#Ibokwe

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Rivers State chapter of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) in Rivers State said it received more than

Rivers State chapter of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) in Rivers State said it received more than

Rivers State chapter of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) in Rivers State said it received more than 700 complaints of violence against women in two months.

FIDA Vice Chairman in Rivers State, Nnenna Ibokwe, disclosed this during a chat at the sidelines of the celebration of this year’s elimination of violence against women in Port Harcourt.

Ibokwe decried the increasing trend…

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There is better women representation in Lagos – Ibijoke Sanwo-olu

The first lady and wife of the governor of Lagos State, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-olu has said there is better representation of women in the government of her husband, Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu compared to previous administrations. Speaking through a representative, Dr.Mrs Grace Ibokwe at the 6th Annual summit of the NECA Network of Entreprenuerial Women (NNEW), themed; ‘Power Up, No Limitations’, Dr. Ibijoke said that women are taking active roles in bettering the society, as Lagos State governor has shown his regard for women by admitting a good number of them into his cabinet. In the administration of Babajide Sanwo-olu, women are very well represented, there has been a great improvement in the representation especially at the cabinet.We have about thirteen, women unlike in the previous administration, we are really well represented in this administration. ” On the popular assertion that the role of women is restricted to the kitchen, she replied that; “We have gone pass the days where women duties are limited to the kitchen.Women are doing great things for themselves, the nation and even the world. We have so many women Presidents, Prime Ministers, Commissioners, Captains of Industries, these women have made it on their own.” The program, according to the President of NECA Network of Entrepreneurial Women, Mrs. Modupe Oyekunle is organized for women entrepreneurs to be able to network among themselves and then grow their business, and Nigeria at large. On her part, the Co-founder and Executive Director Falcon Corporation Limited and President of the Nigerian Gas Association, Mrs. Audrey Joe-Ezeigbo, on what she titled, ‘The Eagle Entrepreneur’ spoke about the need to be focused in business, nation building, and integrity. ” there is need for anyone who is an entrepreneur to be focused, tenacious, not be distracted by storm, to persevere, to be able to think pass the current realities and look to the future. It is imperative for all of us to think about nation building and legacy planning, so that we are not just doing business for our today, but that we are trying to build systems and structures, institutions that will outlive ourselves and our generation. ” Ooni @ 45: Oyetola eulogised monarch’s role in national development(Opens in a new browser tab) “It is important to us as Nigerians not to shy away from the integrity question even if it is going to cost us something, we can’t be complaining about government and then in our own spaces we are not doing the right things, we need to be willing to step away from things that look like opportunities if they are going to put us in places of compromise, The only way we build a nation that is sustainable, ethical, a nation that our children will be happy in, is that each and everyone of us is willing to go that extra mile to do something different for the businesses that we run.” Adding also, Executive Vice Chairman, ENL Consortium Ltd. Princess Dr.Vicky Haastrup said; “There are quite a lot that women can do,women carry special grace to be able to achieve whatever they want to achieve. We are in a technology age now,everything is changing,women are no longer discriminated in other parts of the world, why should Nigeria be an exception, even in culture, from the family circle, parents would prefer to educate the boy child over the girl, I think that is wrong. Women in Nigeria and all over the world have been able to prove themselves, we have a lot of Presidents, Prime Ministers, we have women as managing directors of big corporations and establishment and they have done well.So there should not be a limitation to what a girl child can achieve.” Read the full article

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Albert Khoza - Perspectives from Xolelwa "Ollie" Nhlabatsi on Vimeo.

Albert ‘Ibokwe’ Khoza is an actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, performance artist - and a healer. His work captures a state of mind of a gay man and a sangoma (South African traditional healer). He expresses his thoughts by moving between different artistic mediums to explore the world he lives in, and critically question his surroundings, and life itself. Perspectives is a series of mini documentaries that gives us a fresh look into the most diverse, unique and just awesome people that make up Africa today.

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#Thandiswa #Mazwai #Biography #Photos #Wallpapers #food #instagram #lifestyle #live #modelphotography #painting #party #rapper #suicidegirl #tbt

Thandiswa Mazwai is a multi-award winning South African musician, and is as well the add vocalist and songwriter of Bongo Maffin.Thandiswa’s very first attempt to get noticed occurred at the Shell Road to Fame talent show but Thandiswa did not even make it to the semi-finals round. She did, even so, catch the eye of musician and producer Don Laka, who arranged to consist of her in a project he was working on. And so she began her career in 1998 with Bongo Maffin, one of the pioneering bands of Kwaito. She became widely recognized as the voice of South Africaâ€s conscious youth, their compositions consistently combining dance floor favourites with thought-provoking lyrics. They were invited to perform all previously mentioned the world, and shared the phase with musical icons Stevie Wonder, the Marley clan, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Chaka Khan, Sean Paul, Steel Pulse and Skunk Anansie, among others. Their contribution to the South African musical cannon earned Bongo Maffin several awards, among them South African Music Awards, the Kora All Africa Music Awards, and the Metro FM Music Awards.

