Indoni Dance Academy brings iKhaya home to The Cape Town Fringe Festival. This compelling work is dedicated to the generations brought up without a sense of home – “children growing themselves”.
Award winning choreographer Sbonakaliso Ndaba’s iKhaya began as a work showcasing the emptiness of a home without a mother. When her mother died, she was shocked into realizing her home had lost its heart. This beautiful family fell apart. Her father lost his sense of purpose. Handshakes replaced hugs at greeting.
Daring leaps and throws
In creating iKhaya both the choreographer and the dancers of Indoni Dance Arts & Leadership Academy initially embraced this theme of arbitrary and short-lived relationships. Then with their sense of relentless drive and energy, their daring leaps and throws, launched into seemingly arbitrary outstretched limbs, the production began to change. The dancers dance their freedom, trusting each other, providing answers for each other. They make connections and breathe and dance together as one. This idea of iKhaya is unbreakable. The embodiment of a home away from home.
Artistic Director of the Academy, Sbonakaliso Ndaba, is recognized as a leading contemporary African choreographer. She was the winner of the Western Cape Cultural Affairs Award in 2016 for Best Contribution to Performing Arts: Dance and in 2017 for Outstanding Achievement of Youth in Arts and Culture.
About ‘Indoni’
Performance and creative arts are powerful tools for healing and transformation. The vision of the Indoni Dance, Arts & Leadership Academy is to provide a space of excellence in dance and integrated arts for talented school graduates who are without the financial means to go into higher learning.
With the mission statement of “Investing in our Youth”, this three year post-school professional training programme for dance and integrated arts, including music, drama, and visual arts aims to liberate the talent and creativity of our youth.
Imparting life skills
The Academy seeks to promote the arts as a channel for economic, personal and professional development rekindling hope and imparting life skills to young people. Each student is empowered to become a creative collaborator in their own productive future.
Indoni’s founding members, Sbonakaliso Ndaba (Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer), Balu Nivison (Development Director, Lecturer in Life Skills), Jennifer van Papendorp (MD) and Dr Mamphela Ramphele, (Patron, Lecturer in SA Heritage) collectively bring their expertise to managing the academy.
What: Indoni
Running Time: 55 minutes – no interval
Where, when:
Zolani Centre, Terminus Road, Nyanga, Cape Town, Mon 2 October, 7pm, Tues 3 October, 6pm, Wed 4 October, 8pm
The Little Theatre, UCT, 37 Orange Street, Cape Town, Thurs 5 October , 7pm, Fri 6 October, 8pm, Sat 7 October, 5pm
Tickets: R35 Zolani Centre, R80 Little Theatre. Discounts pensioners, students, schools
Book: www.capetownfringe, or at door
Web: http://indoni-academy.org/, https://twitter.com/IndoniDance, Facebook @IndoniAcademy, Instagram: indoniacademy
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