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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Art Exhibits, Jobs in Gateway, Short Story Winners and Opportunities for Artistic Directors



artSPACE durban exhibition coming up

23 June – 27 June 2014  (1 week)

In the Main Gallery
Flatfoot Dance Company 




(Photo - VAL ADAMSON)
For the week 23 – 27 June 2014, Durban’s inimitable FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY will be resident at artSPACE durban. In a meeting of dancers and fine artistsFLATFOOT will work in artSPACE durban giving local artists an opportunity to paint, draw and create around the dancers as they rehearse, dance and create choreography. FLATFOOT will continue to work in their normal day routine and will open up their daily work process.
The week will involve session where artists can watch and engage the dancers in their daily rehearsals but there will also be specific sessions where the dancers will be a little more still to promote portraiture (see schedule below).
The week will culminate in a final performance called “SOUTHERN EXPOSURE” by FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY on Friday 27 June at 6.30pm (with bar facilities open) and curator Karen Bradtke will select some of the art works generated over the week to put on display in the gallery at the Fridayevent. FLATFOOT will perform two works; “UGUHBU” by Sifiso Khumalo and “the inheritance of loss” by Lliane Loots.
Fees for artists to participate are R100 per day or R350 for the week and on June 25 there is a special portraiture session from 5.30pm - 7.30pm and the cost os R100. Tickets for the performance on the 27 June are R50 or R25 for those taking part in the artist residency.
For enquires and bookings for the art residency, please contact artSPACE durban: 031 – 312 0793.
For enquires about the Friday night performance, contact Clare on 082 – 875 6065.

THE WEEK SCHEDULE WITH FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY

23 June (Monday)
9.30 – 10.30am: company warm-up technique class
10.30 – 11am: break
11am – 1pm: rehearsals and improvisation
1 – 2pm: lunch
2 – 3pm: portraiture and still poses (Jabu Siphika  [f] and Sifiso Majola [m])

24 June (Tuesday)
9.30 – 10.30am: company warm-up technique class
10.30 – 11am: break
11am – 1pm: rehearsals and improvisation
1 – 2pm: lunch
2 – 3pm: portraiture and still poses (Tshediso Kabulu [m] and Sifiso Khumalo [m])

25 June (Wednesday)
9.30 – 10.30am: company warm-up technique class
10.30 – 11am: break
11am – 1pm: rehearsals and improvisation
SPECIAL EVENING SESSION:
5.30 – 7.30pm: portraiture and still poses  (Julia Wilson [f] and Zinhle Nzama [f])

26 June (Thursday)
9.30 – 10.30am: company warm-up technique class
10.30 – 11am: break
11am – 1pm: rehearsals and improvisation

27 June (Friday)
9.30 – 10.30am: company warm-up technique class
10.30 – 11am: break
11am – 1pm: rehearsals and improvisation
1 – 2pm: lunch
6.30pm: “SOUTHERN EXPOSURE” performance event with FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY

and
In the Middle Gallery:

Art 21 videos :

Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century, the Peabody Award-winning biennial series produced by the contemporary art organization Art21 (based in the US), provides viewers a unique look at today’s artists.The series reveals artists’ perspectives on current affairs, politics, economics, history and popular culture, as well as showcases the artists’ working processes and their studios. 

We will be showing the videos of ZA'sl well-known William Kentridge. 
"William Kentridge Anything is Possible", then for the course of the week have on hand: William Kentridge  The Eliot Norton Lectures (2012).  Also we will make available the Seasons 1-6 for viewers in the gallery to watch.


Jobs in the Umhlanga Area

Want to work in the new Country Road store in Gateway?

Send your CV to countryroadhr2@woolworths.co.za 



MONDAYS AT SIX AT ST CLEMENTS
MONDAY 23 JUNE

SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2014

The results of our short story competition for 2014
will be announced at St Clements on Monday 23 June.

The top ten stories and authors will be announced
and awards made to the top two authors.

Thereafter, all authors present will be invited to read their stories.
There will be time for questions and discussion.

Although the number of submissions for the 2014 competition (66 stories)
was less than in previous years, the standard was undiminished.  

Table bookings: phone St Clements, 031 202 2511


Atelier for Young Festival Managers in Beirut,
21-27 March 2015: apply now!

Are you part of the next generation of artistic festival directors? 
Do you want to broaden your programming skills and be inspired by colleagues 
and experienced leaders in the field? 
Do you want to join a new network of future festival leaders worldwide?

How to apply

The application form must be submitted by 12 September 2014
All information on the Atelier, selection criteria, application procedure and 
application form can be found on the Atelier website.


In case of questions please contact atelier@efa.aef.eu or call +32 9 241 8080.

This edition by +Fred Felton 







Friday, June 13, 2014

Plenty on offer for Durban this weekend and coming up Cycling for a good cause



This Long Weekend there will be plenty on offer for Durban



Not The Grahamstown Festival

Date20-22 and 27-29 June 2014 
Price: R60 (show only)
           R120 (show and dinner at John Dory's or Spur)
           R40 (pensioners, students and for block bookings)
Bookings: Computicket or at any Shoprite or Checkers store.Tickets can also be purchased on the night at box office, which opens two hours prior to the show, should seats be available.

