the inner city of Durban. Curated by David Gouldie, this is sure to be the street party event of the this year, is its adventurous “Women’s Solo Project” which has gathered together four prominent local year! and international women choreographers who have created solo works. Hélène Cathala joins us from The festival also comes with the usual FRINGE and YOUTH FRINGE off ering valuable open platforms France, Durban’s Desiré Davids has made a short dance fi lm, Lliane Loots to new dance makers – young and old alike. These platforms always prove enlightening in fi nding out has created a politically charged work on FLATFOOT dancer TeeKay where new talent might emerge. Quvane, and Gauteng-based Dada Masilo comes to JOMBA! for the Look out for a series of free dance workshops with the festival’s participating dancers and fi rst time off ering her controversial and celebrated solo, “The Bitter choreographers but please note that these activities require you to book in advance. End of Rosemary”. We hope to see you during this exciting 11 days of performances, screenings and workshops. JOMBA! prides itself on its facilitation of dance collaborations within Africa, and this year is no exception. Durban’s much loved FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY is collaborating with Nigeria’s llianE lOOTS IJODEE DANCE COMPANY. Lagos-based choreographer Artistic Director: JOMBA! Adedayo Liadi will be creating a new work on FLATFOOT. With the Yoruba title, “Aye Asan” PETEr rOrViK meaning ‘vanity’, this work will also feature Director: Centre for Creative Arts Ijodee’s Frank Konwea alongside the fi ve resident dancers of FLATFOOT. On the international front, JOMBA! is delighted to host two of the world’s most prestigious B-Boyz – Junior and Stylistik. Hailing from France, these two world champion break- dancers have turned the contemporary dance world on its head, by shifting what is

2 3 PrOgraMME PrOgraMME (subject to change) (subject to change)

WEDnESDaY 31 august – 19h30 (Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre) TuESDaY 6 September – 19h30 (Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre) Welcome: Lliane Loots “more ...more …more …future” - choreography by Faustin Linyekula [Democratic Republic of Congo] “Entre-Deux” (In Between) – choreographed and danced by Abdou N’Gom aka Sylistik [France] inTErVal WEDnESDaY 7 September – 19h30 (Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre) “Buanattitude” – choreographed and danced by Junior (Wanted Posse) [France] “more ...more …more …future” - choreography by Faustin Linyekula [Democratic Republic of Congo] • JOMBA! Talks Dance: post-show discussion with choreographer hosted by Adrienne Sichel ThurSDaY 1 September – 19h30 (Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre) “Entre-Deux” (In Between) – choreographed and danced by Abdou N’Gom aka Sylistik [France] ThurSDaY 8 September – 19h30 (Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre) inTErVal 1. “Similar Pathways” – choreography by S’fi so Magesh Ngcobo (JOMBA! New Works Grant) “Buanattitude” – choreographed and danced by Junior (Wanted Posse) [France] 2. “Devolva” – choreography by Mlu Zondi (JOMBA! New Works Grant) • JOMBA! Talks Dance: post show discussion with choreographers/dancers hosted by Adrienne Sichel inTErVal 3. “Aye Asan” (vanity) – choreography by Adedayo Liadi [Nigeria] featuring FLATFOOT DANCE FriDaY 2 September – 19h00 (outside city hall – Durban inner city cultural Precinct) COMPANY [South Africa] JOMBA! City (see details on page 8)

