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Concept, Design, Choreographer & Director: Mamela Nyamza, 2018 Featured Artist
PHUMA-LANGA is a call for a renewed social cohesion through artistic meaningful themes, mostly derived from the Ndebele culture, but also running across all the experiences derived from the history of South Africa.
Featured Artists: Schalk Bezuidenhout, Loyiso Madinga
2018 Standard Bank Ovation Award Winner
Featured Artists: Stuart Lightbody
Company: Stuart Lightbody
A fascinating performance of sleight of hand magic from the winner of the Theatre Award at the Fringe World Festival in Australia (2018). In celebration of his 10th year at the National Arts Festival, Stuart Lightbody shares some impossible wonders from his adventures around the world. You won’t believe your eyes!
Cast: Shannon Leibach, Joel Leonard
Company: Koalaty Productions
Company: ReRouted Dance Theatre
STAGED SHOWCASE
TRACKS was part of the STAGED SHOWCASE. An original Wits Theatre So Solo production. Performer: Maude Sandheim | Director: Nicola Pilkington | Written by: Maude Sandheim and Nicola Pilkington
Silkworm / Photo: Jan Potgieter
2018 Standard Bank Ovation Award Winner
Featured Artists: Taryn Bennett
Company: Contagious
Jenine Collocott and Taryn Bennett, the women behind The Snow Goose, have created a solo show. Told with disarming charm and theatrical ingenuity, SILKWORM is the life story of a secretive and socially challenged woman, whose astonishing inner world is bursting to make an appearance in her real life.
2018 Standard Bank Ovation Award Winner
Company: Kate Pinchuck in collaboration with The Furies
She’s a bad bitch with snakes for hair and a glance which turns men to stone, but literally only gets two lines in most Greek mythology textbooks and her Wikipedia needs a serious update. Medusa feels like she deserves a little more stage time, so we’re giving it to her.
We invited some of the world’s top street artists to join us in Makhanda. They performed every day of the Festival, joined by some emerging and exciting new South African talent on the Amazing Stages at the Standard Bank Village Green Fair.
International artists included DYNAMIKE (Canada), who juggles chainsaws while riding a 3-metre unicycle and JACKIE CHAN CHAN (Japan), who presents a circus comedy show with high-level stunts and lots of jokes, music and dancing.
2018 Standard Bank Ovation Award Winner
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Cast: Lea Vivier, Sandisile Dlangalala, Kate Pinchuck | Director: Laine Butler
Written By: Meyrick Tree | Music Composed By: Noah Bamberger