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IN THE WORKS DANCE SOLO PROJECT

IN THE WORKS DANCE SOLO PROJECT CHOREOGRAPHERS IN NEW DANCE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES ASSITEJ South Africa is pleased to announce…
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12th Drama for Life Conference and Festival

ASSITEJ SA in partnership with Drama for Life presents: The 12th Drama for Life Conference and Festival, ‘Masidlale: Exploring Connection’….
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ASSITEJ South Africa collaborates

During the emergency created by COVID-19, ASSITEJ SA has used the time to build bridges with other organisations and to address…
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TAH DAM! [together at home, dance and music]

Research Laboratory in South Africa for Fratz International 2020In association with MusicDance Cape Town and ASSITEJ South Africa Our project…
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Call for Proposals: Cradle of Creativity

⏰ Deadline: 17 June 2019 🌍 Cape Town, ZAF 🗓 20 – 25 August 2019 Call for Proposals: Cradle of…
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Yvette Hardie wins prestigious global award

The national director of ASSITEJ SA and the President of ASSITEJ International, Yvette Hardie, has been awarded a prestigious international…
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AFRICAN PLAYWRITING COMPETITION

A search for new African voices in theatre for young audiences ASSITEJ South Africa announces a playwriting competition open to…
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Cradle of Creativity

Cradle of Creativity A Biennial International Festival of Theatre for Young Audiences in South Africa ASSITEJ South Africa…
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Chiffonade across continents : relaying dance for early years

Dance for young audiences is still very much in its infancy in South Africa. While Nicola Elliott can be credited with…
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Theatre4Youth website relaunches in South Africa

ASSITEJ South Africa's Theatre4Youth programme is a mechanism for connecting theatre companies with schools and getting schools to the theatre. It…

IN THE WORKS DANCE SOLO PROJECT

2 November 2020 14 h 36 min

By: Kaatje De Geest

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IN THE WORKS DANCE SOLO PROJECT CHOREOGRAPHERS IN NEW DANCE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES ASSITEJ South Africa is pleased to announce... Read more →

IN THE WORKS DANCE SOLO PROJECT

CHOREOGRAPHERS IN NEW DANCE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES

ASSITEJ South Africa is pleased to announce the choreographers who will be working on the Dance Solo project which will premiere at My Body My Space, in early 2021. They will enjoy a mentorship with Jack Timmermans, artistic director of the Dutch dance company de Stilte, to develop a surprising and engaging work for young audiences. We look forward to sharing the outcomes of their mentorship process with you.

They are:

Big Boy Ndlovhu

Sizakele Mdi

Christelle Dreyer

Gladys Aghulhas

Darion Adams

Sumalgy Nuro

Letlhogonolo Nche

Smangaliso Ngwenya

Amanda Guma

Mzamo Kunene

Jabu Makuwa

Sinazo Mxeli

This programme of cultural exchange is made possible through support from the Royal Netherlands Embassy and Dutch Performing Arts.

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12th Drama for Life Conference and Festival

25 June 2020 9 h 08 min

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ASSITEJ SA in partnership with Drama for Life presents: The 12th Drama for Life Conference and Festival, ‘Masidlale: Exploring Connection’.... Read more →

ASSITEJ SA in partnership with Drama for Life presents: The 12th Drama for Life Conference and Festival, ‘Masidlale: Exploring Connection’. 20-24 August 2020, which will happen mostly online.

ASSITEJ South Africa is collaborating with Drama for Life in hosting an exciting, innovative and relevant ‘conference and festival’ to explore the current Arts landscape right now in the time of COVID 19, with support from the National Lotteries Commission of South Africa for the In the Works festival elements.

In response to the global pandemic, Drama For Life (DFL) and ASSITEJ South Africa invite participants to a new play space for finding ourselves in the here and now, an intergenerational collaborative exploration with students, learners, children, artists, facilitators, young academics and DFL alumni and staff, where everyone is invited to share and be included with equity.

This explorative co-created space will be a research generating opportunity which will seek to capture the processes of young artists creating, connecting and making Art in this time. The space will give priority and focus to the youth, while showcasing their creativity with and for children and the wider community of South Africa.

For more information, go here: https://www.artlink.co.za/news_article.htm?contentID=46286

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Tags: Drama for Life, National Lotteries Commission of South Africa
ASSITEJ South Africa collaborates

25 June 2020 9 h 03 min

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During the emergency created by COVID-19, ASSITEJ SA has used the time to build bridges with other organisations and to address... Read more →

During the emergency created by COVID-19, ASSITEJ SA has used the time to build bridges with other organisations and to address the most vulnerable communities, which of course include our artists and our children.