FriDaY 9 September – 19h30 (Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre) SaTurDaY 3 September – 19h30 (Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre) “WOMEN’S SOLO PROJECT” Due to the explicit nature of some of the works this programme carries an over 16 age restriction 1. “Similar Pathways” – choreography by S’fi so Magesh Ngcobo (JOMBA! New Works Grant) 1. “La jeune fi lle que la rivière n’a pas gardée” (The Young Woman The River Didn’t Keep) – 2. “Devolva” – choreography by Mlu Zondi (JOMBA! New Works Grant) choreography by Hélène Cathala [France] inTErVal 2. “Skin” – choreography by Lliane Loots [South Africa] 3. “Aye Asan” (vanity) – choreography by Adedayo Liadi [Nigeria] featuring FLATFOOT DANCE inTErVal COMPANY [South Africa] 3. “WHO IS THIS?...Beneath My Skin – Layer 2” – choreography by Desiré Davids [South Africa] • JOMBA! Talks Dance: post-show discussion with choreographers hosted by Adrienne Sichel 4. “The Bitter End of Rosemary” – choreography by Dada Masilo [South Africa] • JOMBA! Talks Dance: post-show discussion with choreographers hosted by Adrienne Sichel SaTurDaY 10 September – 14h00 (Dorothy nyembe hall – cato Manor/umkhumbane) JOMBA! YOUTH FRINGE (see details on page 19) SunDaY 4 September – 19h30 (Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre) “WOMEN’S SOLO PROJECT” Due to the explicit nature of some of the works this programme carries an over 16 age restriction SaTurDaY 10 September – 19h30 (Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre) 1. “La jeune fi lle que la rivière n’a pas gardée” (The Young Woman The River Didn’t Keep) – choreography by Hélène Cathala [France] “Beautiful Me” – choreography by Gregory Maqoma [South Africa] with artistic contributions from 2. “Skin” – choreography by Lliane Loots [South Africa] Akram Khan [India/United Kingdom], Faustin Linyekula [DRC] and Vincent Mantsoe [South Africa] inTErVal • JOMBA! Talks Dance: post show discussion with choreographer hosted by Adrienne Sichel 3. “WHO IS THIS?...Beneath My Skin – Layer 2” – choreography by Desiré Davids [South Africa] 4. “The Bitter End of Rosemary” – choreography by Dada Masilo [South Africa] SunDaY 11 September – 19h30 (Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre) • Presentation of the Eric Shabalala DancE chaMPiOn aWarD MOnDaY 5 September – 19h30 (Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre) “Beautiful Me” – choreography by Gregory Maqoma [South Africa] with artistic contributions from JOMBA! FRINGE (see details on page 18) Akram Khan [India/United Kingdom], Faustin Linyekula [DRC] and Vincent Mantsoe [South Africa]

4 5 abdou n’Gom (aka) Stylistik’s B-Boy Junior’s “Entre Deux” (In between) “Buanattitude” choreography: Clarisse Veaux and Abdou N’gom choreography: Junior Bosila Banya Performer: Abdou N’gom artistic direction: Olivier Lefrancois and Junior Bosila Banya lighting artists: Christophe Mangilli and Dorothée Tournour Text: Olivier Lefrancois and Junior Bosila Banya lighting control: Lise Poyol Music: Manuel Wandji Visual artist: Claire Rolland light creation: Patrick Clitus Music arrangements: Damien Traversaz On his arms, on his elbows, in a push-up position without touching the ground with his feet, in a “ninety- Created in 2010 by Clarisse Veaux and Abdou N’gom from compagnie Stylistik, the solo Entre deux nine” position with strength and ease, B-Boy Junior (also known as Buana) is an outlandish break-dancer. explores, through urban street dance, how you can build identity when you belong to various cultures. Yet, even if he is considered one of the ten best breakers in the world, even if he has known for a long This choreographic work deals with being “in-between two cultures” – often perceived as a foreigner time where he is heading, it is vital for him today to know where he comes from. “My diff erence; I have by both sides. This dance work touches anybody who has felt in between two ages, two groups or two accepted it for better and for worse. The worst part is when people want me to believe that I should be systems. It calls for tolerance and acceptance of one’s diff erences, whether it be in our appearance or like everyone else.” background. It is in a way the personal experience of the performer and choreographer, Abdou N’gom, for whom “it is not necessary to come from another country to feel rejected. The unknown scares, Choreographed and performed by B-Boy Junior, Buanattitude is his fi rst creation which looks at his roots diff erences disturb. So on which feet shall we dance?” in Zaire and its history, and accesses the artistic collaboration of Olivier Le François. This complex solo is a journey which confronts our conceptions of a fantasised Africa and its multiple realities, faced during cOMPagniE STYliSTiK was founded in 2006 in Lyon, France, by two hip hop dancers, Clarisse Veaux Junior’s artistic residency in Kinshasa. Junior joined the Wanted Posse crew in 2001, with whom he and Abdou N’gom. The company concentrates on urban dance and uses the hip hop language combined performed, toured the world and won several titles, including the Break-dance Championship of France, with other forms of art to question, explore and answer topical issues. and the World Championship (Battle of the Year). He has only recently embarked on his solo career.

