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/ 20 October 2006
The interior world of the dancer arrived on stage at this year’s FNB Dance Umbrella, reports Matthew Krouse.
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/ 20 October 2006
A new play is set to review the accepted notion that all political activists endured their sentences with a high-minded celibacy. Matthew Krouse speaks to director Robert Colman.
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/ 17 October 2006
If the opinion at a recent conference on marketing in the arts is anything to go by, we are in for a honeymoon period of increased corporate backing of the arts, writes Matthew Krouse.
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/ 13 October 2006
Levi Strauss’s ongoing HIV youth awareness campaign, ”Red for Life”, has taken a surprising turn with the announcement that it intends giving away tickets to a concert to youngsters who take HIV tests. The tests, at branded Levi’s mobile testing centres, will be situated in public places from October 14.
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/ 13 October 2006
Baroness Coral von Reefenhausen, arguably South Africa’s reigning drag queen, chats to Matthew Krouse.
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/ 13 October 2006
South Africa’s favourite edutainment series returns and is sadder than ever, writes Matthew Krouse.
If the 2003 edition of the National Arts Festival has been about anything, it has been a grand-scale meditation on the subject of home, writes Matthew Krouse.
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/ 27 September 2006
By using non-performers and video art, local dance is making inroads into real life. It has something to do with the way contemporary South African choreographers construct their stories, writes Matthew Krouse who attended the New Dance festival this weekend past.
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/ 25 September 2006
Simm’s new production <i>Fourplay</i> makes some relevant observations about gay South African men across the generations – the younger ones take things for granted while the older understand that freedom of expression is something of a privilege, writes Matthew Krouse.
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/ 19 September 2006
Dance anthropologist, choreographer and the founder of the <i>Moving into Dance Mophatong</i> project, Sylvia “Magogo” Glasser is something of a human monument in the local dance scene. That’s probably why her students have crowned her “granny”, writes Matthew Krouse.