Abdou N'Gom sits before a mirror in a tiny pool of light. He begins to cover his face with a thick white paste and strips of gauze that look as if it will choke him, and there is both violence and tenderness in the gesture.
01 September 2011
‘Home? Where is home?'
Julia Wilson
Abdou N'Gom sits before a mirror in a tiny pool of light. He begins to cover his face with a thick white paste and strips of gauze that look as if it will choke him, and there is both violence and tenderness in the gesture.
Abdou N'Gom sits before a mirror in a tiny pool of light. He begins to cover his face with a thick white paste and strips of gauze that look as if it will choke him, and there is both violence and tenderness in the gesture.
Remembrances of Savaged Bones We Dance On
JOMBA! 31 August 2011
Opening Night Speech of the 13th JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience by founding artistic director Lliane Loots.
I want to take this opportunity tonight to invoke some of the words and thinking of an African philosopher who has been intimately involved in shaping my own personal and on-going consciousness around being an African and a South African; about being an artist, choreographer and at all times an advocate for Earth justice.
30 August 2011
JOMBA! 2011 PROGRAMME DAILY SCHEDULE
JOMBA! 2011 PROGRAMME DAILY SCHEDULE
Download Programme PDF / View free workshop schedule / Ticketing Info
Full programme on Blog:
Download Programme PDF / View free workshop schedule / Ticketing Info
Full programme on Blog:
JOMBA! City lights Up the Night Friday 2 Sept - An Art Street Party of the Year
Press release: 29 August
JOMBA! City lights Up the Night
JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience presents what promises to be Durban’s art street party of the year this Friday at 7pm.
Delving head first into a site-specific encounter with the city centre, JOMBA! City is an amalgamation of dance, music, art, installations, lights, sound, film, and one or two VERY happening DJ’s.
JOMBA! City lights Up the Night
JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience presents what promises to be Durban’s art street party of the year this Friday at 7pm.
Delving head first into a site-specific encounter with the city centre, JOMBA! City is an amalgamation of dance, music, art, installations, lights, sound, film, and one or two VERY happening DJ’s.
29 August 2011
EXCITING DANCE PROGRAMME AT JOMBA! 2011
EXCITING DANCE PROGRAMME AT JOMBA! 2011
The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts and its celebrated annual contemporary dance platform, JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience, invites dance-lovers to explore this year’s 11 day festival which opens on 31 August and runs until 11 September. JOMBA! now in its 13th year, and supported by the National Lottery Distribution Fund, has dance offerings which encompass the very best of local and international dancers and dance companies. (full programme on www.cca.ukzn.ac.za)
The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts and its celebrated annual contemporary dance platform, JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience, invites dance-lovers to explore this year’s 11 day festival which opens on 31 August and runs until 11 September. JOMBA! now in its 13th year, and supported by the National Lottery Distribution Fund, has dance offerings which encompass the very best of local and international dancers and dance companies. (full programme on www.cca.ukzn.ac.za)
28 August 2011
Special Screening of Wim Wenders film PINA
Special Screening of Wim Wenders film PINA
An exciting prelude to the 13th JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience, organised by the Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal) with principal funding from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, is the one-off screening of the feature-length dance film PINA. Directed by legendary German filmmaker Wim Wenders, PINA is a tribute to late choreographer-dancer, Pina Bausch, and has drawn exceptional attendances in Europe.
Wenders takes the audience on a sensual, visually dazzling journey of thrilling dance. Following the dancers of the renowned Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch ensemble out of the theatre into the city and surrounding areas of Wuppertal – the place which was home and centre for Pina Bausch’s creativity - Wenders captures the essence and magic that is encapsulated in Bausch’s art. A keen cinema experimentalist, Wenders has made this film in 3D, saying “3D is a perfect medium to portray the multi-dimensional movement of dance”.
09 August 2011
13TH JOMBA! CONTEMPORARY DANCE EXPERIENCE 2011
JOMBA! DANCE EXPERIENCE booklet - as JPG images -- pdf available on
www.cca.ukzn.ac.za
15 September 2010
TAKING CHANCES/MAKING CHOICES
TAKING CHANCES/MAKING CHOICES
The 2010 JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience has been a festival of collaborations. Foofwa d’ Imobilite’s The Making of Spectacles was a different and exciting collaboration with the audience in the selective creation of the dance-piece, influenced by Merce Cunningham’s ‘chance’ theory, using a democratic voting system rather than flipping a coin.
14 September 2010
ENTERING A FOREIGN LAND
ENTERING A FOREIGN LAND
Lisa Sterne
The transposition of a dance work from the rehearsal space to the stage is always interesting and often a magical process.
Lisa Sterne
The transposition of a dance work from the rehearsal space to the stage is always interesting and often a magical process.
10 September 2010
De-sacralising’ Spectacle
De-sacralising’ Spectacle
Samantha Daly
Last evening JOMBA! hosted Swiss choreographer, Foofwa d’Imobilité with his The Making of Spectacles (2008) . It directly involves the audience in the creation of the performance, which, Foofwa explains, serves as a way “to look at the psychology of spectator expectations, aesthetic desires, and participation in the making of a work of art... [And] ‘De-sacralising’ the grandeur of the spectacle”.
Samantha Daly
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| Burkinabé Filibert Tologo in “The Making of Spectacles” by Swiss choreographer Foofwa d'Imobilité Picture by Cedric Vincensini |
Democratic Dance Spectacle
Democratic Dance Spectacle
Chris Tobo
Last night I entered the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre to see “The Making of Spectacles”, by Swiss choreographer Foofwa d'Imobilité.
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Chris Tobo
Last night I entered the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre to see “The Making of Spectacles”, by Swiss choreographer Foofwa d'Imobilité.
Making more than just a spectacle
Making more than just a spectacle
Yeshica Naidoo
Foofwa d’Imobilité, born Frédéric Gafner, took the conventions of dance theatre and the notion of the fourth wall and smashed them to smithereens last night in his “The Making of Spectacles”.
Yeshica Naidoo
Foofwa d’Imobilité, born Frédéric Gafner, took the conventions of dance theatre and the notion of the fourth wall and smashed them to smithereens last night in his “The Making of Spectacles”.
DEMOCRACY CAN BE TRICKY
DEMOCRACY CAN BE TRICKY
Sli Hlengwa
The JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience really switched gears last night as it was turned on its head last by Foofwa d’ Imobilite’.
Sli Hlengwa
The JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience really switched gears last night as it was turned on its head last by Foofwa d’ Imobilite’.
Breaking and, making a spectacle, of spectacles.
Breaking and, making a spectacle, of spectacles.
Lisa Sterne
“The Making of Spectacles” by the Swiss Foofwa d’ Imobilite dance company is aimed at being a collaborative process between the audience and the performers.
Lisa Sterne
“The Making of Spectacles” by the Swiss Foofwa d’ Imobilite dance company is aimed at being a collaborative process between the audience and the performers.
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