6 7 JomBa! city JOMba! WOMEn’S SOlO PrOJEcT hélène cathala (France) Outside Durban city hall – Durban inner city cultural Precinct “La jeune ﬁ lle que la rivière n’a pas “My Body For The Earth” gardée” (The Young Woman The River Didn’t Keep) ~ Curated by David Gouldie ~

Featuring the cultural collaboration of dancers, choreographers, fi ne artists, musicians, DJs, mcees, choreography: Hélène Cathala graph artists, singers, fi lmmakers, and spoken word artists … JOMBA! City is Durban’s biggest street Dancer: Nina Santes party event. Claiming back the inner city and asking audiences to enter into the street party of their Video and lighting: Thomas Godefroy and Marc Baylet dreams, curator David Gouldie - alongside the JOMBA! team - has Music: Arnaud Bertrand shaped an event around the theme “My Body For The Earth” - Producer: Cie Hors Commerce that will entertain, astound and delight! Artists come together co-producers: Scène Nationale de Cavaillon in an edgy, unique vision that promises audiences a night of site-specifi c interactive performance they will never Funding acknowledgments: forget. Direction Régionale des Aff aires Culturelles du Languedoc Roussillon (French Ministry of Culture) Région Languedoc-Roussillon Special guests include France’s B-Boyz JuniOr and Département de l’Hérault STYliSTiK working alongside Durban’s own Hip-Hop Ville de Montpellier organisation LIFE CHECK – Durban’s break-dance will never be the same! “Nina Santes is a virtuoso dancer who combines a strong, vibrant technique with a unique sense of interpretation, with the face of a Madonna, a childlike presence and unfailing determination. Flux of sounds and images compose The River. Tickets are r50 and can only be purchased at Images and sounds like so many riddles, like so many mirrors shaped by the gate on the night. the body, questioning the present moment.

gates open from 6.30pm – street party Images entwined with sounds, powerful to the point of submersion begins at 7pm. at times, but revealing here a body in search of construction, a dance in search of its own birth, a writing in progress.

The performing space, shaped by infrared sensors, emerges little by little as the matrix of the dance itself. The dancer’s movements are here a portrait in motion, there a wild fugue: body language as a joyful dance defying the freeze frame, stretching the limits of the actor’s art – sidestepping, fl oating, drifting …. A present-day Ophelia”.

