National Arts Festival Booking Kit 2010 by National Arts Festival

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2010 SPONSORS XOLISWA TOM MEC FOR SPORT, RECREATION, ARTS AND CULTURE PROVINCE OF THE EASTERN CAPE This year, South Africa has the honour of playing host to the world during the Soccer World Cup. The National Arts Festival is therefore appropriately timed to showcase to international visitors the richness of our cultural diversity and the unity of our nationhood that has enabled all South Africans to make an inspirational journey from 27th April 1994 to where we are today as one of the most progressive constitutional democracies in the world. This National Arts Festival is a valuable platform for South Africa’s talented artists, writers, dancers, musicians and crafters to welcome international visitors to the African soil with the vibrant and pulsating rhythms of our multi-cultural expressions. The Eastern Cape government regards the National Arts Festival as an important component that can contribute to the Provincial Growth and Development which can assist to combat poverty and to stimulate the economic growth of the province. I also would like to take this opportunity to invite both South African and international visitors to the National Arts Festival to make the time in their schedules to visit some of the other towns and rural villages in the Eastern Cape to witness how the Eastern Cape department’s commitment to the Cultural Industries Growth Strategy is being fully implemented; and how the Department is helping to elevate local artists and crafters to become innovative and to be able to sustain themselves through their skills and talents. It is with pride and humility that I extend a warm gratitude to our artists who will enrich the experiences that we will all have in this particular year when the international focus is on South Africa. Similarly, I am grateful to everyone who has decided to make the Eastern Cape a point of destination this year. “Xa sisebenza sonke singeza lukhulu”

JACKO MAREE GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE STANDARD BANK GROUP The National Arts Festival, now in its 36th year continues to play an important role in the cultural landscape of our country. In this significant year in which South Africa has the honour of hosting the FIFA World Cup we are pleased to be able to contribute to showcasing our country’s wealth of artistic talent. We value any contribution we can make to enhance the growth and enrichment of South Africa’s cultural heritage especially through the annual Young Artist Awards as well as the National Youth Jazz Festival which forms a vital part of the Standard Bank Jazz Festival. The partnership formed in 2002 with the Eastern Cape Government is now firmly established and, together with several other main sponsors, we believe that we make an important contribution to this cross-cultural showcase of our country’s talent. As a financial institution we try to position ourselves as being relevant to the societies in which we operate and the arts constitute one of the core pillars of our involvement with communities. The festival has always been a platform for freedom of expression and, in the corporate and financial world, we know that a free society is the best environment for our business to grow. Our appreciation is due to all the people who help to make this festival happen, in particular the citizens of Grahamstown and the Eastern Cape as a whole, for whom this is such an important annual event. We wish you every success.

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FESTIVAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN As the world descends on our shores, we welcome you all as you embrace this complimentary experience to the soccer spectacle. As a nation we will share with the world the cliched beauty of our natural and other resources, as artists we will share our gifts and talents, our insights and reﬂections and so much more. We stand tall in the knowledge that what we do does not only reﬂect our lives as a nation, but enriches and in many instances sets the bar for so many. Siyanamkela nonke! This festival is the perfect platform for showcasing the work of amateur, semi-professional and high achieving creative workers and professionals. This collective of creators has one thing in common...a hunger for excellence and high achievement, a propensity for innovation and cutting edge expression. This excellence has, increasingly, stretched beyond artistic endeavours. Various programmes have been introduced to the Festival programme in an effort to provide skills especially for young and emerging artists. These programmes ensure that the developing cadre of practitioners not only learns from those who have been before, but also that experienced professionals are afforded an opportunity to “lift others as they rise”. To all festival patrons, thank you for granting us the currency we have enjoyed over so many years. We are proud yet humbled by the continued support we enjoy from you. We want to make your trip an experience worth re-telling! We say ningadinwa nangomuso, to all our sponsors! To staff and crew, thank you for the hard work you put in to make the festival a success.The theatre companies and individuals who grace our stages, the visual artists whose work populates our exhibition spaces, your drive and hunger give us, the National Arts Festival, a reason to exist. I wish to bid you all farewell as the Chairman of the Festival Committee. I thank all Festival Committee colleagues, past and present, for the many years of stimulating, invigorating, and engaging discourse. It was not always easy, transition is not easy, but it has been an exhilarating journey. A journey not dissimilar to what South Africa is currently experiencing. May the National Arts Festival thrive and enjoy many more years of being the cutting edge, innovative platform of excellence that it continually strives to be.

AYANDA MJEKULA NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL CHAIRMAN On behalf of the National Arts Festival Board I’d like to welcome you to another celebration of all that is excellent in the world of the Arts. This is a momentous year, not just for the Festival but also for South Africa as we play host to the FIFA World Cup. To complement this great event our artists have risen to the challenge of preparing and presenting an amazing programme of Theatre, Dance, Jazz, Music, Visual Art and more. This Booking Kit shows the fruits of their endeavours, and I’m conﬁdent that you will ﬁnd plenty to inspire, challenge and exhilarate you. As an iconic annual event on South Africa’s arts calendar, the Festival is acutely aware of its importance as a platform for all to showcase their work. Through the Main Programme and the Fringe we have achieved great things over the years and, this year, the introduction of the Arena Programme adds an exciting new dimension to the Festival. It is here that you will see the work of tomorrow’s stars as well as work by established artists and “Festival favourites”. It’s a strong blend, and a great new home for our artists at all stages of their careers. As always we invite you to sample from as broad a spectrum of work as possible. Expose yourself to new ideas, new thinking, new approaches and allow yourself to be swept out of your comfort zone into new and amazing worlds. Thank you for considering a trip to Grahamstown this year – we look forward to welcoming you to 15 Days of AMAZ!NG.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS PRESENTING SPONSORS:

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With thanks to:

The Schools and Colleges of Grahamstown: Carinus Arts Centre, Diocesan School for Girls, Graeme College, Kingswood College, Nombulelo Secondary School, P J Olivier Hoërskool, St Andrew’s College, St Andrew’s Preparatory, Victoria Girls’ High School, Victoria Preparatory School, Good Shepherd and Oatlands Primary School.

The Citizens of Grahamstown for their hospitality, support and encouragement. National Arts Festival Team: Tony Lankester (CEO), Ismail Mahomed (Festival Director), Lynette Marais (Project Consultant), Kate Axe Davies (Fringe Manager), Terri Procter (Admin Manager), Tony Groenewald (Technical Manager), Christine Maree (Technical Assistant), Danielle Wessels (Receptionist and Social Secretary), Jon Leiper (Fringe Assistant), Selina White (Transnet Village Green Manager), Rochelle Christian (Transnet Village Green Assistant) Charles Richards (Transnet Village Green Operations Manager), Gilly Hemphill and Cilnette Pienaar (The Famous Idea Trading Company) (Media and Public Relations) Cadar Printers, Port Elizabeth (Printing)

Ireland / Davenport Team: Phillip Ireland, Sue Napier, Stephane Niemann, Astrid Cunningham, Will Smith, Natalie Urban, Kati Sillo, Simone Bazley, Talia Artman

Website: Matthew Buckland, Tim Gane and Daniel Bailey (Creative Spark) Michael Buckbee (Social Collective)

BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Association incorporated under Section 21 Registration No. 2002/016052/08 Ayanda Mjekula (Chairperson) Sibongile Khumalo (Chairperson Festival Committee) Paul Bannister Letepe Maisela Elinor Sisulu Grahame Lindop Nopasika Lila Albie Sachs Louisa Clayton (Grahamstown Foundation Representative) Tony Lankester (CEO)

Audit Committee: Thavanesen Padiachy (Chairperson) Nokuzola Saki Grahame Lindop Nopasika Lila

National Arts Festival Committee 2010:

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Albany Museum Group AN White Apartheid Museum Arts Council England Brandhouse South Africa British Council Cacadu District Municipality Cadar Printers Catalina Theatre Churches of Grahamstown Computicket Contemporary Films Culture Ireland Cultures France DALRO Democratic Governance and Rights Unit (UCT) Dehlavi Films Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) Eastern Cape Tourism Board Embassy of Brazil Embassy of Israel Embassy of Mexico Embassy of Japan eThekweni Municipality Flota (Slovenia) French Department of Foreign Affairs French Embassy of South Africa French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) Goethe Institute Grahamstown Foundation Grahamstown Hospitality Guild Gauteng Provincial Government Ile-de-France Provincial Government Japan Foundation Instituto Italiano di Cultura Italian Cultural Centre Kyk-Net Labia Theatre Cape Town Les Grandes Personnes Magnetic Storm Magnolia Makana Municipality Mayoral Committee of the Makana Municipality Municipal Manager & Director of Economic Development : Makana Municipality Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (USA) Members of the South African and International Media Michael Stevenson Gallery Mmino – Norwegian Funding Organisation Mondipak Mono Macabre National Lottery Distribution Trust Nu-Metro Pick ‘n Pay Walmer Red Pepper Pictures Representation of Flanders Rhodes Investec Business School Rhodes University Royal Netherlands Embassy SAMRO Endowment for the National Arts Sedgwicks Old Brown Sherry Steve Biko Centre SGB - Cape South African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) South African Police Standard Bank for loan of computers Standard Bank Gallery Ster-Kinekor Subang Skypark – Malaysia United States Embassy Video Vision Village Green Committee Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren Wide Foundation

Artists and Technical Staff whose talent, professionalism and creativity make the Festival a pleasure to produce, and an amazing 15 days for our audiences to experience.

Sibongile Khumalo (Chairman), Mpho Molepo (Vice Chairman), Richard Cock (Music) Mokale Koapeng (Music), Suzette Le Sueur (Dance), Jay Pather (Dance), Andrew Verster (Visual Art), Brenton Maart (Visual Art), Melissa Mboweni (Visual Art), Malcolm Purkey (Theatre), Aubrey Sekhabi (Theatre), Adrienne Sichel (Theatre, Dance, Arts Development), Trevor Steele Taylor (Film), Anthea Garman (Think!Fest) Alan Webster (Jazz), Nikelwa Kanise (Grahamstown Community Arts Representative)

Sponsors’ Representatives Godfrey V Mona (Eastern Cape Department Of Sports, Recreation, Arts & Culture) Mandie Van Der Spuy (Standard Bank) Bongani Tembe (National Arts Council)

National Arts Festival Representatives: Tony Lankester (CEO), Ismail Mahomed (Festival Director), Kate Axe Davies (Fringe Manager)

Media Representative Gilly Hemphill

INDEX TO THE 2010 MAIN PROGRAMME 18 Strings 4.48 Psychosis

A Scene at the Sea a.s.k. Trio Adam Haupt: Zubz vs Bok van Blerk Addio Uncle Tom Aernout Zevenbergen: Storytelling and Masculinity Aernout Zevenbergen: Spots of a Leopard Africa Addio African Vitality After The Rain Agatha Akasha Ali Hlongwane: Sharpville Day Alice in Wonderland Amathole Angeli e Demoni Anti Clock Antichrist Anton Krueger: Book Launch Experiments in Freedom Anton Krueger: Sunnyside Sal Art of the Duo Ashley Westaway: South Africa 2010 August in the Water

98 93 48 50 116 47 114 119 47 55 48 46 68 115 48 108 109 44 42 119 119 54 114 48

Bach Goldberg Variations Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Ballet Bonanza Band on the Run Beauty of the Voice, The Beckett Trilogy, The Big Butt Girls, Hard-headed Woman Biko - The Quest for a True Humanity Bjørn Alterhaug Quintet Black God White Devil BLK Sonshine Blood of Hussain, The Borderline Born of Fire Braff Blaser Duo Bravura! Bright Star Burden of Dreams

75 43 16 92 52 34 40 84 56 47 72 44 87 44 56 73 42 47

Cape Jazz Spectacular

51 64

Cape Philharmonic Orchestra

Carmen Celebrating Chopin Cello-Piano Duo Celso Duarte & Ensemble Children, The Chris Harvie: Ambling in Anglophone Africa Chris Harvie: Do not take this Road Chris Thurman: Guy Butler Chris Thurman: Sport versus Art Chris Thurman: Sport versus Art A South African Contest Chromophobia Cinema City Breath Claire Angelique Talks Coraline Craig Higginson: Last Summer

16 97 77 69 46 115 119 119 119 116 46 15 49 45 48 119

Feya Faku/Malcolm Braff 58 Films Must be Physical 88 Florian Uhlig Solo Piano Recital 74 Football Diaries, The 29 Football Football 36 Fragmented Prisms! 105 From Subject to Citizen: Panel Discussion 117

Gala Concert Game/s Gatecrash Ghost Writer, The Giant Match, The Girl in the Yellow Dress, The Godforsaken Gradiva

Hatched Dale Hefer: Sustainable Marketing

117 Danilo Pérez 52 Danilo Pérez meets Sibongile Khumalo Again 52 Darius Brubeck and Barney Rachabane 53 Darius Brubeck and Barney Rachabane with Jari Perkiömäki 54 Dead Media 89 District 9 49 Dogs of the Blue Gods 92 Down Terrace 43 Dr Georg Fodor: 115 Dr Peter Merrington: Depth 115 Dr Peter Merrington: Extension 115 Dr Vivienne Russell: The Neurobiology of ADHD 115 Duetenori 76

Heart of Darkness Hello & Goodbye Hell’s Ground Hunger Strike

66 103 54 42 112 39 43 48 96 47 35 49 103

I am Here

95 Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The 48 Immaculate Conception 44 Immortal, The 45 Inﬁnite Justice 44 Innocent 42 Inscrutable 19 Inventions for Five 55 Inxeba Lomphilisi (The Wound of a Healer) 25 Iracema - An Amazonic Shag 47 Is Hip-Hop Transforming SA Music: Panel discussion 117

Eastern Cape All-stars

59 Eastern Cape Cultural Ensemble 22 Eastern Cape Indigenous Orchestra 79 Ecstacy and Irony of Dimitry Shostakovich, The 100 Eden and After 45 Endgame 80 Eric Vloeimans & Andile Yenana 56 Evolution or Revolution: Panel Discussion 118

False Note, The Fantorro Fata Morgana

46 46 47

Jaberwocky

46 Jari Perkiömäki 54 Jazz Jam 53 Jeremy Joseph Organ Recital 78 Jinnah 44 Jozi 49 Judge Mervyn King: Sustainable Organisations 118 Judith Sephuma Unplugged 60 Justice Albie Sachs: The Strange Alchemy 115

Karen Zoid

Keiskamma Arts Project’s African Guernica 81 Keith Coats: Sustainable Leadership 117 Krunch 94

