"seven ways to say goodbye"

23 June– 3 July 2022

Grahamstown National Arts Festival

Choreographed by:
Lliane Loots in collaboration with the dancers

Loots’s “seven ways to say goodbye” is set against a time of self-isolation and social distancing and confronts human relationships: father to son, mother to daughter, lover to lover, old age to dying, and individual to politics in a moving journey to finding self. It confronts the idea that saying goodbye is also about leaving behind that which history binds to us both personally and politically. In traversing the inner journeys of intimacy, “seven ways to say goodbye” is finally a celebration of all that is sacred and beautiful.