After five albums with Bongo Maffin she ventured onto a solo career. Her first project, Zabalaza (2004), reached double platinum status and won numerous awards, including a Kora award for Best African Female and 4 South African Music Awards, including Best Album. It was also nominated for the BBC Radio 3 Planet awards. Her second album, Ibokwe (2009), reached gold status in the first few weeks of its release and her live DVD, Dance of the Forgotten Free (2010), won Best Female Artist and Best Live DVD in 2011. The Guardian has called her “South Africa’s finest female contemporary singer.”

Her music is typically deeply political and her compositions include traditional Xhosa rhythms, Mbaqanga, reggae, kwaito and funk and jazz sounds.

Name Thandiswa Mazwai Height Naionality South African Date of Birth 31-March-1976 Place of Birth Johannesburg, South Africa Famous for singing

The post Thandiswa Mazwai Biography Photos Wallpapers appeared first on Beautiful Women.

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Thandiswa Mazwai - Ingoma (Free mp3)

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Dance Umbrella 2018: Calling back the past

04.03.2006 FNB Dance Umbrella. Program 9. Johannesburg University Arts Centre. ‘ Men-Jaro’ by Vincent Sekwati Koko Mantsoe. Photograph : John Hogg.

Happy Birthday and Happy Valentine’s Day Dance Umbrella!

On Valentine’s Day in 1989 – during the height of the cultural boycott – the Dance Umbrella festival came into being.

What began as an idea of two respected arts journalists, Adrienne Sichel and Marilyn Jenkins – who felt that there was a need for a platform for contemporary dance in the country – was carefully put into motion by the respected businessman Philip Stein of Vita Promotions and resulted in a week-long festival in which 16 local choreographers participated. Since then Dance Umbrella has been presenting exceptional and groundbreaking contemporary dance to Johannesburg dance audiences.

Now, in celebration of its 30th anniversary, Dance Umbrella 2018 – 30 Years On will be presenting new contemporary works at various Johannesburg theatres: Wits Theatre Complex, the Dance Factory in Newtown, the UJ Arts Centre, the Joburg Fringe Theatre and the Hillbrow Theatre from March 6 -18, 2018.

Opening the 2018 festival on March 6 and 7, at the UJ Centre for the Arts are two works by two notable Dance Umbrella alumni – Vincent Sekwati Mantsoe with his re-worked Gula Matari, which premiered at the Dance Umbrella in 1992, and Gregory Vuyani Maqoma with Mayhem.

Musa Hlatshwayo – DODA.

Both Mantsoe and Maqoma trained at Moving into Dance Mophatong. After presenting his first piece Gula at Dance Umbrella in 1992, Mantsoe went on to become an internationally renowned teacher, dancer and choreographer; likewise Maqoma, who premiered his first work at Dance Umbrella in 1994, also went on to enjoy an international career, creating works in the USA, UK, Europe, Africa and Eastern Europe. Maqoma has, to date, premiered most of his new works at Dance Umbrella before going on to present internationally.

Both artists used the Dance Umbrella festival as a ‘space to play’ … creating works that they then tested on the platform.

Stepping further back into Dance Umbrella’s past, some of the commissioned choreographers for this 30th anniversary edition who were part of the inaugural season of the festival include:

Steven Cohen – Chandeliers.

Robyn Orlin and Gerard Bester, who premiered works at Dance Umbrella’s first season, went on to work together in 1998, the 10th anniversary of Dance Umbrella, with Orlin creating daddy, i’ve seen this piece six times before and i still don’t know why they’re hurting each other. ‘Daddy’ subsequently toured internationally for 10 years and won Orlin various awards, including an Olivier in London in 2003. Orlin went on to enjoy an illustrious international career and Bester currently runs the Hillbrow Theatre Project.

Bester, in collaboration with Alan Parker, who presented his first work at Dance Umbrella 10 years ago, presents a new work Sometimes I have to Lean In…on March 8 and 9 at 19:00 at the Wits Amphitheatre.