Other Side of the Underneath, The Ouroboros

Leaving Leonardo’s Diary Let the right one in Like Show Business Lion has Seven Heads, The London River Long Live the Dead Queen Long Street Looking for Eric Louis Mhlanga Lyricists, The

Makoya Makaraba Exhibition Man of La Mancha Man of the Atlantic, The Man to Man Man up a Tree Man who Lies , The Mantra Marcus Wyatt Quartet Melanie Scholtz - The Folks who Feel Jazz Melanie Scholtz and the Love Apples: Connected Melissa Stein: Hetero Norms: Why we must out them Mikki van Zyl & Melissa Stein: Prize and the Price Mikki van Zyl: Same Sex Marriages in Africa Misty Kid of Wind - The Glass Cape Monishia Schoeman Monnamolorra: The Eyes of Night Moreira Project, The Moses Mother of Tears My Black Little Heart My First Sony

Nanda Soobben: Sport Cartoons Neal Collins: A Game Apart Night Shifting North Sea Big Band

Oliver Mtukudzi

46 42 46 43 104 47 42 83 49 43 101 54 118 27 46 33 111 45 67 55 56

Paul Maylam: 2010, The Forgotten Centenary Paul Zerdin Peace. Love. Recycle Politics of Fifa: Panel Discussion, The Politics of Transformation, The: Seminar Prisoners of Strange

57 114 61 103 117 117 57

Quentin E Williams: Multilingualisn in Globalization

116

Random Acts 106 Reclaiming the P... Word 105 Reﬂections in Reverence and Remembrance 59 Relaas... 82 Rhinoceros 46 Riaan Manser: Around Africa on my Bicyle 119 Riaan Manser: Courage, Perseverance, Attitude 115 Rivonia Trial 38 Road, The 43 Rubber 106 Rus Nerwich 59

53 114 119 114 48 116 102 50 96 49 45 94 118 116 104 56 60

Symphony Concert

Taiwa Youth Jazz Band Paris-Joburg Project

Le Navire Night

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Samson and Delilah Samson Diamond in Concert San School/Youth Jazz Bands Self, Sexuality, The: Panel discussion Sentimientos Separation Shamiel X: Hip Hop Activism Shared Legacies Sigwesile Silva The Zulu Silver Fez, The Sirene Skrapnel Songs of Migration Soundtrack for a Revolution South African National Youth Orchestra Standard Bank National Schools’ Big Band Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band Standard Bank Young Artist Quintet Swan Lake

58 Tariro 95 Terrorism considered as one of the Fine Arts 42 Timekeepers, The 26 Towers of Silence 44 Tragedy of Richard III, The 24 Trans-Europe Express 45 Tree Boy 28 Trek 104 Tribe 60 Truck, The 45 Tumi: Rappers R in Danger 116

Undoing United Colours of Yeoville, The

Vusi Mahlasela

110 49 71

Washa Mollo Woman as a Flower Wombtide Woza Andries?

91 46 93 106

Young Voices of Brandenburg

51 105 58

You’re Missing the Point Youth Vocal Celebration

42 62 18 53 114 20 43 116 90 86 47 49 46 37 41 43 99 57 58 59 21

INDEX TO THE 2010 FRINGE 100 Tongues 3Fates 3: Gods, Fate and a Librarian 3fates 3: Listen! The River 3Fates 3: Yes! 8 Minuets

A Dialect for Hope A Keiskamma Altarpiece A Teacher in the Bushveld A Vivid Demise A Worm in the Bud Acoustic Liquid Addo Elephant Park Tour AFDA Short Films Africa 2010 - Cheryl Curnick & Friends Africa 2010 - Sonnett Olls & Friends African Animal Tales African Rhythms and Movements African Stories, Aaah! African Widow Afro-Fusion After School Air Talk Ajudicator Number 3 Part 1 Akunankedama / There’s No Orphan All In All Along Came U Ama-No-Gawa Anne-Marie Burger Another ‘Dal’ Story Anthony Harris Arts and Crafts by Vukile Teyise Artscape Indigenous Orchestra Attitude Audrey Mbuyazi Autobahn Autopilot

Babybrouhaha

192 125 172 125 172 217 217 126 220 172 192 227 218 220 220 161 206 172 206 192 172 125 218 172 172 192 163 220 206 220 220 206 207 193 172 193 151 163

Backstory Bana Ke Bokamoso (Children are the Future) Bantustaned Beauty Therapy Behind the Walls Being Adam Bella Voce’ Chorale Belles & Beaux Betting On Grace Beyond Therapy Big Boys Don’t Dance Black Sand: An Adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffman’s ‘Der Sandman’ Blood Orange Blood:Shot “An African Dream Gone Awry” Book Launch: A Drawer Full of Flowers Bosman and Mynhardt: A Tribute Bosman’s Veld Maiden Boston Marriage Breed Bridge over Troubled Waters Bringing Back Johnny Dyani Broken Dreams Butlers and Bridesmaids

173 163 164 220 126 126 125 174 217 193 174 127

CAFCA Music Ensemble Cape Dance Company Car Boot Vendors Carinus on Beaufort Street

193 151 193 220

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Catch 68! Craziest Moments of Theatre Celebrate Africa – Gospel Music Concert Charting Africa: Charting South Africa through Song Charting Africa: The Singing Continent Chimanziart Chocolate Box: A Collection of Songs by Kristel Birkholtz Cinema Wow - Starring the Dahlings Cine-Mazing Documentary Shorts Cine-Mazing Short Films Colour of My Soul Colour Your Life Convincing Carlos Crazy Little Thing Crouse Kuns Cultural Evening with Olenka & Marco

174 217

Dance Spectrum

151 196 174 127 127 127 174 130 164 130 174 130 175 222 130 130 151 222

Dane Taylor Trio Darfur David Newton – Best of Fest. David Newton – Laugh David Newton – Politically Incorrect Death of a Dream (Ukafa Kwe Phupha) Decadence Dedicado Deep Freezing Deep Thoughts Dekaf Dinsdae by Morrie Diogo Art Dirt Do You Come Here Often Don’t Lose Hope Donvé Branch - Potter Down Memory Lane with the Yankee Brothers Dr Stef’s Sidesplitting Hypnosis Dr. Pocket’s Ocean Commotion Drowning Tear Drops of the Sun D-Seven: Fresh a Cappella

Egazini Expressions Eight Elementz Elev(i)ate2 Embeje ETC Crew Exodus Exposed Extra-Ordinary

Fair to be Unfair Film Acting Workshop Five Women Wearing the Same Dress For Generations Four Forty Free Range Friends From the Farm to the City

Gary Thomas Gary, the Tooth Fairy Ghetto Proverbs Ginsburg & Herman Goosebump Madrigals & More Graduation Rites Graeme Watkins Live Guy Buttery

203 203 220 193 207 219 218 151 222 174 207 222 217

196 130 161 215 196 222 151 209 164 175 196 222 151 164 175 178 125 175 196 226 222 196 130 219 196 203 151 196 199

Hamlet Hard Facts Hats Haven’t a Clue! Healing Through Heritage Heart Beat of a Dancer Hex High Diving High Rising His Legacy Home from Home Human Contact

