P3 Dance 2020

Title

P3 Dance 2020

Department

Dance

Genre

Ballet
Contemporary

Production Type

Third Year Student Production

Description

The P3 Studiowork course at the 3rd year level for the Performance stream students extends the skills sets acquired in previous / foundation years. The course has looked at technical development, body conditioning ( including strength and control), personal interpretation and how to develop an increased awareness of notions of repertoire from various dance genres. Once again we set out to strengthen our technical expertise as dancers/performers through our investigation and engagement in a variety of dance forms and key themes including loss, betrayal, hope and renewal.

In 2020, inspite of great challenges that we all experienced, the students and teaching staff have continued to work hard at developing our competences through a firm engagement in contemporary dance and classical ballet. Thank you to our dedicated teachers Robin Van Wyk and Louise Coetzer for their generosity. And, to Abeeda Medell and Maxwell Rani earlier this year. Some of our work was undertaken online and we have battled through the experiences of limited contact/face to face teaching given the COVID 19 regulations and national state of disaster. In spite of COVID 19, we have persevered, learning to work even more independently and how to become more innovative and creative especially in our use of screen dance/ dance on film. We have embraced the ‘new normal’ even as we explored our final theme: post-modernist ideas of fracture, layering, change and de-constructivism for our performance work ( even our title has changed from ‘Grape to Bathilde to ..unknown landscape’). Some of you will recognize hints, clues and other subtle references to iconic concert theatre dance works. We know that you will nevertheless be enveloped in our poetic imaginings.

As young artists we continue to reply to all that is happening around us. We hope you will also join in on our enquiring conversation through dance and the performing body.

Year Created

2020

Opening Date

25 November 2020

Closing Date

26 November 2020

Producer

CTDPS

Choreographer

Amy Greener
Wendy Thoane
Nicki Rinquest
Katherine Jones
Bethany McLachlan-Evans

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