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World-class: Scene from 'e.ID: a Fugue' . . . balanced precariously on the tips of their toes. Photos: Oscar O'Ryan
CONTEMPORARY DANCE

Darkroom Contemporary uses dance to examine an existential threat

Darkroom Contemporary Dance Theatre's latest production, e.ID: A Fugue, choreographed by Louise Coetzer, explores artificial intelligence, mortality, and the fragile state of…

  • Keith Bain
8 min read
Deconstructed ballet: Hatched Ensemble speaks to anyone who has felt conflicted about their own identity and where they belong in the status quo. Photo: Val Adamson
AFRICAN PERFORMANCE ART

Mamela Nyamza’s global triumph, ‘Hatched Ensemble’, comes home for two nights only

Internationally celebrated dancer Mamela Nyamza returns home with two powerful productions interrogating identity, colonial legacies and belonging through bold, deconstructed…

  • Unathi Kondile
5 min read
Dance is music: Lighting by Oliver Hauser and set design by Willy Cesar foreground space, line and form. Everything, Maqoma says, is architectural. Photo: Arthur Dlamini
AFRICAN PERFORMANCE

Gregory Maqoma’s ‘Genesis’ is not an ending

The renowned choreographer returns to the Baxter not as performer but architect, with Genesis, a daring meditation on beginnings, endings and Black consciousness

  • Lesego Chepape
7 min read
Photos: Mark Wessels
AFRICAN DANCE

Asanda Ruda’s body of healing

Melding protest, lyricism and ancestral tradition, Asanda Ruda’s Kemet is a visceral journey of emancipation, healing and artistic defiance

  • Keith Bain
8 min read
ADELE BLANK

Diary: Jazz in the Lights, Dance for all, Street art in Maboneng

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  • Kibo Ngowi
2 min read
Louise Coetzer’s work autoplay — Africa’s first AI opera — explores the intersection between human creativity and machine learning and where it could lead, with a soundscape featuring Inge Beckmann.
AI OPERA

Dancing with the machine: autoplay and the future of AI-driven art

Louise Coetzer flirted with the enemy to create experimental dance-opera autoplay. But her message is one of resistance

  • Keith Bain
6 min read
Support group: Michelle Rosewall and Rondean Hughes will perform at the Flatfoot Access Festival.
ANDILE YENANA

Diary: A feast of dance, musical blessings from the avant-garde, WGRUV Dance Company opens in Gauteng

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  • Charles Leonard
2 min read