175 130 164 161 222 153 215 132 164 176 204 176

I Had to Do It

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I Life Etyotyombeni (Life in a Squatter Camp) I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change I Need To See Myself I, Claudia Iain Ewok Robinson is Live! Ibhubesi (The Lion) If I Were You I’m Unique Impressions II Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth Indlovu People Ingcambu Zethu (Our Roots) Inspiration X4 Intlombe (The Healing) Into View Intsomi Kanombongo Intuition Inua Iphulo (The Mission)

215 209 176 176 215 159 176 209 222 166 161 153 223 153 223 177 177 166 215

Jabulile! Jenny Maltby Journey of African Trends Just Tap

177 223 209 153

Kaput! Karoo Moose Keiskamma Songbook Khokho’s Suitcase Kiss of the Spider Woman Kruispad Kumnyama Kubomvu Kung Fu Crazy

132 177 204 161 178 178 178 132

La Motsoga Pele La Voix Humaine/The Human Voice Late @ Cuervo Learner Husband Lekae Letswalo Les Bird @ the Annex Let’s Talk about Sex Light & Colour Little Poof! A Homofabulous Show Live & Kicking Local Artists Exhibition London Road Losing It Louwtjie Rothman Live Love Land Love Me Letter Luna Paige – Wonderful Life Lunch @ Cuervo

159 204 198 132 178 223 136 217 136 136 223 179 223 199 223 166 199 198

Madame President Musical

209

Makwacha Hipopera Malena Ma-Lindi: The Sex Strike Man Turn Life Up and Down Mandulo Enyanga Mark Sampson Feels Funny Mark Sampson’s Missing Links Mbeki and other Nightmares Mdaka Mein Soldat Meri Kenaz – In a Moment ...Miskien Miss Margarida’s Way Miss Texas 1977 Molly Bloom Molo Mimi Monkey Nuts More Fire, More Mlilo, More Desire My Fears, My Helpers My Grand (Ma se) Piano My Tale

209 166 209 136 223 136 136 179 153 179 199 179 179 199 179 223 140 199 223 209 159

Nampre Traditional Dance

159 140 179

NATV Live in Grahamstown Ncamisa! The Women Ndifunda Abazali Bam (I’m Looking for My Parents) Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum New Voices 2010 Nibs van der Spuy in Concert No Fat Jokes Nomvusi Indigenous Dance Normality Northern Dance Project Nungarin

Of Cats and Dogs On the Crutches On the Cusp of the Eremozoic – “The Age of Loneliness 2” One Luv – One Heart Reggae Show One Man’s Life One Shoe One-Way Open Spaces Our King is Gay and Our Queen is a Lesbian Outside the New

Pantsula For Life Paraphernalia Pascal Sings the Songs of Eartha Kitt Perfect Human (Ubumtu) Pianistic Imaginings Pick Up the Tab Pictures of You Pierrot Mc Clown Pockets of Grahamstown Poetic Licence Pretty Faces...? Pumelela Traditional Dance

Quack! Queen E and Her Entourage

Raiders of the Lost Aardvark Rattling the Cage – Not a Political Play Razor Tongue Reason of Being Reburn Red Earth Reﬂections Reﬂections Exhibition Rhino Search Tour

209 225 166 200 140 159 209 153 200 225 219 225 200 140 166 167 225 179 200 153 167 209 179 204 153 179 161 161 215 154 160 179 209 140 179 167 173 200 181 204 225 227

Rhythm & Beats Rhythm Falls Rivonia Trial Rob van Vuuren is Rob van Vuuren Rose Red - Beyond the Mirror Rubbish Mistakes Over a Mess Rumpsteak

159 210 181 140 210 181 144

Saam Op Soek na God Same But Not Different Sculptures by Wehrner Lemmer Sekhwenyane Shaggy... Shaka Zulu - Ilembe Shaman Shannon Hope – Art Pop Shattered Dreams Shirley Valentyn Shoe Lace Shosholoza African Dance Side Walk Fever Sitting Around the Fire Skin Secretary Snapshots of a Wedding Soar Like an Eagle - Anything is Possible Social Commentary Solly & The Messengers Solo Some Father’s Sons Some Mother’s Sons South Africa Then and Now South African Echoes Soweto Night of Dance Spirit and Bones Spiritfest Spirits Indigenous Music Performance Spot the Tune – Organ Recital St Michael’s Marimbas Staude Art Steel Drums & Bass Steve Newman Solo Steve Newman, Ashish Joshi, Greg Georgiades & Marc Duby Stilted Strictly Rob and Mary Super Gamat: Hie Kom U Ding!!! System Dop

219 167 225 159 144 210 154 200 181 181 200 159 182 182 182 182 183 225 200 144 183 183 144 204 154 210 217 201 217 217 225 211 201 201 167 154 144 167

Visions, Dreams and Secrets: Contemporary

Tears of Freedom

183 215 187 161 215 225 211 144 226 168 226 183 218 183 183 156

Waves When I Meet My Mother Wild Arts & Crafts Wiles Paintings Without Blood Words

Tellin’ Tales Telling Lies The Adventures of a Little Nobody The Archetypal Poet in Concert The Art of Expression The Auction of the Century The Best Man’s Speech The Binding The Butcher Brothers The Clay Soil The Clown and Mrs Fell The Disciple The Dust The Essence The Eye of the Storm The Human Voice/A Woman Alone (Double Bill) The Incredibles The Meeting of the Angels The Most Amazing Show with Corne and Twakkie The Pixie Bennett Band The Prophet The Rice Paddy Tour

The Riebeeck East Sessions The Servant to Two Masters The Soil The Sound Kiln The Strange Case of the Midnight Phantom The Urban Gig The Way Out The Web The Whale Show This is How it Happened This is My Home This Part Should Be Uncomfortable (Part 1) This Side of the Universe Time of Your Life Time Out Tin Bucket Drum Tokoloshe Come Again Tom Bateman Art Towards Alignment Township Life / Xperience Tracing Footsteps Traditional Dance – Kwantu Emthonyameni Transformation 2010 Trapped in the Past Tseleng: The Baggage of Bags Tshwane/SYSO Youth Symphony Orchestra Tumahole Heroes Tumi in Concert Twigga Mension Twist and Trumpet

201 187 211 202 186 198 187 147 163 215 168 168 226 147 187 168 147 226 202 226 188 160 156 156 188 204 168 201 202 212

Ubuhle Bomzani

212 212 202 226 212 160 170 160 188 188

Ubuntu Bethu Ubuso Basekasi Uhambo / The Journey Umlilo Ka Zokhela Umngqungqo Umsintsi Umteyo Unbelievable Under Mined Shona Sculpture and Painting Exhibition Vry! Vukuzenzele

226 188 160

Wacky Wizard Magic Show

163 156 212 226 226 170 188

Xhosa: Return Xpressions 2010

You Are Loved

189 226

“You Tell Me”