hÉlÈnE caThala danced with Dominique Bagouet and Trisha Brown from 1989 to 1992. In 1993 she co-founded La Camionetta dance company with Fabrice Ramalingom. She then initiated Changement de Propriétaire, an artists’ collective working around research and experimentation in Montpellier. In 2006, she created her own company, Hors Commerce, questioning the worlds of dance, theater, literature, developing both teaching opportunities and creations. 8 9 JOMba! WOMEn’S SOlO PrOJEcT JOMba! WOMEn’S SOlO PrOJEcT Lliane Loots (Durban, South africa) Desiré Davids (Durban, South africa) “Skin” “Who is This?...beneath My Skin choreography: Lliane Loots – Layer 2” Danced and realised by: Thobeka “TeeKay” Quvane (Flatfoot Dance Company) Film/Video installations: Karen Logan (with thanks also to Rika Sitas) choreographed and performed by Desiré Davids Soundscape composition: Liam Magner (with thanks to Igor Stravinsky) Filming and Editing: Pascale Beroujon lighting Design: Wesley Maherry Production Manager: Clare Craighead “After the unraveling of the fi rst layer in WHO IS THIS...Beneath My SKIN? premiered at JOMBA! 2010, I Photographer: Seppe Ruberti decided to continue the unraveling process, extending my search to another level, thus, WHO IS THIS?... Beneath My Skin - Layer 2. The fi lm is this second layer. The full work is done predominantly as a solo with “From the Swazi reed dances, where hundreds of young female virgins, almost naked, pay cultural extended video/fi lm work including the videographer on stage. It is an investigation into my heritage and to homage to a King, to a young woman stripped, almost naked, in a prison cell (could be anywhere post- what degree it has defi ned and infl uenced me as a person. Where do I fi nd myself as a coloured woman in colonial?), to the splitting open of the almost naked bodies of sisters who do not fi t in, we are left asking South Africa today? I am of mixed race; Black and White. I do not know how much of each. All I know is that what clothes we should – as women – begin to choose to cover our skin?” I am me and that is what I would like you to see. When you look at me, yes... look at my Appearance, see my History, see my Country, my Race, llianE lOOTS is the artistic director of Durban’s FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY, a contemporary ask about my Culture, my Religious beliefs and Marital status, company that has existed professionally since 2003. She has received numerous choreographic even question why I do not have children at this age, but do awards and grants that have seen her and FLATFOOT travel all over Africa and Europe. not judge and package me by these, for these are but a Her strong life-time focus on dance development and training for dancers has fraction of what makes me ME.” allowed FLATFOOT to emerge as one of South Africa’s leading companies. FLATFOOT acknowledges the fi nancial DESirÉ DaViDS was born in the Western Cape, and graduated support of the National Arts Council from the University of Cape Town Ballet School. She toured to of South Africa and HIVOS. Austria and Italy with the UCT Ballet Company before moving to Durban in 1992 to join Napac Dance Company which restructured itself in 1994 to become the Playhouse Dance Company. In 1998 she was a principal dancer with the State Theatre Dance Company. Desiré co-founded (in 1997) the company “The Floating Outfi t Project” (a Dance Theatre Collaborative) with Boyzie Cekwana. The collaborative, although based in Durban, is structured to be a loose, rootless entity able to move and work anywhere in the world. Davids has been a regular guest at Marie Brolin-Tani’s MBT Dansteater in Denmark and has worked as a guest performer with the Skånes Dansteater in Sweden. Most of her last three years has been spent in France touring the work of Pascal Montrouge and working on the current project of Vincent Mantsoe, “SAN”. 10 11 JOMba! WOMEn’S SOlO PrOJEcT Faustin Linyekula (Democratic republic of congo) Dada masilo (Johannesburg, South africa) “more … more … more … future”

artistic direction: Faustin Linyekula “The bitter End Of Rosemary” Musical direction: Flamme Kapaya Musicians: Flamme Kapaya, Patou “Tempête” Kayembe, Le Coq, Pasnas, Rémi Bassinta Night Ness Dancers: Dinozord, Papy Ebotani, Faustin Linyekula choreographed and danced by Dada Masilo Texts: Antoine Vumilia Muhindo Music: Philip Miller costume design: Xuly Bët (Paris) lighting: Suzette le Sueur Management: Virginie Dupray, assisted by Jean-Louis Mwandika and Eddy Mbalanga. costume: Ann Bailes. “For several years, ndombolo, the Congolese pop music, has been haunting my dance pieces. Ndombolo is “When invited to create a solo work for the festival Anticodes11 in Brest, France, I used the opportunity the bastard daughter of rumba, traditional rhythms, church fanfares and Sex Machine funk. Pimped by local to explore literature’s tragic heroines and their relationship with fl owers. This work was created on brewers, ndombolo delivers energy! City concerts invite you at 9pm; don’t come before midnight but be stage at The Dance Factory, without the aid of a mirror. Rosemary embodies great female fi gures of the prepared to stay until dawn. So, come and listen to heavy, overload sound, songs you know by heart.People tragedies, Shakespeare’s Ophelia in particular - in love with Hamlet and rejected, mad with grief, she drink, dance and fl irt. Musicians come on stage and disappear to come back again, singing their own praises. drowns in a stream. It is a work about women’s madness as much as it is about the body used to express It’s about power, beautiful women, designer clothes and luxury cars. So why not use the fantastic energy of itself when this madness in the mind takes over. The body is both anchored and airborne, both struggles guitars and voices to show diffi culties, dead ends, mistakes and the poor legacy of our fathers? The energy of and pleads, and then surrenders – blood always fl ows in the bitter end.’’ 70s and 80s punk movements in Europe and America comes to my mind – How young people took music to destroy everything around, in a self-claimed no-future society. If it’s impossible for us to send to hell a future DaDa MaSilO trained at The Dance Factory and attended the that we never had, if it’s diffi cult to go on ruining our pile of ruins, let’s try to dream, the feet fi rmly kept on the National School of the Arts before spending a year at Jazzart ground, and just to imagine more future…” in Cape Town. She received the 2005 Gauteng MEC Award for Most Promising Female Dancer in a Contemporary Style. On FauSTin linYEKula lives and works in Kisangani, North-East of the Democratic Republic of Congo, former a scholarship, she studied for two years at the renowned Zaire, former Belgian Congo, former independent state of Congo. Back in Kinshasa in June 2001, he developed

Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (PARTS) in a company dedicated to dance and visual theatre, providing training PHOTO: AGATHE POUPENEY Brussels. Since returning late 2006, she has taught for Dance programmes, as well as supporting research and creation: the Factory Youth, created and performed her numerous works Studios Kabako. Memory, forgetting, and the suppression of and in 2008 received the prestigious Standard Bank Young Artist memory, Faustin addresses the legacy of decades of Award for Dance. war in the DRC, terror, fear and the collapse of the economy for himself, his family and his friends. In December 2007, he received the Principal Award of the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development. Production: Studios Kabako / Virginie Dupray. Coproduction: KVS Theater/Brussels, KunstenFestivaldesarts / Brussels, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Maison des Arts de Créteil. With the support of Theaterformen / Hanover, Tanz im August/Internationales Tanzfest Berlin and the DRAC Ile-de-France / French Ministry of Culture and Communication.

12 13 JOMba! nEW WOrKS adedayo Liadi (Lagos, nigeria) with FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY (Durban, South Africa) S’ﬁ so magesh ngcobo “Aye Asan” (vanity) “Similar Pathways”

choreography: Adedayo M. Liadi (Ijodee Dance Company) choreography: S’fi so Magesh Ngcobo Dancers: Jabu Siphika, Thobeka “TeeKay” Quvane, Sifi so Khumalo, S’fi so Magesh Ngcobo, Mlondolozi Dancers: Sifi so Khumalo and S’fi so Magesh Zondi (all Flatfoot Dance Company) and Frank Konwea (Ijodee Dance Company) Ngcobo Musicians: Mandla Matsha and Friends Sign language/coding: Andiswa Gebashe “In Nigeria, Yoruba mythology says ‘vanity upon vanity, all is vanity and is just vanity’. For me this also Poetry and Singing: Mfundi Ndwalane means we came to the world empty-handed and we all will surely go back empty-handed no matter (poem written by Gugu Dlamini) how poor or how wealthy we become. The six feet under and the casket is only for one human being, Design: Rogers Ganesan and their past characters in heart, will follow them till eternity. Coming to light is a chance for all human beings to show the kind of person they are – good or bad. This dance work is about the good, the bad “We all face joy, sadness, sorrow, pain and the rising and falling and the ugly in all of us – and the choices we make along the way”. that seems to make up part of our journey. If we can only hold onto this, we would see the real meaning of ubuntu in each other, aDEDaYO liaDi is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, acrobat and, while we might not feel like we are going in the same and drummer of international standing. He is a graduate of direction, our life paths land up being similar”. the International Center for Dance & Choreography, Ecole Des Sable, (JANT-BI) of Senegal and has travelled to over S’FiSO MagESh ngcObO began his dancing career in 2001 60 countries all over the world spreading the vision of with FLATFOOT’s Training Company, while studying towards his African contemporary dance style and philosophy. his BA degree at the then University of Natal (Durban). In 2003, He has won numerous international awards for his when FLATFOOT turned professional, S’fi so was one of choreography, is the artistic director of Ijodee Dance the founding company members. In 2004 he joined the Company and runs and administers the Ijodee Dance cast of African Footprint and toured Europe and India Centre in Lagos. He returns to Durban to renew a six-year with the production. He returned to FLATFOOT in working relationship with Lliane Loots and Flatfoot Dance 2006 where he has worked as a dancer and dance Company. educator ever since. Magesh has also completed a graduate course in Dance in Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Durban), and now has his Honours degree in Community Development (UKZN). He also works, via his production company (Gush Magesh Productions), on corporate functions and team building.

