Dance Experience


2003 ‘Junction’ – Jazzart’s company season entitled, Spring Season.

2004 Alfred Hinkel’s ‘Bolero’ at the FNB Dance Umbrella.

2005 & 2006  ‘Guardian of the Flame’ Sibongile Khumalo, Janine Neethling, Tsepo Mngoma, Tandile Mandela, Savitri Naidoo, Stella Magaba, Neo Muyanga, Tina Schouw and Heather Mac

2003, 2004 & 2005 ‘Rain in a Dead Man’s Footprint’ - 6th collaboration between Magnet Theatre and Jazzart Dance Theatre. This re-worked production drew from research done and skills developed on a number of Jazzart and Magnet’s 1995 production of The Sun, the Moon & the Knife was based on Return of the Moon : versions of the /Xam poems by Stephen Watson, translated from the Bleek and Lloyd collection.
2005 ‘Into the Lion’s Den’ - An African fable, encompassing a kaleidoscope of bushveld animals, told in the spectacular setting of the Lion’s Den at The Old Zoo.
2007 ‘Cargo’ - The most recent collaboration between Jazzart and Magnet Theatre production, uses performance to re-imagine the archive of slavery at the Cape and to bring it to the attention of a wider audience, while linking the past to our present reality. Tis production premiered at Spier in March that year, and later went on to appear at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival, the Baxter Theatre and at the Artscape Theatre.

2007 & 2008: Baxter Dance Festival. ‘Stories About:’ A dynamic male duet  plus a doorframe, choreographed by Levern Botha, explores the textures created when individuals with separate lives attempt to exist in symbiosis and the relationships we have punctuate and accentuate our lives and often disrupt and shift us to our very core. 

2008   : “I Am Cinnamon” was an exploration of dance rituals ancient and contemporary. Featuring the winner of kykNET’s DANS DANS DANS, Henk Opperman from Bloemfontein, and Yarisha Singh the zesty from CT.

2008   : “ Gatherings”  Under the direction of Ina Wiechterich, this one hour performance in Artscape’s Theatre was a raving success.


Other:
Have also worked with choreographers such as Ananda  Fuchs, Adele Blank, Christopher Kindo, Sbonakaliso Ndaba, Gregory Maqoma and performed in other various Dance Festivals such as the Darling Kamerkunste Fees, KKNK, Vredendal. Dorp to Dorp SABC 2 Tour around Gauteng and performed in various other corporates. Was also apart of Remix Dance Company.