Music
Steel-pan supremo Andy Narell will present two workshops on percussion and the art of drumming, on September 4 at the Mega Music Warehouse and September 6 at the Funda Centre, Soweto. Dutch jazz trumpeter Eric Vloeimans will hold a seminar on trumpets and jazz music on September 18 at the Mega Music Warehouse. Scandinavian jazz-fusion group Corpo will present two full-day jazz workshops, at the Gauteng Jazz Academy, Daveyton, and the Funda Centre on September 13 and 14 respectively. Workshops are free. To book, phone Vincentia on 838-6407.
Dance
Three of the international companies performing on the Arts Alive dance
programme will give development workshops. Rosas, the acclaimed Belgian
company, Ivory Coast’s Jeune Ballet d’Afrique Noir and Finnish Kenneth
Kvarnstrom and Company will offer young South African artists the
opportunity to participate in classes concerned with cutting-edge dance and
choreography. For further information contact the Dance Factory at 833-1347.
Poetry
Mutabaruka, the Rasta dub poet and intellectual, will run a performance seminar at the Worker’s Library, Newtown, on September 16. To book, phone Vincentia on 838-6407.
Theatre
Green Ginger, the theatre group from Wales, will offer skills training workshops and the Danish theatre groups The Small Touring Theatre
Company and Teatregruppen Mariehonen will tour schools throughout the
greater Johannesburg region with their edutainment productions. For further
information contact (011) 838-6407.