African Storm Soundsystem hosted the third annual Dancehall Queen contest where the women on stage gave Beyoncé a run for her money.
The third instalment of the wildly popular annual Dancehall Queen contest took place last week.
It may still have a small following, but one dance company is determined to bring ballet, with its roots in the Italian Renaissance, to urban SA.
Showing at the Dance Umbrella, Senegalese dancer Germaine Acogny’s latest show re-imagines Africans lost to Europe on feeble, wooden boat trips.
The winner of the coveted Standard Bank Young Artist award for dance will be performing at this year’s National Arts Festival.
VIDEO: Nadine Mckenzie is a dance teacher who is proving that ability lies in the mind, not just the body. She is an M&G 200 Young South African.
From minibus taxis to the Gautrain, the Goethe Institute’s SPINES festival explores public and private spaces in Jo’burg.
Marianne Fassler and Robyn Orlin put the trash into tutus and tiaras.
It is not the first dance craze to ripple through West Africa, but the azonto style even has the Ghana soccer stars showing off their moves.
The continent’s dancers have developed their own ways to speak about global issues.
As dancers warm up for the next Dance Umbrella, arts editor Matthew Krouse asks choreographers what the body in space says about South Africa today.
Tladi has worked on his dancing career since he was 14 years old. Now he’s been chosen by top dancers/choreographers in the world to train and audition in LA.
South Africa and France are set to share cutting-edge artwork in a bilateral exchange spanning two years.
Red Bull took over Bassline in Newtown, Jo’burg to host their second beat battle. Eight crews from around SA competed for the 2012 title and a trip to Brazil.
In<em> Uncles & Angels </em>laughter is not merely a vehicle to lighten the load of the themes.
When we speak of violations against the body, what comes to mind if not rape, murder and brutality?
The buzz surrounding the return of Robyn Orlin’s <i>Daddy, I’ve seen this piece six times before…</i> was unavoidable.
<em>Exit/Exist</em> is based on the life of the legendary Xhosa chief, Maqoma, who played a crucial role in the frontier wars in the Eastern Cape.
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/ 17 February 2012
A piece at this year’s Dance Umbrella interrogates the annual reed dance, in which young virgins are presented before King Goodwill Zwelithini.
Local choreographers tackle sensitive, heart-breaking issues that ordinary South Africans are dealing with every day.
Choreographers are surprising unsuspecting audiences by taking dance performance into new spaces.
Theatre dance is again showing its anarchic
credentials by appropriating local icons.
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/ 9 September 2011
La Ribot’s brand of dance is radical, unpredictable and, above all, steeped in unselfconscious cool.
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/ 8 September 2011
Choreographer La Ribot tells <b>Matthew Krouse</b> how her dance is an extension of, and not a rebellion against, real life.
<i>Dancing with Dada</i> as the start of a large-scale collaboration between someone who can move well and someone who can’t move at all.
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/ 10 September 2010
A sumptuous Indian dance-drama interpretation of <i>Swan Lake</i> cannot be missed.
There’s a rare opportunity to catch one of Ionesco’s strangest plays this weekend.
What to do, where to go and what to see this week.
Dancer Nelisiwe Xaba’s work dares to question
the narrative of our reconciliation, writes Percy Zvomuya.
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/ 17 October 2009
Choreographer Gregory Maqoma began his first US tour this month with his Beautiful Me, a piece that blends ancestral stomping with modern
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/ 25 October 2008
Matthew Krouse talks to David Thatanelo April, executive and artistic director of Moving into Dance Mophatong.
Argentina’s great music comes to life in a new album.
Jon Lusk meets tango’s latest champion.