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Igshaan Adams is this year’s Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art. For this inaugural exhibition of WHEN DUST SETTLES, Adams presents an eclectic and multi-sensory large-scale installation, bringing together aspects of sculpture, textiles, found objects, furniture and performance to create an immersive environment in the Monument’s Gallery in the Round.
Director: Alby Michaels | Written By: Reza de Wet | Company: UJ Arts & Culture Faculty of Art | Cast: Sussie Cilliers – Liezl de Kok, Frikkie Cilliers – Zak Hendricks, Mr Grové – Mpho Osei-Tutu, Alina – Olive Strachan
After a year-long interdisciplinary process, UJ Arts & Culture Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA) presents Reza de Wet’s iconic African Gothic (translation of Diepe Grond).
All images: Jan Potgieter/http://www.stagefocus.co.za
Choreographer: Mamela Nyamza | Featured Artists: Mamela Nyamza, Amkele Mandla | Company: Mamela Nyamza
This year’s Featured Artist Mamela Nyamza reflects on her life as a mother and as an artist in her work HATCHED, an autobiographical work that seeks to convey the deeply personal and challenging issues of culture, tradition and a woman’s evolving sexuality within the customary rites and rituals of marriage. It grapples with questions of identity, highlighted by the dualities of her life – a mother and a performer; a South African and a dancer. All photos: Jan Potgieter
Asko|Schönberg, Grammy-nominated and the leading ensemble for new music based in the Netherlands, takes a plunge into the exciting and diverse world of 20th century musical works. A show, a lecture, a performance, a conversation. Under the guidance of a ringmaster, the musicians of Asko|Schönberg take the audience on a search for notes.
Director: Gopala Davies | Featured Artists: Mpho Osei-Tutu, Liezl De Kock, Zak Hendrikz and Alby Michaels | Company: UJ Arts & Culture (a division of FADA) in association with the National Arts Festival | Written by: Greg MacArthur
Presented as a gallery installation or tableaux vivant, A CITY is an intimate, personal study of four artists/friends who tell the story of a famous friend who died under mysterious circumstances, and how he transformed them.
Trailblazing dancer and choreographer Mamela Nyamza is this year’s Featured Artist, recognising her contribution to the South African cultural narrative. She has been invited to bring multiple works to the Festival.
Thandi Ntuli (Jazz), Jemma Kahn (Theatre), Musa Hlatshwayo (Dance), Igsaan Adams (Visual Art), Guy Buttery (Music) and Chuma Sopotela (Peformance Art) are this year’s winners of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award.
put your heart under your feet… and walk / To Elu is Steven Cohen’s intense meditation on loss, grief and absence, following the death of Elu, his partner and artistic collaborator.
The Mothertongue Project’s WALK is a South African response focused on the gang-rape and murder of South African teenager Anene Booysen.
WARRIORS, COMRADES AND VOLKSTAAT KOMMANDOS is a retrospective of work by South African photojournalist TJ Lemon.
DOGHOUSE from Danish company Makropol invites a limited number of people to wear VR headsets and attend a virtual dinner party.