Dates and Showtimes:

Friday: 20 June
7pm Opening Night- Super Mokoena

Saturday: 21 June
4pm- Prince Senie
6pm- Super Mokoena
8pm- Into the Abyss

Sunday: 22 June
4pm- Into the abyss
6pm- Prince Senie

Friday: 27 June
7pm- Ex- Men

Saturday: 28 June
4pm- SoundGaze: Moving Images of Marie in Woyzeck
6pm- Ex-Men
8pm- She Put the I in Punchline

Sunday: 29 June
4pm- She Put the I in Punchline
6pm- SoundGaze: Moving Images of Marie in Woyzeck


Highlights include:

Ex-Men - The Last Stand

Presented by: On Fire Comedy and Durban Society of Comedy (DSOC)


Two of Durban’s finest Comedy Super heroes team up and return to Grahamstown (and now Durban) to tackle the ultimate villain – DATING!
Catch Jem Atkins and Glen Bo in a hilarious show loaded with top-class stand-up and sketch comedy action about crazy ex’s, Guy Code, surviving dangerous relationships and dating mutants! Expect a roller coaster ride of truth, bull & hilarity.


Super Mokoena

Presented by: The AUC

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... HAIBO! An almost-new comedy of interplanetary proportion. Get ready for the flight of your life, as you meet the Man of Steel in a way you never have before! Thrills, chills, spills and something else that rhymes with those first three! Laughter, hilarity, shadow puppets and bromance! A comic treat that is not to be missed!


She Put The I In Punch Line

Presented by ScruffySession Productions

A one woman show, written by one woman who probes her identity as a South African Indian girl. In an awkward account of personal history within political history within prehistoric...uh...history. The piece unravels in an existential frame; questioning ideas of gender, culture and racial identity.
The show is written from a personal point of view that hopes to make others laugh, relate and think. 


Bookings at Computicket


'Youth Day Jive & Shisa-Nyama'
The KZNSA aweh! programme in association with The Nelisa Mzimela Legacy Foundation will be hosting a 'Youth Day Jive & Shisa-Nyama' at the KZNSA [166 Bulwer Road, Glenwood, Durban] on 16 June 2014, another of the KZNSA's Social Art 2014/15 Programme projects.                 

This event is in commemoration of the Soweto Student Uprising of 1976 as South Africa celebrates twenty years of Democracy and Freedom, with Youth Day marking thirty eight years this year. It is also an extension of the exhibition now on at the gallery, titled 'what u say 'bout what', which looks at ways in which the youth can make their voices and opinions known through creative acts.

The day will be filled with a variety of activities for the enjoyment of the whole family and different age groups. The event will showcase young Durban talent in various disciplines of the creative arts, capturing our bustling city life with many colourful live performances and multiple cultural experiences. 

The event opens at 2pm, with a family afternoon till 4:30pm, which includes open Mic sessions with storytellers, mime artists and a special appearance from learners from Ntuzuma Township.

At 5pm, it is student uprising time, and a small cover charge of R20 allows you to jive to isicathamiya, hip hop, electro hip hop, kwaito, pop and new experimental sounds, as well as watch theatre performances and live interactive fashion shows against a backdrop of film. As part of our entrepreneurship support, a ’Shisa-Nyama and quartz' combo will be on sale - the event aims to fundraise for the Ntuzuma based organisation.  Lovers of the visual arts can view the current exhibition of young artists from secondary and tertiary institutions in and around KwaZulu Natal.

For more information please contact Nelisa Mzimela on 0786095201 or E-mail:ntuzumaartsfestival@gmail.com.


Cycling For Good In KZN 




Date: 22 - 24 August


STARS OF THE BALLET RUSSIA IN SOUTH AFRICA
Celebrated Russian composer Tchaikovsky created the music for three of the world’s most loved and enduring ballets – Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker.
His legacy will live on when Stars of the Ballet Russia tour South Africa in August with a stirring programme which features excerpts from both Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty.
Choreographed by Yury Vetrov, former director of the Bolshoi Ballet, the programme will also feature excerpts from Paquita. Staged for the first time in Russia in 1847 for The Imperial Ballet of St Petersburg by Marius Petipa, the ballet was revived in 1881 with new pieces specially composed by composer Ludwig Minkus.

All three featured ballets are major cornerstones of the traditional classical ballet repertory and have been staged over centuries by ballet companies throughout the world.
Stars of the Ballet Russia comes to Durban for two shows only on August 5 and 6 at the Playhouse Opera theatre.
Vetrov started his career as a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Theatre and then trained under the direction of world-renowned choreographer Yury Grigorovich before completing his ballet master training at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1982.

He created the television film ballets Adagio and This Wonderful World and choreographed several famous dance scenes in the operas, The Spanish Hour (Ravel) and The Masquerade Ball (Verdi).
From 1990 to 1994 he was the artistic director of The Bolshoi Ballet and subsequently choreographed Don Quixote and Cinderella for the Russian National Ballet Company.
He currently works as a choreographer in various Russian and international ballet companies and teaches at the Moscow State University.

The programme he has prepared for the Stars of the Ballet Russia South African tour includes Acts 2 and 4 from Swan Lake, the pas de deux from Sleeping Beauty and the grand pas from Paquita.
Tickets range from R150 to R280. There are a limited number of tickets at R100 for pensioners and children under 12.
Shows are at 7.30pm and tickets are available from Computicket.