14 15 JOMba! nEW WOrKS Gregory maqoma and Vuyani Dance Theatre mlu Zondi (Johannesburg, South africa) “Devolva” “beautiful Me” choreography: Mlu Zondi choreographed and danced by: Gregory Maqoma Dancers: Sanele Mzinyane and Mlu Zondi artistic contributors: Akram Khan, Faustin Linekula and Vincent Mantsoe Director: Gerard Bester Devolva is a performance art work fi rst created in Los Angeles, California during Mlu Zondi’s residency at radio Text: Wole Soyinka 18th Arts Centre. It was performed at Highway’s performance space as a durational work happening at Technician: David Hlatshwayo the same time as a performance by New York artist Anya Liftig. The piece has now been reworked into a costume: Sun Goddess duet, and the US performance into a video artwork that refl ects the dancer’s psyche and memory. Music composition and Performance: Poorvi Bhana, Bongani Kunene, Given Mphago, Isaac Molelekoa. co-production: Centre National de la Danse – Pantin (Creation during a residency period) Mlu ZOnDi is a Durban-born dance and performance artist and was the 2010 Standard Bank Young The Akram Khan Charity Trust (AKCT) Artist Award winner for dance. After completing a performance diploma Vuyani Dance Theatre at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) in 2000, his career as an FNB Dance Umbrella international performer was launched when he was invited to do a residency in Switzerland, with an opportunity to perform at the In Beautiful Me Maqoma challenges the notion of dance by working with three very successful Lausanne International Dance Festival. Zondi has taken part in choreographers, Akram Khan, Faustin Linyekula and Vincent Sekwati Mantsoe. These various international residencies, some of which include South Korea choreographers have contributed some minutes of their choreographic material in in the Seoul Performing Arts Company’s Orpheus, and Spain with the movement, music and text to create Beautiful Me. Rodriguez-Amat Foundation of Contemporary Arts. Zondi has created What inspired Maqoma to work with them is curiosity about their choreographic a body of work that moves seamlessly between the stage, gallery and language, their connection to tradition and their styles, which though diff erent, public spaces, and challenges the boundaries of the dance discipline all have something profoundly human in them. Maqoma has been challenged to with his cutting edge performance art, video and multimedia create an extension of the material provided to refl ect his own choreographic installations. landscape but also to create a true refl ection of his chosen artists embodied in his body. In this project, Maqoma treats his body as a moving portrait that continues to reinterpret emotions, histories and fi nd a transitional point in tradition and dance languages. Maqoma has teamed up with four musicians of African origin. These are musicians who specialize in producing distinctive African intonations with their instruments.

grEgOrY MaQOMa, a former student of Moving Into Dance, founded Vuyani Dance Theatre (VDT) in 1999 while he was studying at the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (PARTS) in Brussels. VDT has an on-going search for a fusion of African contemporary urban styles, music and culture with those produced by contemporary European counterparts.

16 17 The JOMBA! FRINGE The JOMBA! YOUTH FRINGE

Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre Dorothy nyembe hall (cato Manor/umkhumbane) 5 September (Monday) 10 September (Saturday) 2pm 7.30pm Entrance Free!

This open performance platform provides an opportunity for up-coming choreographers (over 16 – The Youth Fringe, fast becoming the hit of every festival for the sheer vitality and energy of the some new to choreography and some professional dancers) to present their work in a professional performances, is a showground for young dancers under 16. This year will feature works by many of environment with the support of a full technical team. This is one of the ways in which the JOMBA! Durban’s dance development programmes showing off the incredible dance training being given. festival off ers assistance in developing new young talent by off ering them the space to experiment. This year features no less than 15 groups of young dancers. A special highlight this year is the guest choreography by Adedayo Liadi and Frank Konwea (Nigeria) on young dancers from two of FLATFOOT’s Selection of participants is by a panel of experts via the scrutiny of entry forms. Preference is given to dance development project in Umlazi. NOT TO BE MISSED! choreographers who have already made at least one work in the idiom of contemporary dance.