Orlin will present her internationally celebrated work and so you see… our honourable blue sky and ever-enduring sun… can only be consumed slice by slice, which features the beautifully fearless Albert Ibokwe Khoza with Thabo Pule, on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 13 and 14 at 18:00 at the Dance Factory. It is produced by City Theatre and Dance Groups, Festival Montpelier Danse 2016; Festival d’Automne a Paris; Kinneksbond; Centre Culturel Mamer, Luxembourg Centre Dramatique National de Haute-Normandie and la Ferme du Buisson, scene Nationale de Marne.

Dance Umbrella 2012. Prog_02. The Market Theatre. 17 February 2012. ‘Exit/Exist’ concept and choreography by Gregory Maqoma and Vuyani Dance Theatre. Music performed by Complete – Bubele Mgele, Linda thobela,Happy Motha and Bonginkosi Zulu withguitarist Giuliano Modarelli. Photograph: John Hogg/Dance Umbrella. Photograph by John Hogg.

Another notable choreographer at the inaugural season, Magogo Sylvia Glasser, founder of Moving into Dance Mophatong, MIDM, now celebrating its Ruby (40th) anniversary, has enjoyed an almost symbiotic relationship with Dance Umbrella with many of its dancers and choreographers using the festival as a launch pad to project their dance careers.

Moving into Dance Mophatong starts its anniversary year with a new work Embracing Gravity, which includes Glasser’s Stone Cast Ritual, and a new work from David Gouldie, who will work with the company and students. It will be presented at the Wits Theatre on March 15 and 16 at 19:30.

Other Dance Umbrella alumni who are also commissioned choreographers include:

the always contentious Steven Cohen, who Dance Umbrella audiences first encountered 20 years ago with his work Chandelier. Cohen, who collaborated with dancer/choreographer the late Elu, took contemporary dance to another level. Most of their work, which was extremely successful internationally, always premiered at the Dance Umbrella. Cohen is now resident in France. For the 30th anniversary he brings a new work (which premiered last year at the Montpellier Danse Festival in France), put your heart under your feet…and walk… to the Wits Theatre on Thursday March 8 and Friday March 9 at 21:00. It is presented in partnership with the French Institut South Africa; Montpellier Danse 2017; Fumain TROP and French Institut Novelle-Aquitaine.

> another notable alumna Jayesperi Moopen, founder and artistic director of the Tribhangi Dance Theatre, first showed a work at the festival in 1994. Moopen has created a new work called Elements which will be presented at the Wits Theatre on March 13 and 14 at 20:30. Two totally diverse companies, the Cape Town-based Cape Dance Company and Tribhangi Dance Theatre explore and celebrate the joy of discovery.

> also from 1994 is PJ Sabbagha who has been creating work at Dance Umbrella ever since, and has, over the years developed a style that is recognised internationally. For the 2018 season he premieres a new work called Noah at the Dance Factory on Friday March 16 and Saturday March 17 at 18:00. Noah is a return to and final part of Sabbagha’s “Noah’s” trilogy which started in 1998 with Noah’s Phobia followed by Noah’s Drowning. The final part of the trilogy brings into focus the ever-present realities of environmental degradation and the immediate environment we occupy presently.

> Sello Pesa started showing new work at the Dance Umbrella in 1995; he is another Dance Umbrella alumnus who has also gone on to enjoy an international career. Now, in 2018 brings a work that premiered at the inaugural Centre for a Less Good Idea Season 1 called Bag Beatings. This will be presented at the Wits Downstairs Theatre on March 15 and 16 at 21:00.

> and Musa Hlatshwayo, a Durban-based artist, first presented a work at Dance Umbrella in 1996. His 2018 work is DODA, in which he explores black male identity and issues around modern day and traditional masculinity. It is part of the Double Bill to be presented at the Dance Factory on Saturday March 10 at 18:00 and on Sunday 11 March at 14:30.

Other highlights at Dance Umbrella 2018 are a series of Master Classes, presented by Vincent Mantsoe and Gregory Maqoma on March 7; Gerard Bester and Alan Parker on March 10; Fana Tshabalala on March 11; Louise Coetzer on March 12 and Musa Hlatshwayo on March 12 and the popular Face to Face conversations, facilitated in partnership with Drama for Life, which will take place with the same artists after the classes. The Master Classes are free and to register to attend please call Lethabo at 076 162 3999.

