Cape Dance Company to perform at the Masque Theatre 15 – 19 June 2010

For its second season at the Masque Theatre, the Cape Dance Company (CDC), proudly celebrating its 15th year, will present a programme of new works by acclaimed South African and International choreographers,  Gregory Maqoma, Mamela Nyamza and Carlos dos Santos.  The eclectic style of the choreographies showcases the technical excellence and artistry of this athletic and cutting edge dance company.http://capetowncreatives.co.za/blog

Cape Town Design Network 9 June

The Cape Town Design Network (CTDN2010) is a monthly gathering hosted by Creative Cape Town during 2010. This month’s Design Network will be held at Primedia Broadcasting, Suite 7D, 2nd Floor, Somerset Square, Highfield Road, Green Point at 17h30. This event is focussed on graphic design and features well known designer, Bruno Morphet of Plan B Design and Tabatha King, the Managing Director of Coley Porter Bell design agency. www.creativecapetown.net

Soccer Kultcha 11 June – 10 July

Soccer Kultcha is an exhibition curated by Paul Weinberg, Warren Nelson and Leanne Barling in collaboration with Michaelis Art Gallery. Soccer Kultcha explores the footballers and their followers beyond the main stadiums. They play on any field they can find, sometimes with home-made balls or goals. This exhibition is about this vibrant soccer culture. Far from official photographs, grand stadiums and headline grabbing photojournalism, the photographs of Soccer Kultcha invite us to rediscover the game of football, and the lives and passions of ordinary people who play and celebrate the game. www.michaelis.uct.ac.za/

Joint Photographic Exhibition 3 June – 15 July

Play Jump Eat is a series of images shot all over Cape Town, exploring the themes of Joy, Play, Abundance, Beauty and Juxtaposition. In contrast to this stylised work will be the grainy images of five bright school children from Emasithandane Children’s Home in the township of Nyanga.http://capetowncreatives.co.za/blog

Evita se Perron: Soccerfree Zone June and July 2010

Soccer fever is upon us. They say there is no choice. Everything is geared to the game, like it or not. Balls will be kicked throughout the land. Wherever you go, you will be booted onto the team, vuvuzela in hand. And at a price. Evita se Perron in Darling will be the exception. The Most Famous White Woman in South Africa has declared her cabaret restaurant at the old railway station a SOCCERfree ZONE. “For every husband and son who will want to watch soccer, there will be a wife and a daughter who might not want it as badly,” says Mrs Bezuidenhout. “So let them come to Darling and share time, good food and laughter with me”. http://capetowncreatives.co.za/blog

I love you, you’re perfect, now change… 20 May – 12 June

Directed by award winning director Paul Griffiths and with musical direction by Roland Perold, the cast bring to the boards an array of musical theatre performance experience as Roland Perold, Niall Griffin, Shannyn Fourie and Candice van Litsenborgh tell the story(s) of relationship(s) – from the nerve-wracking preparation for a first date, to expressions of a love learned and earned over a lifetime.http://capetowncreatives.co.za/blog

Own Goal Group Exhibition at AVA 31 May – 25 June 2010.

Richard Mason presents Carbonage Light in the Main gallery, Arstrip and New media room. Carbonage refersto a fusion of carbon based life forms with the ideologies and Products of transnational corporations in a world that revolves around oil. Anatomical Arrangements is the first solo exhibition by Tamzyn Varney employing the Long Gallery. The work featured in this exhibition focuses on the human body as a social emblem.http://capetowncreatives.co.za/blog

Soccer Cinema Festival 5 – 10 June

The Labia Cinema complex will host a Soccer Cinema Festival from 5 – 10 June. This event is the culmination of a travelling soccer cinema project which began on 6 April 2010. The films to be screened were sourced from broadcasting commissioning editors and filmmakers from across the world to provide access to the best documentary films ever made about soccer. http://soccercinema.co.za/

From Africa with Laugh 9 June – 3 July

War. Famine. Disease. These are the stereotypical images of Africa. But 2010 is a significant year for Africa for two reasons: the FIFA World Cup comes to Africa for the first time, and no fewer than 17 countries on the continent celebrate 50 years of independence! To celebrate both, the African Arts Institute will bring stand-up comedians from around the African continent to Cape Town for their irreverent and humorous takes on Africa, independence and football! http://www.baxter.co.za

For its second season at the Masque Theatre, the Cape Dance Company (CDC), proudly celebrating its 15th year, will present a programme of new works by acclaimed South African & International choreographers, namely Gregory Maqoma, Mamela Nyamza and Carlos dos Santos, to name a few.  The eclectic style of the choreographies showcases the technical excellence and artistry of this athletic and cutting edge dance company.

Allesverloren…Alles Niet Verloren, (All Is Lost, All Is Not Lost) is a new work created by Carlos dos Santos, a world renowned Brazilian/American choreographer and master teacher. For this piece, dos Santos was inspired by current world events – disasters, tremors, volcanoes and wars. He says, “people think they are alone, and people think alone. We live in an individualistic, materialistic, insanely competitive world, one that prays at the altar of celebrity, perfection, possession & financial reward”. Dos Santos is an artist who conveys his ideas through dance as his chosen form of expression and it is one of the ways to express his attitudes to the world and how we can save it. “If we remove ourselves from our comfort zone and concern ourselves with the continued life of our planet, all will then not be lost.” Like Water…. , also by dos Santos, is a contemporary classical quartet that suggests the ebb and flow of constantly moving water as a metaphor for the constantly changing and evolving life of an artist. This engaging work showcases the technical virtuosity and strength of the ladies of the CDC.

In addition, the performance includes Kitty Phetla’s quirky Soukora (At Night!), which has a light and playful, flirtatious quality suggesting a dance of fire-flies in the African night. Gregory Maqoma’s pulsing, organic work, Molo Wethu, has an earthy Euro-African style with undulating torso movements and a distinctive energetic quality of dance, a trademark of this well-loved dance company. Gladius (Sword), originally created as a solo, has been extended into a full work by Debbie Turner, the Artistic Director of the CDC and the Cape Academy of Performing Arts (CAPA), one of the City’s top training institutions established by Turner 25 years ago.  Gladius explores the life of the gladiator who ultimately has to look death in the eye and it incorporates edgy, staccato movement coupled with a powerful electronic score keeps the audience riveted with subliminal feelings of anxiety, fear and ultimately, resignation.

The Cape Dance Company performances run at the Masque Theatre on 15,16,17 June at 7:30pm, 18 June at 6pm and 19 June at 3pm.  Tickets cost from R45 to R80 with special offers for Masque Theatre members and all bookings via the Masque on 021 788 1898.