For 2011 we are delighted to be off ering a rich and varied Directions to the Dorothy nyembe hall: From the M13/Jan Smuts highway, turn into Bidston Road programme featuring the following choreographers: in Mayville. Turn right into Bidston if traveling east, and left if traveling west. There are traffi c lights at that intersection. The Mayville Police Station is on that corner. The road curves right – follow it. Name Mandisa Roeleen Haarhoff changes to Owen. Bidston has continued to the left – don’t follow it. Owen Road then curves left – Mlondolozi Zondi follow it. Name changes to Cato Manor Road. 200m along turn right into Marche Avenue. There are Sarahleigh Castelyn signs at that intersection indicating Cato Crest Hall and Cato Crest Library. Follow that road to the top Stella Dlangalala of the hill. Hall, school and library at the top of the hill. Turn left into the complex and secure parking Zenzelisphesihle “Sparky” Xulu is behind the hall. Jabulani “Tamraat” Matiwane Vusi Makanya

18 19 DANCE AND ChOREOGRAPhiC WORKShOP SChEDULE Dance/Performance/Theatre Writing All workshops will be held in the Dance Studio on the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Howard College Campus) Residency with Adrienne Sichel

PlEaSE nOTE: These workshops are off ered free of charge to participants but booking is essential as places are limited. Call 031 – 260 2506 to book a place in one or all of the following workshops. JOMBA! 2011 is proud to be, once again, hosting veteran journalist adrienne Sichel, winner of the 2009 Alan Kirkland Soga Lifetime Achiever award presented by Mondi Shanduka Newsprint and the Saturday 3 September: 9am – 10:30am Newspaper Association of South Africa. Sichel has a reputation for being a fearless defender of artistic • Workshop with S’ﬁ so Magesh ngcobo (Durban): this workshop will take the form of a technique and press freedoms in South Africa and has a lifetime reputation of fi ghting for coverage for dance and class and will focus on building strength and fi tness for the contemporary dancer. theatre in South Africa. Her decades of arts journalism inspires and provokes!

Sunday 4 September: 10am – 11:30am Over the 11 days of the festival Sichel will mentor young writers in a process of learning how to decode, • Workshop with Dada Masilo (Johannesburg): this workshop will take the form of a technique class and will read and write about performance. The outcome of this will be the on-line JOMBA! blog and the creation explore some of the contemporary dance training that exemplifi es Dada’s working style and method. of the 3rd and 4th editions of our JOMBA! KHULUMA festival newspaper.

Sunday 4 September: 2pm – 4pm Sichel will also host and facilitate the JOMBA! TALKS DANCE forums in which dancers and choreographers • Workshop with hélène cathala (France): this is an exploratory choreographic workshop that will will be lead through a series of questions that will allow them to speak about their work – all in an allow you an insight into Hélène’s style of creating dance. It will also off er you the opportunity to attempt to raise the critical debate around dance in South Africa. Check the schedule for dates! explore the creating of your own dance languages and styles. JOMBA! KHULUMA blOg – http://jombakhuluma.blogspot.com Wednesday 7 September: 1:30pm – 3:30pm • Workshop with Faustin linyekula (Democratic Republic of Congo): this workshop off ers a very rare opportunity to work alongside Faustin and explore the intimate act of choreography.

Saturday 10 September: 9am – 11am • Workshop with adedayo liadi (Nigeria): this workshop will explore the technique and dance training styles and methods exemplifi ed by Adedayo’s work with Ijodee Dance Company.

Sunday 11 September: 10am – 12noon • Workshop with gregory Maqoma (Johannesburg): this workshop will off er a technique class in the evolving style that Gregory and Vuyani Dance Theatre has become internationally recognised for.