202 189

Zabalaza Music

202

183 211 187 147 201 187 201

2010 STANDARD BANK YOUNG ARTIST AWARD WINNERS MUSIC

SAMSON DIAMOND

The most important thing to do in any art form is to deliver what is truthful. For me as a musician, if I try and “bring” something I actually don’t bring anything. - Samson Diamond Growing up in the dustbowl of Soweto did not deter this dynamic young man from fulfilling his dreams to become one of South Africa’s most sought after young violinist. Little did he know the time that his talents will see him perform in front of presidents and for royalty or that Nelson Mandela, Tony Blair and the Queen would applaud his talents. For former president Nelson Mandela, Samson performed Meditation by Jules Massenet from the opera Thais and IV Toccata from the Partita for violin solo by Vytautas Barkauskas. Of course, it was the ever-enchanting smile from Madiba that was in itself an enthusiastic applause for this young man who walked to attain fame from Soweto to the other side of the globe. Samson’s first taste of music came from classes he took under the tutorship of Rosemary Nalden in Johannesburg. Thereafter, he studied in England, where he obtained a Master’s in Music Performance with distinction from the Royal Northern College of Music. Samson also studied under the tutelage of Richard Ireland, Pauline Nobes and the French violinist Philippe Graffin. As a determined student striving for excellence, he scooped several awards as began to carve his career. During his studies he won several awards, amongst which are the Charles Hallé Award, the RNCM Eric Nicholson Bow Prize, the RNCM Major Entrance Award, the Edward Heaton Scholarship and the RNCM Philip Newman Violin Prize. After studying in and touring Europe he has recently returned to South Africa, where he wants to help empower people through music to be ambassadors of excellence. He is a former leader of the internationally acclaimed Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble and has been privileged to have performed at the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall with the English Baroque Soloists and the Montiverdi Choir conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. Samson believes that the Standard Bank Young Artist Award is a wonderful validation and since was awarded to him at a time when he is returning to South Africa to develop an audience from differing ends of the spectrum, both the classical and the light listener alike. There is no better time to award him the Standard Bank Young Artist for Music now that he has come back to the motherland to re-invest his talents, creativity and passion so that a younger generation of musicians can find the inspiration and the courage to travel a similar journey.

DANCE

MLU ZONDI

There is a challenge that keeps me working all the time, as there will always be new material to be added to the work and new structures to be included. That means I will never be out of work and will always have a space to crush my demons. - Mlu Zondi Mlu Zondi is the kind of young artist whose work speaks to our times and to our ever-changing world. Drawing from various sources for inspiration, he is able to move seamlessly between the stage, gallery and public spaces. His work challenge the boundaries of the dance discipline with his cutting edge performance art, video and multimedia installations. Born in Durban, Mlu is described in arts circles as being dynamic, thoughtful, considerate and a complex creator and performer. As a substantial thinker, Mlu creates work that is evocative as well as enigmatic and mysterious. This dynamic out-of-the-box performer is not the average ‘flash’ dancer, and will more likely sweep his audience away with a quiet anarchy and a profound intelligence than try to please them with superficial entertainment. Having grown up as an orphan, he has courageously drawn from his early experiences of living with an extended family and which fuelled his passion to perform. As an active Pantsula dancer in the 1980s and early 1990s, performances became the refuge that allowed him to stand out amongst a crowd and to be counted as being special. With no means to pay for his studies, he worked as a petrol attendant for three years after matriculating while hanging on to his dreams of wanting to study further. This tenacity and endurance is still evident in his work, in a context where the level of experimentation and risk in performance culture is rare. Having saved his earnings, Mlu completed a performance diploma at the Durban University of Technology. This opened the gateway to work in commercial and corporate theatre for a while. His career as an international performer and artistic director was launched when he was invited to do a residency in Switzerland in 2002, with an opportunity to perform at the Lausanne International Dance Festival. Mlu is unafraid to confront issues that still continue to haunt him. He embraces and confronts issues about identity, relationships, childhood memories and power balances in his work. He maintains that suppressed emotions emerge during creations and performances that become therapeutic. As a performer with a theatre background, Mlu has firmly built his reputation as a remarkable young artist whose style can actually be celebrated in a variety of artistic platforms. It is this kind of talent combined with a tenacity that is unbreakable that makes Mlu Zondi an outstanding role model for a younger generation of artists.

JAZZ

MELANIE SCHOLTZ

I think I bring to jazz a fresh approach in terms of my sound and interpretation. I like the freedom jazz gives and I always try to use a combination of heart, technique, imagination, knowledge and freedom of improvisation. - Melanie Scholtz When Melanie Scholtz followed the influences of her musical family and started to play the piano at age 5, it was inevitable that she was going to become a star. When she turned 16, she enrolled for a singing class at the EOAN Group in Cape Town. This was her start to her journey as a songbird and which would take her through the University of Cape Town College of Music to study a Performers’ Diploma in Opera, from where she graduated Cum Laude in 2000, to become one of South Africa’s most celebrated young voices. While studying opera and classical singing, Melanie continued to listen to and sing jazz, and is today an incredibly versatile singer in jazz, pop, classical, R&B or electronica. She has worked with the cream of South Africa’s musicians; Jimmy Dludlu, Sibongile Khumalo and Judith Sephuma, amongst others. In 2002, Melanie walked away triumphantly at the Old Mutual Jazz Encounters competition as Best Jazz Vocalist. he performed the South African National Anthem at the Presidents’ Cup in 2003 in front of a world audience of 1 billion people. Melanie is no stranger to international audiences. She has performed on live Norwegian radio as well as part of a Music against Misery concert in Holland in 2002. Audiences in Germany, Norway, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Morocco, Sweden and Austria have also been entertained by this young diva of song. In 2006 Melanie Scholtz released her debut full length solo album, entitled “Zillion Miles”. In 2009, she recorded her second album with Norwegian trumpeter and producer, Ole Jorn Myklebust. Apart from her own compositions and recordings, Melanie has also been collaborating and featured on Peaceful Moment with guitarist Jimmy Dludlu and on Which way to go with Electronic Dj’s Iridium Project. Both these singles went to No 1 on SA Radio. She has been featured on albums by Mark Fransman, Ivan Mazuse, Goldfish and Breakfast Included. From 2004 to 2005, Melanie lectured in jazz vocal studies at the University of Cape Town. Having started off as a child musician playing on the family piano, Melanie recognises the value of giving youth an exposure to a musical education. She is involved in Artscape’s youth jazz development projects since 2006. As an accomplished composer, lyricist, writer and director, Melanie Scholtz is a remarkable inspiration for anyone wanting to find a career in the music industry.

THEATRE

JANNI YOUNGE

There are so many ways we find to give form and expression to the inner workings of the mind and imagination, and each one of those is a step on the journey of being an artist. - Janni Younge Cape Town-based Janni Younge is on an upward trajectory to scoop awards for her innovative puppet designs and use of visual theatre. Her most recent accolade is the 2009 Fleur du Cap nomination in the category Best Prop and Puppetry Design. Janni also designed and made the puppets for The Fire Raisers a Magnet Theatre production that was nominated for a Fleur du Cap award. It is for her bold championing to consolidate visual theatre as a popular genre in South Africa that Janni Younge was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for 2010. Through her creative energies, she has masterfully allured young and old into the world of puppetry. Some of the productions which have been created by her company include Fineline, Elise’s Adventures in Congoland, Violet Rose Bite, Dolos and Thandi. Janni has a determined passion to bring together a diverse group of artists to collaborate with each other and to generate a special kind of magic that is created when different art forms are brought together. In 2003 she became chairperson of UNIMA SA (the South African association of puppetry and visual performance) and founded her theatre company Sogo Visual Theatre. Under her leadership of UNIMA SA, the Out the Box: festival of puppetry and visual performance was born. The festival is now in its fifth year. In 2008 Janni was flown to the UNIMA International congress in Perth where she was instrumental in the formation of the Africa Commission for Puppetry. Under Janni’s directorship, the activities of UNIMA SA have expanded. She is now CEO of UNIMA SA. Since founding her own company, Sogo Visual Theatre, she has produced several original works which have been performed widely at Artscape (2003) and the Little Theatre (2005 & 2006) as well as at the National Arts Festival (2005 & 2007), Out The Box festival (2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008), the Kenyan International Puppetry festival (2006) and the International Festival of Puppets and Mime (Greece 2008). Janni’s creative talents are being sought after by an increasing number of independent theatre companies. She created the puppets and masks for FTH:K’s Pictures of You, the life-sized Elephant parade puppets for Solms Delta, the puppets for The Tempest, a Baxter Royal Shakespeare Company co-production which toured South Africa and the UK. Janni also produced and directed Shooting The Rain, a community theatre production about the effects of global warming which has been performed across South Africa. She was also the head of the puppet department (studio and manipulation) on the television pilot for Z News (political satire) for which she was sent to France to train. From 2002 to2005, she was creating and performing as a member of the touring performing group, Odd Enginears. Janni’s passion, commitment, visionary leadership, boundless creativity and her determination to strive for excellence makes her an outstanding role model for a new generation of theatre practitioners.

