BUSY BEING BLUE
22 - 23 February 2024
KZNSA Gallery
Choreographed by:
Lliane Loots, Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Sbonga Ndlovu, Siseko Duba, Ndumiso Dube, and Zinhle Nzama
"JOURNEY"
10 – 11 May 2024
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre
15 – 17 August 2024
Playhouse
Choreographed by:
Lliane Loots and Gaby Saranouffi
Featuring dancers:
Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Zinhle Nzama, Sbonga Ndlovu, Siseko Duba, Ndumiso ‘Digga’ Dube, and Tshediso Kabulu
"Close by … / La rue d’à-côté …"
27 August - 8 September 2024
Outside Sneddon Theatre, Outside KZNSA Gallery,
Outside Alliance Française de Durban, Outside St Anne's Theatre,
Outside ThePlatform Gallery
Participation from:
Anne Le Batard and Jean-Antoine Bigot (EX NIHILO) working with FLATFOOT’s Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Zinhle Nzama, Mthoko Mkhwanazi, Siseko Duba, Ndumiso ‘Digga’ Dube, and Sbonga Ndlovu
Compagnie Ex Nihilo (Marseille, France) in an encounter with FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY (Durban, South Africa) for JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Festival 2024.
"DANCE SOME MORE 2024"
26 October 2024
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre
Choreographed by:
Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Zinhle Nzama, Siseko Duba, Ndumiso ‘Digga’ Dube, and Sbonga Ndlovu
Participation from:
Dancers from FLATFOOT’s community based programmes in KwaMashu, Umlazi and Clermont
AFRICAN DANCE DISABILITY NETWORK JOMBA! ABILITY FESTIVAL 2024
22 - 25 August 2024
Stable Theatre, Durban
1. the infinite space between us
FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY and the FLATFOOT Wheelchair programme
Lliane Loots in collaboration with the dancers Jabu Siphika, Ndumiso ‘Digga’ Dube and Julia Pitt
2. now that we are here …
FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY and the FLATFOOT Downie Dance Company
Lliane Loots in collaboration with the dancers
Sifiso Khumalo, Siseko Duba, Jabu Siphika, Sbonga Ndlovu, Zinhle Nzama and Ndumiso Dube
Charles Phillips, Michaela Munro, and Sofia Braun
"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.
THE CLEANSING
20 - 24 April 2022
Durban Botanic Gardens
Choreographed by:
Lliane Loots in collaboration with the dancers
Participation from:
FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY and Iain ewok Robinson
In THE CLEANSING, FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY journeys into the heartland of Earth issues, using this performance moment to negotiate the true meaning of ecology – the connectedness of human existence to all existence. What better site than Durban’s Botanic Gardens to open up this exploration of self to our natural world. In this moving dance work, the Botanic Gardens – itself bearing the scars of a colonial heritage – are transformed into a site of continued natural beauty and potential transformations.
13 and 14 May 2022
Playhouse - Opera Theatre
This is moving and powerful choreo-poetry that aims to subtly carry its audience to places of deep knowing and awareness. Created in the evolving collaborative creative process, this dance work is jointly created by Lliane Loots in collaboration with the dancers Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Mthoko Mkhwanazi, Sbonga Ndlovu, Siseko Duba and Ndumiso Dube.
"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.
"CUT (part 2)"
30 August - 11 September 2022
JOMBA! Cotemporary Dance Festival
Choreographed by:
Vincent Sekwati Mantsoe
In setting out to share his technique with FLATFOOT, Mantsoe took the company of 7 dancers through his training system of GOBA and has made a live performance that sits next to his short film – CUT (part 1). Also dealing with the shift between an individual and collective sense of self set off by the pandemic, CUT (part 2) is a journey to finding our humanity again.
“same difference”
13 - 17 October 2022
SIBIKWA BODY MOVES Festival (Benoni, Gauteng)
Choreographed by:
Lliane Loots in collaboration with the dancers
Dancers:
Jabu Siphika, Zinhle Nzama, Siseko Duba, Sifiso Khumalo, Karl Hebbelmann, Kevin Govender, Michaela Munro, Charles Phillips
“same difference” is an idiomatic phrase often used in English that indicates that two things are not really different in any important way. This is the starting point into a dance work that plots the meetings and partings of a group of 8 South African dancers who journey into a way of seeing one another.