Making new partnerships

A number of new civil society initiatives have emerged during this period in South Africa, and amongst others, ASSITEJ SA has engaged with Im4theArts (a new initiative to bring together artists and all those in the cultural sector, across the spectrum to lobby government for better policies and stronger implementation of these). One of the activities of this organisation has been to create a free Winter School for artists which has taken place from 22-24 June, and which has touched on issues of capacity building, arts education, policy formation, lobbying and advocacy, fund-raising and sustainability, 4IR and much more. We developed a solidarity system where people could contribute money for data for others to participate in the school. We are grateful to ASSITEJ for the use of our professional zoom platform for this Winter School.

We have also engaged with the development of a new funding organisation which will support theatre and dance artists beyond the COVID crisis, called the STAND Foundation. Further we have become a member of three new organisations: SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL CHILD RIGHTS COALITION (SANCRC), an association which is bringing together partners from the health, education, justice, child rights, child welfare etc; NASCEE which is an initiative of organisations working in the educational sector (across all subjects and disciplines); and the Theatre and Dance Employers Association (which is lobbying to get support for artists who have been employed by organisations over the last three years).

While you may say that none of these organisations are our core business, we are finding that these collaborations are bringing great richness to our work, new contacts and new allies! It is exciting to see where these partnerships will lead.

Dong new things – making resources

In addition, we have been working with new partners to create activity packs for children who are not able to access theatre online. This speaks to making creative activities available to the poorest and most vulnerable children. The Treasure box of activities was based on characters from a local play, Florence and Watson, and takes children through activities linking to physical, social and personal wellbeing, as well as creativity and arts-based explorations in the time of COVID. The treasure box has now inspired local radio programmes and has been translated into 5 of South Africa’s languages, apart from English. It has been delivered with food parcels before schools re-opened, and is using our network of schools, members and partners to assist with delivery. Engagement is growing all the time. For more information go to https://www.thelearningtrust.org/treasure-box-activity-pack

Going online

We have been working with various partners to take our projects online. These include our educational empowerment programme where we have been creating short instructional videos for our teachers which can be shared on WhatsApp, which is the most accessible online app.

In addition, our Storytelling work has gone online on Facebook Live in partnership with Play Africa, the Children’s Museum: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ASSITEJSouthAfrica/events/?ref=page_internal

This will also now be part of the Virtual National Arts Festival, which can be watched daily from 25 June – 5 July at 14h00 SAST. You can find out more here: https://nationalartsfestival.co.za/show/isitimela-sendaba-the-story-train-2/

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Tags: Covid-19, Im4theArts, SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL CHILD RIGHTS COALITION, Tales, Virtual National Arts Festival
TAH DAM! [together at home, dance and music]

8 May 2020 12 h 34 min

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Research Laboratory in South Africa for Fratz International 2020In association with MusicDance Cape Town and ASSITEJ South Africa Our project... Read more →

Research Laboratory in South Africa for Fratz International 2020
In association with MusicDance Cape Town and ASSITEJ South Africa

Our project began by asking how we can collaborate with children to compose a music and dance performance together in real-time. Just as we were about to begin our project our president announced a state of national emergency due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Our country has been in lockdown for 6 weeks now; it has taken some time to adjust to this new way of being, but we are also discovering ways that we can still be creative and connect with young audiences during this time.

We have put our energy into learning how we can bring dance and music into the daily lives of young children (age 2-5years). Our idea is to use all we know as dancers, musicians and theatre makers to develop some fun interactive games for children and their parents/caregivers to play together at home. In this way, we hope to enchant families to bring the magic of the theatre into their homes.

The games we offer are guided by basic principles of music and dance composition and will be shared via short and easily accessible online videos. These same games will form the score for our live performance that will eventually be shared with children, either via video, or live performance once we are able to gather again.

We are also interested to see how the activity of families playing these games together can provide a more meaningful experience for them when they eventually watch the full performance. The performance score will be based on the games that we share in the videos which also serve as a valuable priming for when the games are developed into a theatre production.

We are delighted that we will be able to share our little videos with children anywhere in the world and are excited to draw on our diverse creative backgrounds and knowledge of both Western and African music and dance traditions.

We have started by having rehearsals with groups of 2 or 3 using internet platforms such as Skype and Zoom. Once our material is ready for filming, we will gather in small groups to shoot the little videos. We are lucky that our team already has a long history of collaboration to draw from, so this makes the online mediation a bit easier. We hope to create some really fun games to share and be guided to a performance score that we might not have otherwise thought of did we not have to make arrangements to work in such a way.

We hope that our fellow artists are also finding their inspiration during this unusual time.

Warmly,
Thalia, Sumalgy, Faye, Nicola, Manuela, Coila, Vintani

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