FILM

CLAIRE ANGELIQUE

Any artist at some point, or more realistically at many intervals, is gripped by the icy hand of insecurity. Questions that seep into your creative consciousness are no longer conducive to new ideas or astounding revelations that can be transported into your chosen medium, but irritating stabs of self-doubt. Awards won are like glimpses into your audience’s psyche, they’re a gift that qualifies your endeavours. - Claire Angelique Durban-born Claire Angelique is the kind of artist who is rare to find. She is unafraid to assault her audience with a kind of film that is totally original and unique; and made with a total respect and an understanding of the film language. She is the writer and director of My Black Little Heart. The work is a dark and deeply personal narrative exposing Durban’s sinister side. It was produced by Denmark’s Zentropa Entertainment with cinematography by Slumdog Millionaire’s Anthony Dod Mantle. My Little Black Heart featured on the 2009 National Arts Festival’s Film programme, after premièring at the Durban International Film Festival in 2008. Claire believes that winning the Standard Bank Young Artist for Film has put her on the best natural high since being green-lighted into the production with her first feature film. She maintains that the award is a vindication of her potential ability. Claire studied at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and then at the Cape Town International Film School where she was presented with two awards namely, the Most Outstanding Student and Student Most Likely to Succeed awards before her studies were interrupted by her international debut into the film world. In 2004 she was the first South African filmmaker to be selected, from 3 600 applicants, to attend the Berlin International Film Festival’s Berlinale Talent Campus, and was also a scholarship recipient for the New York University’s Cannes Film intensive course, run by Robert Nickson. In 2007, she was a winner of the SA Script Institute award for the script of the feature film White Mountain, and in the same year she also bagged a Levis award for SA Music Video Directing, as well as a Mondi Shanduka Creative Journalism award. Her short films, documentaries, music videos and video-art pieces have been screened at galleries and festivals across South Africa and abroad. During this past year, Claire has been focusing her creative efforts on two major full length feature films, White Mountain and Upper Cuts. Claire possesses a unique ability to see the world in a way that nobody else does. Her individuality and frankness combined with her talents places her in a remarkable position where creativity has no boundaries and where the gateways never close.

VISUAL ART

MICHAEL MacGARRY

This award allows me a space to produce unique works independent of the hegemony of the gallery system, coupled with a real budget and a national platform. It is also an unsolicited award rather than an open entry competition, which seems to be the norm for South African corporate patronage of the arts. All of these aspects differentiate the award from any other in the country. - Michael MacGarry This 31 year old Johannesburg-based visual artist, graphic designer and author draws from various creative wells to unpack and critically analyze contemporary socio-political and economic narratives on the African continent through his visual creations. From a young age he has always wanted to work across a number of creative fields, from visual art, to design and writing. Now as an adult he is able to integrate diverse elements to produce dense, theatrical and fictional hybrids. Michael’s genius rests in the particular way that he is able to transform a recognisable object into something completely different while maintaining that in its new reality it is still recognisable. At times subtle, at others radical, the new objects that he creates are hypnotic, plausible, clever and tantalising that the audience can never look at any of his sources in the same way again. Often the audience is torn between the fact and Michael’s alternative. Michael holds a Masters Degree in Fine Art from the University of the Witwatersrand, and began his graphic design career in 2000 in Dublin, before moving to London in 2002 to work as a graphic designer. In 2003 he returned to South Africa, and joined The Trinity Session as manager of The Premises Gallery. In 2006 he joined Fever Identity Design in Johannesburg as a graphic designer. Michael is a member of the Johannesburg-based visual art collective Avant Car Guard, who have shown at a national and international level for several years. In partnership with Zander Blom, Michael is also a member of visual arts collaborative Blom & MacGarry Presents. Michael’s art has travelled to Germany, the UK and the USA. His work is housed in private and corporate collections both locally and abroad, including the Seattle Art Museum and the Johannesburg Art Gallery. Michael’s work has been acknowledged and awarded in a range of arts circles. In 2009, he was a finalist for a Loerie Award (Publication Design) and for the SOUTH Design Awards. In 2008 he was a finalist for the MTN New Contemporaries Award. He was awarded a Full Merit Scholarship from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2005, and a National Arts Council Individual Artist Grant in 2004. Michael recently wrote, designed and illustrated a 180-page monograph and reference book on South African graphic design, titled Skill Set One - A Primer in South African Graphic Design. He is regularly published in several magazines including: Art South Africa, Design Indaba, One Small Seed, Stage and House & Leisure. Michael is also co-publisher, with Lloyd Gedye, of The Pavement Special, a tri-annual magazine dedicated to independent South African music.

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Sololique Projacts presents

CINEMA choreographed by Mlu

Zondi 2010 Standard Bank Young Artist for Dance Mlu Zondi has a refreshingly contemporary choreographic signature which has earned him a sought after reputation as a dynamic, out-of-the-box performer. He is able to move seamlessly between the stage, gallery and public spaces. His work challenges the boundaries of the dance discipline with his cutting edge performance art, video and multimedia installations. In Cinema, he showcases his virtuosity of incorporating dance, text, performance art, theatre, video, installations and interactivity to produce a riveting experience of moving images with painterly qualities in 5D.

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Instead of being observers, the audience is invited to take a participatory role with an array of characters juxtaposed within the background of a variety of issues dealing with culture versus modernity. Through the use of dance, the antagonists simplify the complex situations in the plot. The startling result is a simpler engagement with the issues. With the use of video, the characters are allowed to manoeuvre between the real and the imagined life creating performances that are narrative with tendencies towards the abstract through repetition and length. The use of colour, installation and landscape manifests painterly effects while space is incorporated into the installation as a key element in the narrative structure. By immersing his audiences on different sides of a performance art installation, the interaction is much richer. Each side offers a different narrative with live and recorded performances that are blended to create 5D effects. Cinema is an afďŹ rmation of a young artist whose talents can be celebrated on a variety of artistic platforms.

DANCE

TRANSNET GREAT HALL MONDAY 21 JUNE TUESDAY 22 JUNE WEDNESDAY 23 JUNE AGE RESTRICTION: DURATION: TICKETS:

18:30 10:00 & 14:00 14:00 & 18:30 PG 12+ 1 hour R46 (Full) R44 (Discounted) R30 (Student/Scholar)

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Cape Town City Ballet presents

CARMEN & BALLET BONANZA BALLET BONANZA Production: Elizabeth Triegaardt Lighting: Shamiel Abrahams Accompanied by the CAPE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA A treat for lovers of true classical ballet, featuring highlights of the classics, including the popular Don Quixote pas de deux, and extracts from Flower Festival at Genzano and La Bayadere.

