Dance Honours | Taboo

Title

Dance Honours | Taboo

Department

Dance

Production Type

Honours Student Production

Description

The CTDPS Honours students present as part of their Honours Dance course an articulation of their practice as research work entitled Taboo: To drag, worship and sanitise hip hop on Friday 27 November at 7.30pm. at the Dance Studio Theatre, UCT Lower campus.

Four very different students have worked under the challenging condition of lockdown during the Covid 19 Pandemic and have come up with brave dance works as they continued to experiment and explore their central critical question. The four, short works of 20 minutes each are:

Entitled Connected with choreography by Durban based Jaime Montgomery, Jaime responded to my question on her artistic and research process by noting, “When COVID and lockdown happened I turned to the internet to find online dance classes. There was so much ballet, but other forms and styles of dance seemed absent. Is it possible to establish an emotional or intimate connection in the online the online space?”.

Choreographer, Michail Labans added that his work entitled: Fantasia has nothing to do with Disney or waltzing hippopotamus. He remarked, “Ja Julle moffies! I’ve heard so many words to describe Drag queens of Cape Town but who knows what their lives are really like. Just big hairdos and ‘hakke’. Nancy! Kom ek wys julle”. The poignant work navigates the world of drag artists who Michail claims are underrepresented in dance scholarship.

Entitled: The Emancipation by choreographer Chantal de Wee probes the experiences of women dancers wanting to express themselves in praise and worship. Chantal has observed the patriarchal hegemonies in liturgical dance and especially in the context of the Northern suburbs, Cape Town. She looked forward to the feedback her sensitive work will generate.

Finally, entitled “I’m stuck between hip hop education and hip-hop pedagogy!” Robyn Settler is hopeful that audience will support her call for greater inclusion of urban street dance forms in universities countrywide. Robyn’s passion for the form explodes onto the stage and she has worked hard to teach and build confidence in her dancers some of whom are new to the form.

Taboo… has one performance only on Friday 27 November and limited seating.

Please note a maximum of 25 persons, all of whom must meet all UCT COVID protocols, will be allowed entry to the venue.

Year Created

2020

Opening Date

27 November 2020

Closing Date

27 November 2020

Start Time

19h30

Performance Venue

Dance Studio Theatre

Geographic Location of Performance

Cape Town

Producer

CTDPS

Director

Choreographer

Jaime Montgomery
Michail Labans
Chantal de Wee
Robyn Settler

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