Wednesday 17 June 2015

Flatfoot Dance Company takes over! Drawing sessions and more!


FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY @ artSPACE durban

For the week 22 - 26 June 2015, Durban’s incomparable FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY will again be resident at artSPACE durban. In a meeting of dancers and fine artists, FLATFOOT will work in artSPACE durban giving local artists an opportunity to paint, draw and create around the dancers as they rehearse, dance and create choreography.  FLATFOOT will continue to work in their normal day routine and will open up their daily work process.

The week will involve session where artists can watch and engage the dancers in their daily rehearsals but there will also be specific session where the dancers will be a little more still to promote portraiture (see schedule below).

The week will culminate in a final performance of FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY in Lliane Loots’s recent and beautifully hard-hitting “days like these” on  Friday the 26th of June at 6.30pm (bar facilities open) and curator Karen Bradtke will select some of the art works generated over the week to put on display in the gallery at the Friday event.

ARTIST COSTS:
·       R100.00 per day
·       R350.00 for the week
·       Wednesday 24th June : special evening portraiture session (5.30 – 7.30pm) = R 100.00

“days like these” is the performance event on Friday 26th June @ 6.30pm - FLATFOOT will re-create (especially for the gallery space) the verbatim dance theatre work that had Durban taking in March 2015. Loots collaborates with award winning filmmaker Karen Logan in a visual film and dance feast that looks at modern day storytelling and the politics of history and memory – a deeply moving encounter with contemporary dance!
 COST: R50.00 (if you have been part of the artist residency, there will be a 50% discount on tickets)


THE WEEK SCHEDULE WITH FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY

22 June (Monday)
·       9.30 – 10.30am: company warm-up technique class
·       10.30 – 11am: break
·       11am – 1pm: rehearsals and improvisation
·       1 – 2pm: lunch
·       2 – 3pm: portraiture and still poses (Jabu Siphika  [f] and Sifiso Majola [m])

23 June (Tuesday)
·       9.30 – 10.30am: company warm-up technique class
·       10.30 – 11am: break
·       11am – 1pm: rehearsals and improvisation
·       1 – 2pm: lunch
·       2 – 3pm: portraiture and still poses (Tshediso Kabulu [m] and Sifiso Khumalo [m])

24 June (Wednesday)
·       9.30 – 10.30am: company warm-up technique class
·       10.30 – 11am: break
·       11am – 1pm: rehearsals and improvisation
SPECIAL EVENING SESSION:
·       5.30 – 7.30pm: portraiture and still poses  (Julia Wilson [f] and Zinhle Nzama [f])

25 June (Thursday)
·       9.30 – 10.30am: company warm-up technique class
·       10.30 – 11am: break
·       11am – 1pm: rehearsals and improvisation

26 June (Friday)
·       9.30 – 10.30am: company warm-up technique class
·       10.30 – 11am: break
·       11am – 1pm:  final rehearsals  towards performance
·       1 – 2pm: lunch
6.30pm: “days like these” performance event with FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY


For enquires and bookings for the art residency, please contact artSPACE durban: 031 – 312 0793 or email: info@artspace-durban.com

For enquires about the Friday night performance, contact Clare on 082 – 875 6065




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