Taking dance to the city

SIWELA Sonke Dance Theatre presents Cityscapes Re-routed, a public art series featuring dance and public spaces in the city of Durban.

The dancers will perform on Saturday 20 June at 2pm at the Workshop Shopping Centre amphitheatre, on Saturday 4 July at 2pm at the Workshop Shopping Centre, above Pick n Pay, then on to the City Hall, and on Saturday 11 July at 2pm at the Old Pump House, North Beach.

Choreographed by Jay Pather and the Siwela Sonke Company, Cityscapes is an edgy combination of contemporary performance, dance and traditional imagery which breathes life into the architecture and public spaces of Durban, and takes the form of four separate one-off free public site-specific works.

Originally conceived for Durban in 2002, Cityscapes introduced site specific dance performances to various spaces throughout the city, including the Albany Hotel, 320 West Street, Musgrave Mall and Durban’s North Beach. The work then opened the FNB Dance Umbrella in Johannesburg in 2003, taking over the Carlton Centre, Devonshire Hotel, Sandton Square and The Oriental Plaza.

Since then various permutations of Cityscapes have been performed in Copenhagen, New York and Cape Town.