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THEATRE
My Country - South Africa
Venue: Artscape, DF Malan St, Cape Town. Tel: (021) 421 7695.
Time: Tue @ 7:00pm, Wed - Sat @ 8:30pm, Sun @ 6:00pm
Price: R20 - R50
Performances: 15 & 16 Jun 2010
Genre: Dance
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In celebration of the 2010 Soccer World Cup and
acknowledging the great strides made in the Arts Focus Schools, Artscape
and the Western Cape Education Department are partnering in an innovative
new project that will showcase the exceptional dance talent emerging from
these schools.
Professional choreographers have been assigned to each
school to produce a performance for the production of My Country - South
Africa, which will be presented in the Artscape Theatre on 15 June at
19:30 and 16 June 2010 (Youth Day) at 15:00 and 19:30. It is directed by
Alfred Hinkel.
Some of the choreographers are graduates from Jazzart’s
Young Adult Training and Job Creation Programme as well as from Jazzart
Dance Theatre, Ikapa Dance Theatre and Remix Dance Company. They include
Ina Wichterich-Mogane, Ananda Fuchs, Gordon Andries, Sbo Ndaba, Abeedah
Medell, Marlin Zoutman, Theo Ndindwe, Grant van Ster, Mziyanda Mancam and
Douglas Griffiths.
A number of works from the Visual Art and Design learners
will be on display as a preview to their Matric exhibition scheduled for
later in the year at the Iziko South African National Gallery. Graduates
from the Arts Focus Schools currently involved in their internship at
Jazzart Dance Theatre, La Rosa Spanish Dance Theatre and the UCT School of
Dance will also be performing.
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The focus school project began in 2006 as one of the
targeted interventions to establish selected schools in each district as
pathfinders and lead institutions in their fields. Driven by the purpose
of ensuring access to quality education in the full range of arts
subjects, especially in disadvantaged areas, these schools have been
promoted to ensure excellence in the nurturing and comprehensive training
of learners with exceptional talent, interest or aptitude and to improve
the supply of high quality skills, particularly scarce skills, which are
responsive to societal and economic needs.
This project forms part of Artscape’s month of celebrating
the achievement of youth in the Western Cape where a platform for young
artists is provided to demonstrate their skills in a professional
environment. They are also introduced to the high standard of theatre
practice and ‘behind the scene’ teams that help create that perfect
memorable performance - an occasion where parents, friends and teachers
can proudly indulge in their success.
Participating schools include: Alexander Sinton High (Athlone),
Belhar High (Belhar), Cedar Secondary (Mitchell’s Plain), Chris Hani
Secondary (Khayelitsha), Eerste Rivier Secondary (Eerste Rivier),
Schoonspruit Secondary (Malmesbury), South Peninsula High (Diep River),
Worcester Secondary (Worcester) and Wynberg High, (Wynberg).
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