{"id":546,"date":"2023-04-20T08:36:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T08:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uj.ac.za\/artsdev\/?p=546"},"modified":"2023-01-18T08:39:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T08:39:29","slug":"the-pandemic-project-fana-tshabalala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uj.ac.za\/artsdev\/the-pandemic-project-fana-tshabalala\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pandemic Project :: Fana Tshabalala"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Today\u2019s featured artist for the UJ Arts &amp; Culture\u2019s \u2018<b>The Pandemic<\/b>\u2019 project, is South African multi-award-winning dancer, choreographer and co-founder of Broken Borders Art Project, Fana Tshabalala.<\/p>\n<p>The work is inspired by the UJ Choir\u2019s rendition of Sedjedo by Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo arranged by Sabelo Mthembu and featured on\u00a0<b>When the Earth Stands Still<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy piece\u00a0<b>\u2018Confined by Numbers\u2019<\/b>\u00a0is the exploration of the unstable mental state. The constant changes in its surrounding affect its ability to be independent. The only way to survive, is to re-imagine and re-create the context of every moment and experience\u201d, says Fana Tshabalala.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"wpb_video_widget wpb_content_element vc_clearfix   vc_video-aspect-ratio-169 vc_video-el-width-100 vc_video-align-left\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_video_wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Pandemic Project :: Fana Tshabalala\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-xvZ9CMSlLk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p><b>About Fana Tshabalala<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Fana Tshabalala is the 2013 Standard Bank Young Artist Award recipient for Dance. The 2014 Visas for Creation recipient and the 2018 Black Excellence Award winner in Chicago Illinois. Tshabalala is also the former associate artistic director for the Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative.<\/p>\n<p>Tshabalala has been choreographing and performing his work locally and internationally, one of his works titled \u201cBetween\u201d was part of Dance Dialogue Africa. \u201cBetween\u201d toured Germany and later toured Africa reaching 12 countries and 14 cities. He was also part of the choreographic workshop that took place in South Africa where he worked with dancers from Ballet Geneva and other South African choreographers.<\/p>\n<p>In early 2015, he worked with Nanziwe Mzuzu a writer from Cape Town on a TV documentary commissioned by ETV, which was inspired by his latest solo titled \u201cMan\u201d. He has also worked with children from the Kliptown Youth Programme on two dance movies that became a runner up for a short film competition in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, he was awarded a Mellon artistic residency where he choreographed a full-length work for Flat Foot Dance Company and worked on his solo titled \u201cZann\u201d. Fana Tshabalala is currently the co-founder and artistic director for Broken borders Art Project.<\/p>\n<p>#UJPandemic<\/p>\n<p>#CloseToHeART<\/p>\n<p>#UJChoir<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Today\u2019s featured artist for the UJ Arts &amp; Culture\u2019s \u2018The Pandemic\u2019 project, is South African multi-award-winning dancer, choreographer and co-founder of Broken Borders Art Project, Fana Tshabalala.<\/p>\n<p>The work is inspired<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uj.ac.za\/artsdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uj.ac.za\/artsdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uj.ac.za\/artsdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uj.ac.za\/artsdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uj.ac.za\/artsdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uj.ac.za\/artsdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/web.uj.ac.za\/artsdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uj.ac.za\/artsdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uj.ac.za\/artsdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uj.ac.za\/artsdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uj.ac.za\/artsdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}