Jazzart Dance Theatre turns 50 this year and will honour the occasion with a dazzling expression of love, life, and the joy of dance at Artscape called the Jazzart 50 Years of Dance Celebratory Festival. This will take place on 6 and 7 October 2023.
The Jazzart 50 Years of Dance Celebratory Festival will showcase a host of national and international guest companies and artists, featuring Jazzart’s young, energetic, and ambitious students and their professional company of dancers.
Jazzart’s celebrated alumni Sifiso Kweyama, Celeste Botha and Shaun Oelf showcase works alongside multiple award-winning choreographers Vincent Mantsoe and Gregory Maqoma. They are joined by South African dance legend Sylvia Glasser and Moving into Dance which shares an historic legacy with Jazzart, being one of South Africa?s longest standing contemporary dance companies.
The programme includes solos, duets and short works created by graduates from Jazzart and an extract of a collaborative work with Unmute Dance Theatre by Andile Vellem and Yaseen Manuel.
Requiem Collaboration
This will be followed by an exciting new collaboration between Jazzart, Cape Town Opera, Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra and the Phoenix Dance Theatre featuring the new, critically acclaimed production of Requiem: Journeys of the Soul (12 to 14 October 2023) which has been choreographed and directed by Jazzart’s Artistic Director, Dane Hurst, with music by Mozart and Neo Muyanga.
This brand-new production premiered in June this year at the Leeds Grand Theatre in collaboration with Opera North and Phoenix Dance Theatre. It promises to be a thought-provoking and poignant expression of remembrance and rebirth in a post-pandemic society.
What: Jazzart 50 Years of Dance Celebratory Festival
Where and when: Artscape on 6 and 7 October 2023 and 12 to 14 October 2023
Tickets: Computicket
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