Theatre Arts, Observatory, Cape Town, 23rd November – 7th December 2024
See also:
https://www.instagram.com/musicdance021/
https://www.facebook.com/MD021CapeTown
https://theatrearts.co.za/show/musicdance_24
All artists taking part in MusicDance performance residency 2024
Vintani Nafassi ( African percussions, mbira, adungu,movement), Coila-Leah Enderstein (piano,) Tamara Ringas (electronics) ,Sumalgy Nuro ( indigenous instruments, electronics, movement), Gemma Paton (voice, guitar, movement), Jonathan Cumming (bass guitar, electronics, movement), Tara Love (shamanic instruments and voice), Nicolle Vieira (text and movement), Andi Colombo (text and movement), Robin Ferreira, Kayla van der Merwe, Katie Hodson, Ashraf Vahed, Laëtitia Galvaire, Quanita Allie, Evan Joseph, Elan van Bijlon, Vincent Rae, Joy, Mindy Phung, Kyle Linde Vermeulen, Thimna Ndwe, Francesca Annenberg, Yanna Romano, Olivia Gardy, Selah Joy, Thalia Laric, Manuela Lucia Tessi, Leilah Kirsten (movement)
Directed by Leilah Kirsten and Manuela Lucia Tessi. Collaborators team: Vintani Nafassi, Coila-Leah Enderstein, Tamara Ringas , Sumalgy Nuro, Nicolle Vieira, Thalia Laric
Lighting design by Frans Mandilakhe Zunguze
Thanks to Theatre Arts and Caroline Calburn for supporting the project since 2018
Line ups for the performances will be updated in FB events
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MusicDance Cape Town is a performance residency for dancers and musicians, supported by Theatre Arts since 2018.
Now in its seventh year, the project draws together artists from diverse genres and backgrounds. The emphasis of the work is interdisciplinary and real-time composition. Audiences are invited to witness the forging of exciting new collaborations and unique expressions in music and dance performance.
MusicDance was spearheaded by dancers Manuela Lucia Tessi and Thalia Laric in 2018. This year the project will be co-directed by dancers Leilah Kirsten and Manuela Lucia Tessi in collaboration with the core team of musicians and dancers: Coila-Leah Enderstein , Garth Erasmus , Vintani Nafassi, Sumalgy Nuro, Tamara Ringas, Nicolle Vieira, Thalia Laric a.o.
The project has been joined since the beginning by photographer Lindsey Appolis, and lighting designer Frans Mandilakhe Zunguze.
The performance residency consists of an intensive period of workshops in which the participants are guided by the facilitating artists to practise the tools of interdisciplinary and real-time composition. The workshops lead towards the creation of performances.
Each performance consists of a programme of different short compositions of sound and movement, with a different constellation (grouping) of musicians and dancers. All the compositions are created in the moment, based on real-time artistic choices in movement, sound, light and presence.
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