Eco showcase at Durban Botanic Gardens
Flatfoot Dance Company is teaming up with the Durban Botanic Gardens Trust to present a showcase centred on ecology.
FLATFOOT Dance Company in association with the Durban Botanic Gardens Trust will present The Cleansing at the Botanic Gardens from April 20 until April 24 at 6 pm each evening.
The show’s artistic director, Lliane Loots said: “The performance journeys into the heartland of earth issues using this performance moment to negotiate the true meaning of ecology and the connectedness of human existence to all existence.”
“What better site than Durban’s Botanic Gardens to open up this exploration of self to the natural world? In this moving dance work, the Botanic Gardens – itself bearing the scars of a colonial heritage – are transformed into a site of continued natural beauty and potential transformations,” said Loots.
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According to Loots, the showcase is a moving and powerful choreo-poetry that aims to subtly carry its audience to places of deep knowing and awareness.
“The Cleansing is a ritual for us humans, and for the Earth – a cultural enactment of the sacred bond between the dancers and the ground they move on as they ‘cleanse’ themselves ready for a deeper connection to one another and to the Earth,” she said.
This site-responsive dance work is jointly created by Lliane Loots, Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Mthoko Mkhwanazi, Sbonga Ndlovu, Siseko Duba, and Ndumiso Dube.
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Join Flatfoot Dance Company in the lush surroundings of Durban’s iconic Botanic Gardens that allow you to safely watch this unique dance company.
Loots says bring your own picnic, a glass of wine, and a blanket to sit on. Doors open at 17:30 pm, the show starts at 18:00 pm and the show is one hour.
Tickets are R100 per person and to book your ticket contact flafootdancecompany@gmail.com.
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