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THEATRE
Loveaffair
Venue: Baxter Theatre, Main Rd, Rondebosch. Tel:
(021) 680 3989
Time: 8:00pm
Price: R50 - R95
Performances: 30 Mar - 3 Apr 2010
Genre: Dance
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Leading South African contemporary
integrated dance initiative, the award-winning Remix Dance Company,
celebrates its 10th anniversary and its new home at the Baxter Theatre
Centre with five performances only of a brand new production, Lovaffair.
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.
Ina Wichterich-Mogane is the company dance teacher and the director of
Lovaffair, with Nadine Mckenzie as the assistant to the director, and
choreography is by the company.
Twenty-year-old Mckenzie, who is a performer using a
wheelchair, has been crucial to the creation of Lovaffair and was due to
perform in the new work but instead has had to withdraw due to surgery.
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This year the Remix Dance Company
celebrates a decade of groundbreaking work and this latest production is
no exception. 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.
A further innovation is that the backstage area of the
Baxter’s Theatre will be converted into a performance space called
Flipside, using scaffolding to create a 216-seater venue specifically for
this production.
Remix explores and develops dance which values the honesty
and integrity of the body. Emphasis is placed on a body-centred technical
training which also listens, at a deep level, to what each body is saying
as it moves; the story of the person who is moving and the stories of the
society in which it is moving. It recognises that each person's body holds
their personal as well as their social history. This is the starting point
for all education and performance work: the body: all bodies.
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