BODIES OF WATER
FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY is set to dazzle audiences with its 2025 showcase premiere of BODIES
OF WATER at Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre from 10 – 13 April 2025. Award-winning choreographer,
Lliane Loots joins forces with celebrated Durban musicians Refiloe Olifant on violin, and Mandla
Matsha on percussion, to offer a beautiful, soulful and thought-provoking new season of
contemporary dance.
Loots says, “BODIES OF WATER embraces a double meaning as the dance work negotiates the
ecology of water alongside an awareness that the human body is made up of 70% water. Setting the
dancing moving body as a breathing metaphor for climate justice, the six FLATFOOT dancers face
what happens to bodies in times of personal and political crisis”. She goes on to say, “Set against our
own African geopolitics, and a larger ‘body’ of social dis-ease, BODIES OF WATER comes back to the
ideas of how we relate to ‘bodies of water’ as both artistic and political metaphors for survival. Even
though the human body is made up of mostly water, this fluidity is not our daily reality as we see a
world becoming more intractable. The remark bale thing about water is that it is always travelling
back to source, back home”.
Loots always acknowledges the six FLATFOOT dances (Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Zinhle Nzama,
Siseko Duba, Sbonga Ndlovu and Ndumiso Dube) as her co-creators. “In this work the dancers
courageously face off with their own flow and sometimes immovability as BODIES OF WATER open
space for all of us to examine the very beating of our own hearts and the (wished for) lightness of
our footsteps on this Earth. BODIES OF WATER is a daring and deeply beautiful navigation of both
the human condition and the ecology of our planet.”
BODIES OF WATER sees FLATFOOT partnering once again with lighting designer Wesley Maherry
whose bespoke designs for this dance company has seen him win numerous awards. His lighting
design is supported by his audio visual/cinematic stage projection designs that give BODIES OF
WATER a unique performance landscape.
BODIES OF WATER only has four public performance at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre from 10 – 13
April. Performances are on 10 and 11 April at 7pm, and 12 and 13 April at 2.30m. Booking is via
WEBTICKETS. Tickets cost between R95 and R120.
BODIES OF WATER is made possible by a partnership with the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre (UKZN)
