Based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal is the acclaimed Flatfoot Dance Company which continues to produce emotionally-charged works of considerable originality and depth.
The company’s new production is entitled Earth Lines which is choreographed by Sifiso E. Kweyama and company director Lliane Loots and features dancers Jabu Siphika, Nobuhle Khawula, Thobeka Quvane, Sifiso Kitsona Khumalo, Vusi Makanya, S’fiso Magesh Ngcobo and Mlondi Zondi. Earth Lines is comprised of the two acclaimed works by Flatfoot which were chosen to open the 2011 edition of the prestigious Dance Umbrella in Johannesburg. Kweyama’s work Circle is a haunting ritual dance theatre work strongly influenced by Kweyama’s rural KZN roots. The second work in Earth Lines is Loots’ controversial and critically acclaimed Bloodlines, a swirling psychodrama that dives head-first into a political dreamscape as it engages
questions of home, belonging and identity and it ponders what it means to be a contemporary African. Collaborating with Loots in this work is spoken word poet Iain Ewok Robinson and filmmaker Karen Logan.
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, UKZN, March 23 to 26pm, 7.30pm; March 27, 3pm. The show runs for 2 hours and tickets are R65 from Computicket. Tel: 031 260 1142. Email [email protected]