Dance Umbrella 2018 will also feature works from up and coming choreographer while the New Dance Programme will feature works from students and young artists.

Dance Umbrella 2018 is funded by the National Lotteries Commission. Other partners include Creative Feel Magazine; National Arts Council; the French Institut South Africa; Goethe-Institut Johannesburg; Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia; Splitbeam; Drama for Life and Business and Arts South Africa.

Tickets range from R50.00 to R150.00 – book at www.webtickets.co.za

An Early Bird Special is available from January 15 – February 15: tickets booked in this period get a 40% discount – call the hotline – 076 162 3999 or 011 673 0035 to take advantage of this special.

Block bookings of 10 or more offer a 30% discount and school block bookings of 10 or more will get 50% discount. For block booking discounts and programme updates, please call the hotline – 076 162 3999 or 011 673 0035 or e-mail info@danceforum.co.za

For the Dance Umbrella 2018 programme, updates on the Master Classes and Face to Face interviews please visit www.danceforumsouthafrica.co.za

Follow Dance Umbrella on Twitter: @danceumbrellaSA / Facebook: Dance Umbrella Festival Johannesburg / Instagram: Dance_Umbrella_SA and please use #danceumbrella2018 and #30thanniversary.

Media: for interviews, images and accreditation please contact Di Sparks, Behind the Scenes Communications, 011 640 1500 / 073 208 8483 / disparks@artslink.co.za

Dance Umbrella 2018: Calling back the past was originally published on Artsvark

[llemaoana]

...and we all erupted! #Repost @ibokwe with @get_repost ・・・ Markfish thats not bra hugh mxm such ignorence

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#TBT with @ibokwe at the #ubuntubookfestival. (at Eyethu Lifestyle Centre)

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Omama nama Shangane. #ibokwe #abaphansi #mahlaletsheni #african #spirituality #sangoma #africa #colours #littleoldbadkid

[celestecambaza-blog]

One of my #King and #Queen @thandiswamazwai #RebelXhosa singer/ one of the reason makes me love her artwork. Is the #capacity of use her Art skills to serve to society in form of awareness, and more of that she has what we say in my native language #xixangane : #xikwembo of #southernafrica, wich means #spirit on her. When i listen her work #zabalaza #ibokwe it connects me to the ground. I wish her long live, this planet need more artists like her.

[anathijay]

I may be a bit delayed here but hey I gotta say this. I love love love Ibokwe, especially the title track. 

The album Ibokwe by one of South Africa's finest, Thandiswa Mazwai, was released in 2009. This album is a follow up to an album KingTha (as, we, her fans, know her) released in 2004, Zabalaza when she went solo, leaving the Kwaito/Afro Pop band, Bongo Muffin. Featured on the album are the hit single Ingoma featuring the Legendary Hugh Masekela, Thongo Lam (Iyeza), Thandiswa's plee to the ancestors for guidance and the amazing Abenguni (one of my favourites). In this album, this lady went back to her roots as a Xhosa woman. If I knew better, I'd say uyathwasa (she's becoming a Sangoma) and is taking a different route, musically and seemingly spiritually. She keeps on asking the ancestors to shed light in her path, seeking guidance. 

I don't know where I would start expressing my love for Thandiswa on this album because her art goes beyond just being that. I suppose I should reserve that for another day, in the meantime get yourself involved in the vibe.

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Thandiswa Mazwai performs"Ibokwe" at Mandela Day 2009

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Dance Umbrella celebrates 30 years

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Dance Umbrella 2018, the premier platform of South African contemporary choreography and dance, will run at various theatres and venues in Johannesburg from March 6-18, 2018.

Funded by the National Lotteries Commission, the internationally renowned annual festival will present 18 programmes of new contemporary dance works from both local and international choreographers.

Dance Umbrella 2018 opens on March 6 and 7 at the UJ Centre for the Arts with two works: Gula Matari by Vincent Sekwati Mantsoe and Mayhem by Gregory Vuyani Maqoma.

Gregory Maqoma. Photo: John Jogg.

Gula Matari, which premiered at Dance Umbrella 1992, promises to be a celebratory opening of the festival. Performed by the Vuyani Dance Theatre, the dancers become like birds that whistle and use their heads to communicate with other birds. Maqoma’s Mayhem reflects on our altered state of mind, our country’s state of confusion and the chaos we are left with. The programme is presented in collaboration with the French-Institut South Africa.

