Matthew Krouse
Guest Author
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/ 13 October 2006

Levi’s offers tickets for tests

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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/ 27 September 2006

Rites of the child

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

Gay is just a three-letter word

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

Mother of the dance

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.