"LOVE SONG"
31 March & 1 April @ 6.30pm
KZNSA Gallery
Choreographed by:
Lliane Loots, Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Zinhle Nzama, Sbonga Ndlovu, Siseko Duba and Ndumiso Dube.
“LOVE SONG” collaboratively created by the full company under the direction of Lliane Loots, offered a mesmerising journey into the heartland of the workings of the heart and how we love. Love is explored through bonds of friendship, intimate partners, as well as the social connection we share as community. Using some fabulous music that includes Bob Marley, Leonard Cohen and The Legacy, as FLATFOOT once again push themselves to embrace new ways of making and thinking dance.
“things we hide from the light”
19 – 21 May 2023
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre
Choreographed by:
Lliane Loots, Sifiso Khumalo, Zinhle Nzama and Jabu Siphika
Celebrating a monumental 20 years as eThekwini’s most prolific and awarded dance company, FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY honours this milestone with an extraordinary season of new contemporary dance. “things we hide from the light”, is a full-length work made up of four ‘movements’ that are connected by theme, intention and meaning”. With choreography by FLATFOOT’s Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Zinhle Nzama, and Lliane Loots – each offering is a deeply personal dance journey into each choreographer’s own respective heartland. Reflecting and referencing FLATFOOT’s own history, these four ‘movements’, speak to ideas of community and belonging that are set against the private and public ideas of healing and renewal.
"Portable Home"
29 August - 16 September 2023
JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Festival 2023
Sneddon Theatre (Durban, South Africa)
Mani Manim Theatre (Market Theatre - Johannesburg, South Africa)
Concept, direction and dramaturgy:
Virva Talonen (Finland)
Choreography:
Virva Talonen together with Jabu Siphika, Sbonga Ndlovu, Sifiso Khumalo, Siseko Duba, Kirsty Ndawo and Ndumiso ‘Digga’ Dube (FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY)
The Portable Home Project is a contemporary dance performance series which delves into a concept of home and its various definitions. Home can be an abstract or a concrete place, it may also refer to a state of mind or a bodily sensation. The Portable Home Project is co-created by choreographer and dancer Virva Talonen and Finnish lighting designer Nanni Vapaavuori. During the years 2016-2022, The Portable Home project visited Japan, Palestine, Finland and South Africa. In South Africa, in 2022/23 Virva worked with Flatfoot Dance Company.
DANCE SOME MORE 2023
28 October 2023
FLATFOOT's annual youth dance concert showcase
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre
Choreographed by:
Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Zinhle Nzama, Sbonga Ndlovu, Siseko Duba and Ndumiso Dube
Featuring dancers from FLATFOOT’s community programmes in KwaMashu, Umlazi and Cleremont.
DANCE SOME MORE 2023 is the culmination concert of the past 2023 year of township based dance training and development, and thanks to the support of the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, an opportunity for our young dancers to perform in a professional theatre situation.
FLATFOOT ACCESS FESTIVAL
28 November - 3 December 2023
Stable Theatre (Durban)
Participation from:
FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY, FLATTOOT Downie Dance Company, FLATFOOT Access Panthers, FLATFOOT’s Julia Pitt, Dance Movement and Jurg Koch (Switzerland)
As we enter our second annual edition of the FLATFOOT ACCESS FESTIVAL, I take this moment to acknowledge FLATFOOT’s almost 20-year history of encountering disability through our dance education and development work, and more recently in our professional development work. The journey to thinking about and working toward access and training for dancers living with both intellectual and physical disabilities lies at the heart of FLATFOOT, and this small festival – which seems to be growing! – is a wonderful moment of celebrating not just incredible dancers, dance makers and choreographers, but also the truly transformative power of dance to bind us all together.