Gerard Bester, who was in the inaugural Dance Umbrella in 1989 collaborates with Alan Parker, who presented his first work at Dance Umbrella 10 years ago, with a new work Sometime’s I have to Lean in… at the Wits Amphitheatre on March 8 and 9 at 19:00. The artists will create a conversation between their two bodies within a common space.

South African-born Moya Michael will premiere a new work Coloured Swans 1: KHOISWAN in collaboration with South African artist Tracey Rose, at the Wits Downstairs Theatre on March 8 and 9 at 20:00.

Vincent Mantsoe. Photo: John Jogg.

Created at the Ebhudlweni Arts Centre, Mpumalanga, the artists investigate why the world restricts to black and white; what about the shades of grey? There is a wide range of colours reflected by the skins of the global majority. The work is presented in collaboration with the Government of Flanders; BoZar; CoKot and KVS Creations.

Steven Cohen, who first presented a work at Dance Umbrella 20 years ago, will present a new piece that premiered at Montpellier Danse 2017 in France – put your heart under your feet… and walk – a tribute to his late partner Elu, on March 8 and 9 at 21:00 in the Wits Theatre.

Dance Umbrella 2018 is funded by the National Lotteries Commission. Other partners include Creative Feel Magazine; National Arts Council; the French Institut South Africa; Goethe-Institut Johannesburg; Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia; Splitbeam; Drama for Life and Business and Arts South Africa.

Tickets range from R50.00 to R150.00 – book at www.webtickets.co.za.

An Early Bird Special is available from January 15 – February 15: tickets booked in this period get a 40% discount – call 011 673 0035 to take advantage of this special.

Block bookings of 10 or more offer a 30% discount and school block bookings of 10 or more will get 50% discount. For block booking discounts and programme updates, please call 011 673 0035 or email info@danceforum.co.za

For the Dance Umbrella 2018 programme, updates on the Master Classes and Face to Face interviews please visit www.danceforumsouthafrica.co.za

Follow Dance Umbrella on: Twitter: @danceumbrellaSA / Facebook: Dance Umbrella Festival Johannesburg / Instagram: Dance_Umbrella_SA

Shaken to the core by the death of Elu, as well as that of his beloved childhood care-giver Nomsa in 2016, Cohen created this work as a message of love to his soul mate; it speaks to anyone who has known immeasurable loss and the necessity to keep moving in the face of petrifying grief. (This work is not open to persons under 18). Presented in partnership with the French Institut South Africa; Montpellier Danse 2017; Fumain TROP; French Institut Novelle-Aquitaine.

Hillbrowfication – this work created by German choreographer’s Constanza Macras and Lizi Estaras will premiere at the Hillbrow Theatre on March 9 at 18:00 and March 10 at 14:30.

Ranging from ages 5 to 22, 21 children and youths from the Hillbrow Theatre Project together with three professional dancers will explore the Hillbrow of the future and challenge and inspire the young to re-imagine their neighbourhood and to look at their perceptions and experiences of xenophobia and violence. This work is a co-production between Constanza Macras and the Hillbrow Theatre Project with Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, supported by Goethe Institut Johannesburg and is funded by the TURN Fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

The first Double Bill in the festival will be presented at the Dance Factory on March 10 at 18:00 and March 11 at 14:30. Cape Town-based choreographer Louise Coetzer presents IN C – a work that gives a 21st century treatment of contemporary dance contrasting synchronicity and counterpoint. Sharing the programme is Durban-based Musa Hlatshwayo with a work DODA in which the choreographer explores black male identity and issues around modern day and traditional masculinity.

Fana Tshabalala collaborates with Swiss choreographer Vladimir Ippolitov with a work called Men which is inspired by the idea of the “ideal kind of Man” within society. How have the roles and responsibilities changed through the years, leaving “Man in a state of bewilderment? This new work will be presented at Joburg Fringe Theatre on March 10 at 19:30 and March 11 at 14:30. It will be partnered by the annual National School of the Arts Festival of Fame. The work is presented in collaboration with Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council; Embassy of Foreign Artists, Broken Borders and Geneva Dance Events.

On Sunday, March 11 from 10:00, up-and-coming choreographers will present new works on the New Dance programme. Artists from Durban, Cape Town, and other regions will share the Wits Theatre stage and the programme includes young artists from Vuyani Dance Theatre, Moving into Dance Mophatong and the National School of the Arts as well as from other parts of South Africa. Entrance is R50.00.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, March 13 and 14 at 18:00 at the Dance Factory, Robyn Orlin will present her internationally acclaimed work, and so you see… our honourable blue sky and ever-enduring sun… can only be consumed slice by slice.

