Dance Some More showcases development dancers
Don't miss an afternoon of dance featuring Flatfoot Dance Company's work with development dancers.
APART from a huge portfolio of professional dance theatre work, Flatfoot’s commitment to growing dance in KwaZulu-Natal sees the company offering dance development projects and youth dance development programmes to more than 800 youth each year.
Dance Some More 2013 is the culmination concert of the past year’s dance training and development, and thanks to the support of the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, an opportunity for Flatfoot’s young dancers to perform in a professional theatre situation. Dancers from Flatfoot’s Umlazi, Newlands East, Waterloo, Kenneth Gardens, Clermont and KwaMashu based programmes will take the stage. There will also be a special performance from the mixed ability/integrated dance programme run in collaboration with the Open Air School. Choreography will be by the 6 resident Flatfoot dancers, Jabu Siphika, Julia Wilson, Thobile Maphanga, Sifiso Khumalo, Sifiso Majola and Tshediso Kabulu.
The afternoon’s dance showcase will also include two very special works. The first is by their ADD (Advanced Dance Development) Flatfoot programme. Over 2013 through the ADD programme 15 of the older youth working within Flatfoot’s township programmes were selected and given additional intensive dance training to ready them for careers as professional dancers. They will perform “Revealing Me” choreographed by Jabu Siphika.
Flatfoot Training Company will perform Lliane Loots’s “Sweet Bach Suite”. This dance work is a communal celebration of not only J.S. Bach’s beautiful cello suites but has been choreographed to challenge these young adult emerging dancers and allow them the opportunity to rise up to the stamina and technical training needed to sustain a full-length dance theatre work.
The Flatfoot family invites the public to an afternoon that celebrates Durban’s up and coming talent and honours the transformative power of dance!
Dance Some More takes place at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on Saturday 26 October at 2pm. Tickets are R20 each and may be purchased up to one hour before the show at the Elizabeth Sneddon box office. For enquiries contact 082 875 6065.
