Dance UCT 2021

Title

Dance UCT 2021

Department

Dance

Genre

Dance

Production Type

Advanced Diploma Student Project
Third Year Student Production

Description

The challenges of COVID that started in March 2020 have spilled over into 2021, and the final year students and staff have remained resolute and determined throughout. This tenacity and resilience makes us very proud. The works in our programme are emblematic of our contemporary lives - buoyant in a sea of difficulties and possibilities.

ACT ONE: Of Loss & Memories, performed by CTDPS Advanced Diploma Dance Students and directed by Lisa Wilson explores individual journeys with losing a loved one. The sound…the space… the silence. Memories of what was and what could be encircle the open space left by death.

ACT TWO: Blacklisted, performed by CTDPS 3rd Year Dance Students and directed by Mhlanguli George with Assistant Director & Choreographer: Maxwell Xolani Rani.
Blacklisted is an interweaving of a series of narratives surrounding the impact of familial financial obligation placed upon the youth. Although each facet of the work follows a different character’s journey and struggles, the commonality shared by all is that "Black tax” costs each and every one of them so much more than money. Blacklisted explores themes of internal conflict, familial expectation and acceptance, fractured marriage and so much more…

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Year Created

2021

Opening Date

28 October 2021

Closing Date

29 October 2021

Start Time

19h00

Performance Venue

Geographic Location of Performance

Cape Town

Producer

CTDPS

Director

Mhlanguli George

Assistant Director

Choreographer

Luke de Kock
Marlin Zoutman
Bjorn Cupido
Celeste Botha
Thandeka Kakaza

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Of Loss & Memories TheaterEvent
Blacklisted TheaterEvent