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Jomba! Contemporary Dance Experience

 
7th Jomba! Contemporary Dance Festival: 19 - 29 August 2004
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Jomba! Performance Schedule
Jomba! 2004 Brochure available in PDF
Jomba! Conference
Jomba! Youth Fringe
Jomba! Fringe
Press Release
A dynamic 12 days of top contemporary dance featured: Fantastic Flying Fish Dance Company, Flatfoot Dance Company, Boyzie Cekwana’s Floating Outfit Project, Gregory Maqoma, Jay Pather’s Republic project, Phenduka Dance Theatre, and award-winning African companies Ijodee (Nigeria), La Compagnie (Mali), Projecto Cuvalis (Mozambique), plus many others.

Jomba! also included dance workshops, masterclasses, a fringe programme, a youth dance project, and a four-day conference exploring the unique identity and aesthetics of African Contemporary Dance.

To all at the CCA and JOMBA!

On behalf of SIYAGIJIMA and Project Dudla Ntombi (run in KwaMashu) we thank you for the donation fo JOMBA! shirts!


 

Jomba! Performance Schedule

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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 18

  VENUE ACTIVITY
    Opening night Speech : Artistic Director Lliane Loots Click on Picture to read the opening night speech!
7.30 PM
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre

La Compagnie Kettly Noël ( Mali )

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Kettly Noel at Jomba! 2004

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Ijodee (Nigeria)
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Ijodee (Nigeria) click to enlarge picture
  
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Projecto Cuvilas (Mozambique )
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Projecto Cuvilas (Mozambique ) click to enlarge picture
  
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THURSDAY AUGUST 19
  VENUE ACTIVITY
7.30 PM
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre

La Compagnie Kettly Noël ( Mali )

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Kettly Noel at Jomba! 2004
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Ijodee (Nigeria)
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Ijodee (Nigeria) click to enlarge picture
  
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Projecto Cuvilas (Mozambique )
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Projecto Cuvilas (Mozambique ) click to enlarge picture
  
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FRIDAY AUGUST 20
  VENUE ACTIVITY
7.30 PM
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre
Phenduka Dance Theatre
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Gregory Maqoma and Vuyani Dance Theatre
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SATURDAY AUGUST 21
  VENUE ACTIVITY

2.00PM
4.00PM

Ekhaya Multi-Arts Centre
(Kwa-Mashu)

 

 
Ijodee Performance More Info note video clip is over 3MegByte. MOV1 file - all rights reserved to artists
Ijodee Workshop
Ijodee (Nigeria) click to enlarge picture Ijodee (Nigeria) click to enlarge picture Ijodee (Nigeria) click to enlarge picture
     
7.30 PM
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre
Phenduka Dance Theatre
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Gregory Maqoma and Vuyani Dance Theatre
 
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SUNDAY AUGUST 22
  VENUE ACTIVITY
7.30 PM
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre Fringe : Full programme and some video clips
Afternoon
 Theatre Arts Room Drama Department - UKZN
Conference: African Contemporary Dance? Questioning Issues of a Performance Aesthetic for Developing and Independent Continent
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MONDAY AUGUST 23
  VENUE ACTIVITY
Afternoon
 Theatre Arts Room Drama Department - UKZN Conference: African Contemporary Dance? Questioning Issues of a Performance Aesthetic for Developing and Independent Continent
 
7.30 Pm

Artspace
(3 Millar Road off Umgeni Road next to Waste Centre )

 

Jay Pather’s Republic (Part 1) More Info
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TUESDAY AUGUST 24
  VENUE ACTIVITY
Afternoon
 Theatre Arts Room Drama Department - UKZN Conference: African Contemporary Dance? Questioning Issues of a Performance Aesthetic for Developing and Independent Continent
     
7.30 PM
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre

Feri De Geus +
Phenduka Dance Theatre Collaboration
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 Double U photo montage

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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 25
  VENUE ACTIVITY
Afternoon
 Theatre Arts Room Drama Department - UKZN Conference: African Contemporary Dance? Questioning Issues of a Performance Aesthetic for Developing and Independent Continent
7.30 PM
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre
Feri De Geus +
Phenduka Dance Theatre Collaboration
More Info
 Double U photo montage

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THURSDAY AUGUST 26
  VENUE ACTIVITY
7.30 PM
 Albany Grove
(meet at Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre Studio Salbany Building )

Jay Pather’s Republic (Part 2) More Info
 
FRIDAY AUGUST 27
  VENUE ACTIVITY
7.30 PM
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre
Fantastic Flying Fish Dance Theatre Company
More Info
 
Boyzie Cekwana’s Floating Outfit Project
Flatfoot Dance Company
More Info
 
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SATURDAY AUGUST 27
  VENUE ACTIVITY

2.00 PM

Cato Crest Community Hall

Youth Fringe Dance Project
7.30 PM
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre
Fantastic Flying Fish Dance Theatre Company
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Boyzie Cekwana’s Floating Outfit Project
Flatfoot Dance Company
More Info
 
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SUNDAY AUGUST 28
  VENUE ACTIVITY
7.30 PM
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre

Jomba! Young Choreographers - Young Choreographers Grant Winners - Musa Hlatshwayo, Siyanda Duma, Ntombi Gasa, Mdu Mtshali

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Jomba! 2004 Brochure available in PDF Full Brochure 972 kbytes
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Cover 127 kbytes Introduction 109 kbytes Republic 108 kbytes
Ijodee Dance Company (Nigeria);
La Compagnie (Mali),
Project Cuvilas
(Mozambique)
125 kbytes

Performance Schedule
88 kbytes

Education & Workshop Schedule
110 kbytes

Conference and Fringe
86 kbytes

(full Conference in HTML)

Durban Companies: Fantastic Flying Fish Dance Company, Flatfoot Dance Company, The Floating Outfit Project
124 kbytes		 Gregory Magoma & Vuyani Dance Theatre (South Africa); Feri De Geus & Noortje Bijvoets (Holland) & Phenduka Dance Theatre (South Africa); Young Choreographers
145 kbytes

 
The Centre for Creative Arts acknowledges the sponsors of Jomba 2004 with great appreciation:
National Lottery and Distribution Fund Royal Netherlands Embassy Humanist Institute for Development Co-operation Africalia Association Franciase d'action Artistique French Institute of South Africa
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