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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
cellist Mietze Dill
AMY BEACH

Great art has no gender: Female composers take centre stage in Wakkerstroom

Overlooked women composers are finally given their due as Wakkerstroom’s 2026 festival spotlights music long sidelined by history and patriarchy

  • Melody Emmett
5 min read