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The programme is designed to showcase the talent of this 75-year old company and emphasises the beauty and athleticism of this ageless art form – ballet, the ultimate sport!

CARMEN with the

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The ballet, Carmen, reﬂects Veronica Paeper’s dramatic interpretation of the love triangle between the sultry Carmen, the dashing toreador, Escamilo, and the naïve soldier, Don José.

Conductor Naum Rousine Choreography Veronica Paeper with Music: Georges Bizet Director Elizabeth Triegaardt Music arrangement and orchestration Michael Tufﬁn Costumes Peter Cazalet Lighting Design Shamiel Abrahams

The Cast

Carmen (the gypsy) Megan Swart/Laura Bosenberg Don José (a soldier) Xola Putye/Laura Bosenberg Escamillo (the toreador) Robin van Wyk/Johnny Bovang Micaela (Don José’s ﬁancée) Celeste George/Jane Fidler

THE STORY OF THE BALLET ACT ONE Outside a Cigarette Factory in Seville People of the town are gathered in the square to see the changing of the guard. Don José arrives with the new guard, led by Captain Zuniga. At noon the cigarette girls come out of the factory, Carmen among them. When she sees Don José she is attracted to him. The women return to the factory. Micaela arrives and conveys a message to Don José from his mother. However, he is distracted when Micaela leaves. The cigarette girls erupt from the factory. Carmen is involved in a ﬁght and is arrested. Don José is ordered to guard her, but she persuades him to release her and he himself is taken into custody. ACT TWO It is a month later. Captain Zuniga, who has fallen prey to Carmen’s charms, is dancing with her. Escamillo, the famous toreador, enters and he too is attracted to Carmen. She is impressed, but Don José still consumes her heart and mind. On Don José’s arrival Carmen attempts to seduce him. A bugle call summons him. Now furious, Carmen taunts him with placing duty above his love for her. Captain Zuniga is about to take Carmen into his arms when Don José in a jealous rage attacks his ofﬁcer and wounds him. Don José, now hopelessly compromised, is forced to join a band of smugglers.

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Scene II: Outside the Bull Ring The spectators await the arrival of the toreadors. Don José is in the crowd. As the procession enters the bullring, Carmen and Don José confront each other for the last time.

MANAGEMENT Executive Chairperson: Prof. Elizabeth Triegaardt Ballet Master: Keith Mackintosh Cape Town City Ballet has a long and illustrious history, starting with the establishment of Dulcie Howes’ UCT Ballet Company in 1934. This company consisted of students of the UCT Ballet School dancing in the corps de ballet, with staff members and professional dancers performing the leading roles. With the establishment of the four Performing Arts Councils in South Africa and their attendant companies, such as the 60-strong CAPAB Ballet under the direction of David Poole, an era of plenty was born, and large-scale lavish productions mounted with occasional tours to venues such as the Guy Butler Theatre in the Monument in Grahamstown, the Civic Theatre in Johannesburg and the Port Elizabeth Opera House. In 1994 notice was given that all funding from Central Government would cease and that performing companies should become independent of their parent bodies. The Capab Ballet Company consequently became a non-proﬁt organisation and is now known as the Cape Town City Ballet, administered by a Board of Directors under the chairmanship of Prof. Elizabeth Triegaardt, also Director of the UCT School of Dance.

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ACT THREE Scene I: A Cave in the Mountains Although Carmen’s passion for Don José is on the wane, he is still desperately in love with her.

Mercedes and Frasquita are telling fortunes using cards. Carmen turns a card – death! Escamillo arrives and invites Carmen and the others to a bullﬁght. An infuriated Don José challenges Escamillo and a ﬁght ensues. The smugglers separate them and Escamillo departs. Micaela is discovered in the cave and she persuades Don José to return to his mother who is dying. Reluctantly he accompanies her.

BALLET

GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT CARMEN

GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT BALLET BONANZA

FRIDAY 25 JUNE SATURDAY 26 JUNE DURATION: TICKETS:

SATURDAY 26 JUNE 11:00 DURATION: 1 hr TICKETS: R68; R66; R66 (Full Price) R58; R56; R54 (Discounted) R48; R46; R38 (Student/Scholar)

19:00 19:00 2 hrs (including intervals) R74; R64; R54 (Full Price) R72; R62; R52 (Discounted) R72; R54; R38 (Student/Scholar)

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The Dance Forum presents

SAN

choreographed by Vincent

Sekwati Koko Mantsoe “Vincent Mantsoe redeﬁnes what theatre dance can be – in any context.” – Adrienne Sichel (South African dance critic) The journeys and the spirits of the Khoi-San people inspire San. The San are the food gathering and the hunting aboriginal inhabitants of the southern African plains. They are known as the world’s oldest surviving culture and whom many believe are connected to the origins of humanity. These nomadic people are ‘the living people of the desert’ in southern Africa. This dance performance is a continuation of their journey. It is an extension of their spirit, a depiction of a different life form shaped into a different look, taste and smell, with a unique identity in the face of colonialism and globalisation.

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San is about change – the change that occurs within all of us, emotionally, physiologically and as a society as a consequence of time passing. The visual simplicity of the image created by hanging ropes strung across the stage, like a spider web under which the dancers perform, draws you into the warm ambience creating an earthy effect. The movement is soft and slow and the dancers barely interact with each other, each outwardly in his or her own world, yet the unison work is captivating and highlights themes of the individual versus the group. Within each framework the interpreters give a personal journey, accompanied by dialogue with the others. It is a journey that takes the interpreter to the end of a couplet in which another replies about the same journey that has been travelled. “San takes us back to our roots as human beings. It takes us back to the earth. And, oh, what a visceral and invigorating journey it is.” – Rahiem Wisgary Citizen The ‘poetry’ of the music is a key factor in the choreography. It works with the sensibility to melodies in the dancers’ bodies, the space and distance in the music, its intentions and its influences. The great Persian poet, Mawlana Jalal Ad-din Balkhi Rumi, born in Afghanistan, inspired the musical score. The composition of The passion of Rumi takes the singer Shahram Nazeri on a poetic journey of life; accompaniment is by his father, Hafez Nazeri, on the Persian lute. One does not need to understand the words in order to appreciate the transformation of a language that speaks to the pure emotions. It is said that monophonic melodies dressed in harmony make full glorious coats which are instantly accessible to the ears of other cultures – be they western or African. The instruments that are played in the compositions are mainly the Kamancheh (violin), Barbat (lute), Tar (long-necked lute) and Daf (frame drum) together with voices and vocals that give the poetry of music a sense and a far distance of discovery. With grateful thanks to: Co-Production: Centre National de Danse (CND Paris Pantin-France), Theatre dÀurillac (France), National Dance Project (NDP-USA) and Association Noa-Cie Vincent Mantsoe With the support from: Conseil Regional dÀuvergne, Conseil General de lÀllier (FRANCE), IFAS-Institut Fracais dÀfrique du Sud, Ambassade de France in Johannesburg and Theatre de Cusset (FRANCE) and Dance Forum/FNB Dance Umbrella, Johannesburg

