THE UKZN Centre for Creative Arts presents the 27th JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience, a 13-day explosion of world-class contemporary dance, bringing together dancers and dance-makers from South Africa, Spain, France, Réunion, Uganda, Ivory Coast, Germany, and Luxembourg from August 26 to September 7 in Durban.

The theme of this year’s festival is “moving border/lands” as JOMBA! sets out to engage, through curated dance encounters, and with artists and dance makers who battle with, and navigate, the current unfolding socio- and geo-politics of border/lands.

JOMBA! curator and artist director Dr Lliane Loots said, “We have curated a series of artistic encounters that we feel question ideas of border crossings, and have invited dance works that ask us to re-look at borders (real and imagined) as metaphoric and poetic spaces which we are either seeking to cross, or to renegotiate. We want to honour dance makers who bring beauty, humour, pathos, and politics to our stages and hearts.”

Veteran South African dance-maker Sbonakaliso (aka Sbo) Ndaba is honoured as the 2025 JOMBA! Legacy Artist, for her innovative choreographic work that spans over three decades of dance-making in SA and internationally. Sbo and her SboNdaba Dance present In Search of Our Humanity, a masterful new work that takes the audience on an emotional journey through South Africa’s evolution, from the ancient, free-roaming Khoi and San ancestors, to the struggle for unity.

For the full programme go to: https://jomba.ukzn.ac.za/
Tickets are R85 and R65 (concessions and groups) or R390 once-off for a full festival pass.
Booking for the full festival pass can be done via the Webtickets link before individual ticket bookings open.

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