DANCE SOME MORE 2022
FLATFOOT's annual youth dance concert showcase
25 November 2022
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre
Choreographed by:
Lliane Loots, Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Zinhle Nzama, Sbonga Ndlovu, Siseko Duba and Ndumiso Dube.
Participation from:
dancers from FLATFOOT’s community programmes in KwaMashu, Umlazi and Cleremont
DANCE SOME MORE 2022 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
25 November 2022
Courtyard Theatre (Durban)
Choreographed by:
Lliane Loots and Sydney Erlikh (Chicago, USA)
Participation from:
FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY, FLATTOOT Downie Dance Company, and FLATFOOT’s Julia Pitt
FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY is delighted to offer its first FLATFOOT ACCESS DANCE FESTIVAL 2022. Three new works created by FLAFTFOOT were showcased, celebrating the power of dance to transcend narrow definitions of who can dance. The first is Loots’s collaboration with the dancers called ‘same difference’ that premiered to standing ovations at SIBIKWA’s Body Moves Festival in Johannesburg in October 2022. The second work saw FLATFOOT partnering with guest choreographer from Chicago (USA) Sydney Erlikh, and her work with FLATFOOT and the FLATFOOT Downie Dance Company is called “Shield of the Heart. The final work on the programme is a collaboration between Loots, FLATFOOT and Julia Pitt, a dancer living with cerebral palsy. Loots has worked collaboratively with Pitt and FLATFOOT’s Jabu Siphika and Zinhle Nzama to create an intimate and moving trio called “perpetual motion”.
"seven ways to say goodbye"
17 - 19 September 2021
Playhouse Drama Theatre
Choreographed by:
Lliane Loots in collaboration with the dancers
Participation from:
Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Kristi-Leigh Gresse, Yaseen Manuel, Mthoko Mkhwanazi, Siseko Dube, Ndumiso ‘Digga’ Dube and Sbonga Ndlovu
Lighting and audio visuals by:
Wesley Maherry
Costume design by:
Greg King
DANCE SOME MORE 2021
5 December 2021
SHARKS Business Centre - Kings Park
Choreographed by:
Jabu Siphika, Sifiso Khumalo, Zinhle Nzama, Sbonga Ndlovu, Sisekp Duba, Mthoko Mkhwanazi and Sbonga Ndlovu
FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY
in residency with VINCENT SEKWATI MANTSOE (France/South Africa)
12 - 17 April 2021
FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY's PARK DANCES #1
7 - 11 April 2021
Durban Botanic Gardens
Choreographed by:
Lliane Loots in collaboration with the dancers
Participation from:
Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Zinhle Nzama, Mthoko Mkhwanazi, Sbonga Ndlovu, Siseko Duba and Ndumiso Dube
FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY's PARK DANCES #2
11 - 20 June 2021
Durban Botanic Gardens
Choreographed by:
Lliane Loots in collaboration with the dancers
Participation from:
Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Zinhle Nzama, Mthoko Mkhwanazi, Sbonga Ndlovu, Siseko Duba and Ndumiso Dube
Special Guest:
Manesh Maharaj
BUSY SEEING RED
21 February 2020
KZNSA GALLERY
Choreographed by:
Lliane Loots, Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Mthoko Mkhwanazi and Zinhle Nzama
Dancers:
Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Zinhle Nzama Mthoko Mkhwanazi, Siseko Dube, Ndumiso ‘Digga’ Dube and Sbonga Ndlovu
UNDER THE SAME SKY
24 – 28 April 2019
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre
Sifiso Khumalo – Ngaphesheya
Jabu Siphika – Death of a Dream.
Lliane Loots’s – unsheltered
Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Zinhle Nzama, Sbonga Ndlovu, Ndumiso Dube, Siseko Duba, and Mthoko Mkhwanazi
Lighting design by:
Wesley Maherry
“amaVendors” - 2019 JOMBA! Festival
27 August - 8 September 2019
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre
Choreographed by:
Fana Tshabalala
Participation from:
FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY
STAND BY ME
12 November 2019
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre
Choreographed by:
Lliane Loots in collaboration with the dancers
Participation from:
Sifiso Khumalo, Siseko Duba, Jabu Siphika and Zinhle Nzama and their counterparts Karl Hebbelmann, Charles Phillips, Kevin Govender and Michaela Munro
DANCE SOME MORE! 2019 - Community Youth Dance Programme
19 October 2019
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre
Choreographed by:
Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Zinhle Nzama and special guest Fana Tshabalala
Participation from:
FLATFOOT TRAINING PROGRAMME
