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THEATRE
Lovaffair
Venue: Baxter Theatre, Main Rd, Rondebosch. Tel:
083 915 8000.
Time: Mon - Sat @ 8:00pm
Price: R120 - R130
Performances: 11 - 20 Aug 2010
Genre: Dance
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Remix Dance Company’s Lovaffair, which
had its world premiere in March this year, returns to Flipside at the
Baxter.
With this production the award-winning
and leading South African contemporary integrated dance initiative, now
resident at the Baxter Theatre Centre, also celebrates 10 years of
innovative and groundbreaking work. This has been made possible through
the generous investment of philanthropic international businessman Roger
Jungblut, CEO of UAL’s Youngblood.
Directed by Ina Wichterich-Mogane, who is
also their dance teacher, the five-member, full-time company comprises
Malcolm Black, Lee-anne Meyer, Nadine Mckenzie, Andile Vellem and Marlin
Zoutman. They are joined by actor, director and composer Bongile Mantsai
and 2008 Fleur du Cap Best Actress winner Chuma Sopotela.
Twenty-year-old Mckenzie, who is the
assistant to the director, is a performer using a wheelchair. She has been
crucial to the creation of Lovaffair and was due to perform in the new
work in March but had to withdraw due to surgery.
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Veteran dance and arts writer Adrienne
Sichel best described the company and its work: “That spirit of
experimentation without ever compromising artistic integrity and utter
professionalism makes this company an ideal match for the Baxter and its
newly appointed artistic director and renowned theatre-maker Lara Foot.
Judging by its track record and the transcendental sorcery of Lovaffair,
this dance company isn’t only levelling the proverbial social playground,
rife with prejudice, they are totally transforming it.”
The production combines differently-abled
dancers as well as actors and gives further meaning and expression to the
term integrated dance. Artistic Director Malcolm Black explains, “Firstly
the cast is so diverse, then there is diversity of bodies and styles and
then we have two actors joining us. We are used to diversity but in this
regard where we combine dance and drama we have less experience. So it is
equally exciting and challenging.”
Sopotela and Mantsai, both cast members
of the multiple-award-winning Karoo Moose, and Aardklop Best Actor
award-winners for their performances, have been brought on board to give
the production another dimension.
Remix explores and develops dance which
values the honesty and integrity of the body. As the first and one of the
longest-standing integrated dance companies in the country, Remix seeks,
through its work, to simultaneously entertain, educate and challenge
attitudes and policies in the human rights area with programmes of solid
artistic integrity and excellence. In particular, social and cultural
attitudes towards dance, gender and disability within the dance sector are
tackled. Great emphasis is placed on audience development in the disabled
communities, where transport is difficult and where a culture of watching
theatre and dance should still be developed in all South African sectors.
Remix continues to pioneer innovative productions and collaborations.
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