Mozambique\u2019s first contemporary dance company, CulturArte, marks their 20th year anniversary with a powerful tour of South Africa, Madagascar and Mozambique in June and July 2018. As a leading institution for dance in Mozambique and founded by internationally renowned choreographer and dancer Panaibra Gabriel Canda, CulturArte provides support for new creations and performances, artistic development and training programmes for dance projects and Southern African artists.<\/p>\n
Named as one of the world\u2019s 30 New Promises for the Future of Dance, Canda will show his work, Time and Space: The Marrabenta Solos, at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival, East London\u2019s The Guild Theatre and Johannesburg\u2019s UJ Theatre. The tour forms part of The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia\u2019s Winter Programme celebrating 20 years in South Africa, and includes a collaborative double bill by acclaimed Swiss choreographer Thomas Hauert, whose company ZOO, also joins hands in celebrating their own 20th year milestone in 2018.<\/p>\n
The Marrabenta Solos journeys through Mozambique\u2019s complex history, a feature carried in the Marrabenta, a musical form born in the 1950s from a mix of Mozambican and European influences. The enduring 60 minute dance solo explores a crisis of identity, and deconstructs cultural representations of a \u201cpure\u201d African body, in particular, the Mozambican body. Accompanied by guitarist, Jorge Domingos, Canda dances and speaks about today\u2019s African body: a post-colonial, plural body that has absorbed the ideals of nationalism, modernity, socialism and freedom of expression.<\/p>\n
Thomas Hauert\u2019s energetic collaboration H\u00e1 mais (meaning \u201cThere\u2019s more\u201d) was created with 5 Mozambique dancers, who represent the cream of Mozambique\u2019s contemporary dance scene. With choreographic phrases modified by the interaction with time, movement and space, audiences are treated to dynamic improvisation performed with staggering virtuosity alongside musical passages by Stravinsky.<\/p>\n
As part of a double bill for audiences in Maputo and Grahamstown and alongside Hauert\u2019s work, Panaibra Canda presents his creation Mafalala. Inspired by Mozambican society and the suburbs of Maputo, this reflective piece with four dancers and a saxophonist, weaves through Maputo\u2019s post-colonial tension with a distinct movement vocabulary expressed through the city\u2019s unique mixture of cultures, people, ways of living and collective memory.<\/p>\n
New York Times: \u201cRecombining identities to define a self \u2026 Mr. Canda is a compelling dancer, rhythmically cogent with stamping feet and eloquent with curving arms and a swayed back\u201d<\/p>\n
The tour is supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.<\/p>\n
Media are invited to experience the performances.<\/p>\n
TOUR<\/p>\n
Maputo<\/p>\n
Time & Space: The Marrabenta Solos<\/p>\n
Date: 29 June at 20h30<\/p>\n
H\u00e0 Mais & Mafalala a double-bill<\/p>\n
Date: 28 June at 20h30<\/p>\n
Venue: Centre Culturel Franco-Mozambicain (CCFM)<\/p>\n
Tickets: https:\/\/www.ccfmoz.com\/<\/p>\n
Grahamstown National Arts Festival<\/p>\n
Time & Space: The Marrabenta Solos<\/p>\n
Date: 03 July at 11h00 and 15h00<\/p>\n
Date: 04 July at 20h00<\/p>\n
H\u00e0 Mais & Mafalala a double-bill<\/p>\n
Date: 04 July at 11h00 and 15h00<\/p>\n
Date: 05 July at 18h00<\/p>\n
Venue: Rhodes Theatre<\/p>\n
Price: R80<\/p>\n
Tickets: https:\/\/www.nationalartsfestival.co.za\/events\/marrabenta-solos-swiss\/ and<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.nationalartsfestival.co.za\/events\/mafala-ha-mais-swiss\/<\/p>\n
East London<\/p>\n
Time & Space: The Marrabenta Solos<\/p>\n
Venue: The Guild Theatre<\/p>\n
Date: 7 July<\/p>\n
Tickets: via Computicket<\/p>\n
Johannesburg<\/p>\n
Time & Space: The Marrabenta Solo<\/p>\n
Venue: University of Johannesburg, UJ Theatre, Kingsway Campus<\/p>\n
Date: 13 & 14 July at 19H30<\/p>\n
www.uj.ac.za\/arts<\/p>\n
Antananarivo<\/p>\n
Time & Space: The Marrabenta Solos<\/p>\n
Venue: Is\u2019art gallery<\/p>\n
Date: 19 July<\/p>\n
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