August 25, 2005
By Tammy O'Reilly
THERE will be dance every day at this year's Arts Alive International Festival.
Local and international dancers will perform under one umbrella for the festival, which runs from Thursday, 1 September to Sunday, 4 September.
The dance programme opens with a performance conceived and choreographed by one of the country's most respected choreographers, PJ Sabbagha. Performed by local dancers, Still Here looks back over the past 10 years, and how people have survived love, loss, illness and other hardships.
Part three of a trilogy by Gregory Maqoma, titled Beautiful Us, is next. It is on at the Dance Factory in Newtown on Friday, 2 September at 8pm.
According to a statement from Arts Alive, in this piece "Maqoma looks at the beauty of human beings as juxtaposed with the beauty of things and the seasons that contribute to the wholesomeness of the universe".
Senegalese dance company Janti-B performs Fagaala at the Dance Factory on Saturday and Sunday. It is choreographed by Japan's Kota Yamasaki and Senegal's Germaine Acogny, who is considered the mother of contemporary African dance.
Fagaala promises to be deeply moving as it recounts the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and expresses through dance the absurdity and tragedy of that time. Viewed from the perspective of the survivors, the dance looks at how they are dealing with the aftermath.
Acogny also hosts a free, five-day dance workshop in Bapedi Hall in Soweto, from Monday, September 5. Dancers who are interested in attending should contact Nonku on 011 482 4140.
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