“…slice by slice” features the beautifully fearless Albert Ibokwe Khoza and Thabo Pule, and once again shows that Orlin is not afraid to colonise Mozart’s Requiem – they take us on a journey through the seven deadly sins finding themselves up and close with the norms of the world. Produced by City Theatre and Dance Groups, Festival Montpelier Danse 2016; Festival d’Automne a Paris; Kinneksbond; Centre Culturel Mamer, Luxembourg Centre Dramatique National de Haute-Normandie; la Ferme du Buisson, scene Nationale de Marne-la-Vallee with the support of Arcadi Ile-de-France.

The second Double Bill can be seen at the Wits Downstairs Theatre on March 13 and 14 at 19:15. Sick by Gustin Makgeledise is drawn from researched material regarding human trafficking and prostitution. It captures real-life stories of the innocents- the doers and watchers; where my rights begin and where yours end. Sharing the stage are Phumlani Nyanga and Thabo Kobeli with a new work In-Time which looks at how we work with time within our lives; chained by the circles of life we lose the time that is in-between. In-Time was partnered by the Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative and created at the Ebhudlweni Arts Centre, Mpumalanga.

Jayesperi Moopen has created a new work on Cape Town-based The Cape Dance Company, called Elements. While we continue to remain impactful and relevant through our art we draw on the elements like Mother Earth, water, wind, fire and space to inspire movement that only these forces of nature can provide, in its beauty and destruction. Two completely diverse companies, Cape Dance Company and Tribhangi Dance Theatre explore and celebrate the joy of discovery. Elements will be presented at the Wits Theatre on March 13 and 14 at 20:30.

Moving into Dance Mophatong celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2018 and it starts the year with a new work Embracing Gravity, which includes Stone Cast Ritual by Sylvia Glasser and a new work from David Gouldie, who will work with the company and students. The programme promises to be a highlight of the Dance Umbrella 2018 on March 15 and 16 at 19:30 at the Wits Theatre.

Sello Pesa brings back a work that premiered at the inaugural Centre for a Less Good Idea Season 1 called Bag Beatings. This will be presented in Wits Downstairs Theatre on March 15 and 16 at 21:00.

On March 17 and 18, PJ Sabbagha premieres a new work called Noah at the Dance Factory on March 16 and 17 at 18:00. Noah is a return to and the final part of Sabbagha’s Noah’s trilogy which started in 1998 with Noah’s Phobia followed by Noah’s Drowning. The final part of the trilogy brings into focus the ever-present realities of environmental degradation and the immediate environment we currently occupy.

Themba Mbuli presents a double bill of two new works: Auth(o)rise which questions how women become authors of their own lives if they are being told how they should live and Memory Box is an autobiographical solo. The programme will be presented at the Wits Downstairs on March 17 at 19:00 and March 18 at 11:30.

Sylvaine Strike collaborates with Owen Lonzar on a new work called Doll which premieres at the Wits Theatre on March 17 at 20:00 and March 18 at 14:30. The two artists explore the life of an online order, ownership, desire, disappointment, objectification and Harvey Weinstein.

The final programme on Dance Umbrella 2018 is Nothing Makes Sense by Thulani Chauke which will be presented in the Wits Amphitheatre on March 17 at 21:00 and March 18 at 13:00. An interrogation of violence with a specific focus on sex, race, gender, sexuality, class, culture and physical ability, it is an investigation on the full spectrum of violence that we are subjected to daily. It is presented in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Project Space, Broken Borders and Unmute Dance Company.

Other highlights at Dance Umbrella 2018 are a series of Master Classes – presented by Vincent Mantsoe and Gregory Maqoma on March 7; Gerard Bester and Alan Parker on March 10; Fana Tshabalala on March 11; Louise Coetzer on March 12 and Musa Hlatshwayo on March 12 – and Face to Face conversations, facilitated in partnership with Drama for Life, which will take place with the same artists after the classes.

To book a place for the Master Classes please call Lethabo at 011 673 0035.

  Dance Umbrella celebrates 30 years was originally published on Artsvark

[llemaoana]

Eish. Leya bona he?!?? #Repost @ibokwe (@get_repost) ・・・ Mara aboBathabile bawrong yazi taking groceries to the late Karabos home,who said her family was poor and they can't menage they just lost their child and who holds amagroceries lawo nezandla ama wheatbicks stunt to be visible #bayiqhibile #Ndimkile and then men are trash