20 21 DANCE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS Eric Shabalala

Every year JOMBA! focuses on one specialised dance development programme that aims at an in-depth Dance Champion Award transfer of dance and performance skills that offers more than a one-off workshop. This year we are delighted to be facilitating the meeting of French B-Boyz Junior and Stylistik with the young up and coming break-dancers associated with Durban’s hip-hop organisation LIFE CHECK. Eric Mshengu Shabalala was a founder member of Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre as well as director of Shwibeka Dance. His recent untimely death has put into sharp focus the need to honour our dance The culmination of this residency will be a joint performance by the LIFE CHECK B-Boyz and B-Girlz with ‘heroes’. Junior and Stylistik at the JOMBA! City Street Party on Friday 2 September @ 7pm. Even as Eric developed as a dancer and as a choreographer in the ranks of the Phenduka training The Life Check Youth Development Initiative grew from a monthly “park jam” called Bling Free that programme and Siwela Sonke, he taught and gave back to the community whatever he learned. He started, in 2003, as a reaction by three local Hip Hop heads to the mainstream pop assimilation of Hip touched the lives of many through selfless devotion to the cause of dance and dance education. He put Hop culture that had come to dominate the nightclubs and dance floors in Durban. These heads wanted the training and education of young people above personal reward. Eric was also a tireless ambassador to create a space for real Hip Hop culture to exist, away from the clubs and bars, bringing together an for dance. He brought dance and art to a range of different contexts as he collaborated with whoever underground movement of heads committed to true self-expression through the four elements of Hip would listen: foreign embassies, national festival organizers, universities and technikons, schools in Hop: dance, music, rap and graffiti. under-serviced townships and community halls. Eric is one of the unsung heroes in a society that is still slow to recognize and honour its artists and the dedication of its art teachers. In his name this award, Today, Life Check YDI continues to embody these initial ethics. The organisation has developed into a presented at this 13th JOMBA! festival, will continue to honour selfless service to the art form in all series of projects, from mural painting to studio recording to the annual ALL ELEMENTS BATTLE, an its respects. The ERIC SHABALALA DANCE CHAMPION AWARD will be made annually – event that has become its own institution in the Durban Hip Hop scene. through the platform of the Centre for Creative Arts JOMBA! Festival – to someone who emulates the values that Eric stood for: artistic excellence, selfless service, Life Check believes that the core benefit of “self-expression” is Hip Hop culture, and therefore a culture social upliftment and innovative practice. of freedom, and its preservation and promotion as such remains the key focus of this initiative. The award presentation will be made by Jay Pather (artistic director of For more information visit www.lifecheckydi.com Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre) on the 11 September (the closing night of the festival).

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For JOMba!: artistic Director: Lliane Loots Festival Manager: Clare Craighead Production Manager: Wesley Maherry lighting: Rosemarie Schumann Sound: Megan Levy crew: Nosipho Bopela and Tina le Roux Technical Manager JOMBA! City: Jane Cross Publicity: Versfeld and Associates Festival Photographer: Val Adamson Publications Design: Artworks Communications Youth Fringe Direction and coordination: Flatfoot Dance Company

For the centre for creative arts: Dhiya Bahadur, Carole Gumede, Sakhile Gumede, Siphindile Hlongwa, Steve Jones, Noxolo Malimba, Khaya Mbonyana, Nashen Moodley, Sambulo Ntombela, Kwazi Ngubane, Gabisile Nkabinde, Magdalene Reddy, Monica Rorvik, Peter Rorvik, Andrea Voges

For the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre: Theatre Director: Jackie Cunniff e Production Manager: Sue Roberts Technical Manager: Mark Kleinert Senior administrative Oﬃ cer: Sharmla Naidoo Front of house and bar Manager: Gareth Nash

Special Thanks Drama and Performance Studies Programme (UKZN – Howard College Campus) Adrienne Sichel and ladies and gentlemen of the media, Eric Apelgren, Laurent Clavel, Eléonore Godfroy-Briggs, David Gouldie, Henrike Grohs, Monwabisi Grootboom, Lien Heidenreich, Natasha Hosken (LIFE CHECK) and Katharina von Ruckteschell.

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