The Market Theatre Presents Jomba! At The Market

International Dance Festival, Jomba Heads To The Market Theatre

As part of celebrating a 2nd year of partnership, the Centre for Creative Arts and the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Festival is delighted to continue to work with the Market Theatre to collaborate in sharing a smaller and carefully curated “JOMBA! @ THE MARKET” following the Durban festival in September. Four selected local and international dance companies will travel onto Johannesburg and the Market Theatre and will feature in a week-long celebration of some of the world’s most profound and provoking dance makers and dance companies.

The selected dance companies include Deepak Kurki Shivaswamy from India, internationally renowned South African choreographer Robyn Orlin working with Moving into Dance, Yaseen Manuel from Cape Town, and renowned South African dance company, JAZZART. Audiences in Gauteng will have 4 days to revel in the performance excellence of this curated contemporary dance platform from 11 to 14 September 2024, alongside special free workshops.

The curatorial provocation of this 26th Annual JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience is “finding our way home“. Curator Dr Lliane Loots says,

“This year’s JOMBA! is set against a backdrop of both local and global political renegotiations of what it means to be human, to belong, to have a home and to be a citizen of a country (and of a planet); against an occupied Gaza, a ravaged Ukraine, anti-foreigner right wing political movements in Europe, a South African government of national unity that is busy manoeuvring for power … JOMBA! begins to ask what is means to find our way home. As a critical dance festival, we have curated a series of artistic encounters that question ideas of home, belonging and citizenship. We have invited dance works that ask us to relook at home as not just a physical space, but as a metaphoric and poetic space where we are either seeking to return, or to leave. We honour dance makers who will be bringing beauty, humour, pathos and politics to our stages and hearts”.

Show Information:
Jomba! At The Market

Venue:
John Kani & Barney Simon Theatres at The Market Theatre

Dates:
11 to 14 September 2024

Tickets:
Tickets from R100

Bookings:
Can be made through Webtickets

For reduced-price block bookings (of 10 or more) groups call 011 832 1641

Age Restriction:
PG

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