Collaborative Projects

Here are photos of the performance pieces that the students made in collaboration with the Siwela Sonke dancers. After two weeks of classes and making small pieces in the studio together, this project involved groups interviewing people and using the findings from their interviews as material for composed works created over the course of a very compressed two-day period. After several note sessions, the groups went looking for sites in which to perform, and below is one image of each work. They took on the challenge of working with architecture and found audience wonderfully. Once all the groups had performed, and we were on our way back to the studio, we had an impromptu dance with the whole company in response to a busker we passed who was playing a drum in the park. Ntombi, in the white hat, is one of the company's lead choreographers and dancers, and she had taught the group a combination in the morning that they then all spontaneously did as a grand finale!