DANCE ALEC MULLINS

THURSDAY 24 JUNE FRIDAY 25 JUNE SATURDAY 26 JUNE DURATION: AGE RESTRICTION: TICKETS:

12:00 12:00 & 18:30 12:00 & 18:30 1 hour All R44 (Full) R42 (Discounted) R30 (Student/Scholar)

Rehearsal Assistant Lighting & Set Design Costume Design Music Dancers

Cecile Maubert-Mantsoe Serge Damon Vincent Mantsoe Shahram Nazeri Aude Arago (France) Desire Davids (South Africa) Romain Cappello (France) Sara Cerneaux (Reunion) Vincent Mantsoe (South Africa)

The National Arts Festival presents

INSCRUTABLE Conceived and performed by Acty Co-directed by Gary Gordon

Tang

MAIN PROGRAMME Photograph by Gary Gordon In an age where mobility and an almost a-cultural fusion are the norm, Acty Tang is the archetypical artist for the global village. Having won the 2007 Standard Bank Young Artist for Dance, he has firmly established for himself, an artistic reputation that positions him as an avant-garde South African performer and choreographer. Having lived his early years “on the road” with no single-culture as his home-ground, he has been able to draw on the snatches of memories, sounds and ways of moving that were embedded in his life experiences. Acty was born in Hong Kong where he spent most of his childhood before going to Japan as an exchange student. He moved to South Africa as a pre-teenager. Often venturing into the deep strange places of the psyche that words cannot risk, his work disturbs and provokes. His signature is a refinement and a delicacy that pervades his work and his persona. Inscrutable is his most autobiographical work to-date. It is both an installation and a solo performance and it comes out of his engagement with the cultural and personal meanings of being Chinese, the beauty and the horror, the inheritance and the losses. While people everywhere are scrambling to learn Mandarin, Acty is searching for a personal calligraphy, to inscribe the loss in his family and the horrors in modern history. His solo work is distinctive for the unconventional use of site, and his butoh-inspired physical theatre, concerned with revealing subtle inner spaces, wrapped within a bold visual aesthetic. Inscrutable was first produced for the Rhodes University China Week in 2008. The audience size is limited to 35 people per performance.

DANCE

GALLERY IN THE ROUND MONUMENT MONDAY 28 JUNE WEDNESDAY 30 JUNE THURSDAY 1 JULY AGE RESTRICTION: DURATION: TICKETS:

11:00 & 13:00 11:00 & 13:00 21:00 A 45 minutes R42 (Full) R40 (Discounted) R26 (Student/Scholar)

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La Rosa Spanish Dance Theatre presents

SENTIMIENTOS

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The word “Sentimientos” conjures up images of passion and grace. It evokes moods which ebb and flow with the strumming of guitars, the rhythms of castanets and the stomping of feet. It paints collages of bright swirling skirts of flamenco and of men in dark black suits. In this dynamic dance production directed by Caroline Holden, La Rosa Dance Theatre offers the audience a passionate display of flamenco dancing that explores the broad spectrum of human emotions, ranging from fury to elation. La Rosa’s founder and director, Caroline Holden, is well known for her bold concepts and innovative choreography. In Sentimientos, she draws from various influences to create a visual feast that combines traditional flamenco and a contemporary flare. In essence, flamenco is the structured expression of raw emotions. On the one extreme, the deep songs – jondo – convey a cry, a lament or a protest and at the other extreme, the light songs – chico – are a celebration, often tongue-in-cheek and usually with a hint of satire. The middle songs – intermedio – are the narrative, recounting event and episodes. These bubbling currents of universal human emotion flow through Sentimientos, sweeping the audience along on an emotional journey. The production also features choreography by the Madrid-based choreographers Joaquin Ruiz and La Truco. The haunting vocals of Loreán Swartz and the five-piece band draw their inspiration from world music. The production in Grahamstown has been made possible with the support of the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund and the National Arts Council.

Direction and choreography Additional choreography Costume design Costume makers

Caroline Holden Joaquin Ruiz and La Truco Dicky Longhurst Dawid Stassen and Daravesh Ahtow

Dancers Pedro Aguilera, Maria Cortes, Nicole Kleinhans, Zara Mati, Carmen Pastori, Alexandra Parolis, Beth Shapiro, Ndumiso Tafeni, Luvuyo Simandla, Deidre Jantjies, Pabi Nhlapo, Thandolwethu Sam and Mkiwa Patosi. Musicians Flamenco Guitar Cello / Guitar Cajón Violin Double Bass Vocals

Bienyameen Robert Jeffery Robert Davids Christopher Jeffery Brydon Bolton Loreán Swartz

DANCE

VICTORIA THEATRE SUNDAY 20 JUNE MONDAY 21 JUNE TUESDAY 22 JUNE DURATION: TICKETS:

12:00 12:00 & 18:30 14:00 & 18:30 1 hour 20 minutes R46 (Full) R44 (Discounted) R30 (Student/Scholar)

The Dance Factory presents Dada Masilo’s

SWAN LAKE Twenty-ﬁve-year-old dancer/choreographer Dada Masilo, 2008 Standard Bank Young Artist award-winner for dance has become a ﬁrm favourite of audiences at the National Arts Festival. In 2008, her production of Romeo and Juliet alluded to both classic and modern ideas of love, prejudice, ill-timing, death and reconciliation drawing from popular culture without compromising the integrity of the classical legend. In 2009, her ‘explosive’ production, Carmen, once again played to packed houses delighting audiences as she took a generally politely veiled tale of sexual violence and manipulation, and split its seams wide open.

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Now in 2010, by taking the music of Tchaikovsky as her primary inspiration, she is once again preparing to mesmerise her audiences with her contemporary take on Swan Lake. Of the production Masilo says, “It is a work that will not take itself seriously all the time. It has to be fun, sad, strange, quirky and interesting. Most of all, I would like it to be beautiful….” There is absolute certainty that this ﬂamboyantly bold contemporary choreographer/dancer will once again snatch her audience’s attention as she takes to the stage accompanied by a cast of 11 young professional dancers, especially selected for the production. Towards Swan Lake, Masilo has already created a six-minute solo which premièred in her draft work Umfula Wamadada at the FNB Dance Umbrella in March 2010. Of the work Sibusiso Mkwanazi of The Citizen wrote “…Masilo’s interpretation epitomises what contemporary dance is…perfectly balances what is thought to be too difﬁcult to fuse: classical ballet and African contemporary dance…as usual, she is exceptional…” Additional music for Swan Lake is by René Avenant, Philip Glass and Arvo Pärt.

ALEC MULLINS

DANCE

FRIDAY 2 JULY SATURDAY 3 JULY SUNDAY 4 JULY AGE RESTRICTION: DURATION: TICKETS:

14:00 12:00 & 18:30 12:00 & 16:00 PG 13+ 1 hour R46 (Full) R44 (Discounted) R30 (Student/Scholar)

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The Eastern Cape Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts & Culture presents

THE EASTERN CAPE CULTURAL ENSEMBLE From the vibrant foot-stomping sounds of the AmaBaca to the dexterous animal movements of the Khoisan, the Eastern Cape Cultural Ensemble is an extravaganza of the indigenous cultures that descend from the rural hills and mountainous landscapes of the Eastern Cape to sing and dance with passion. Every sound, every movement and gesture is intended to take the audience on an exclusive journey into the heartland of tradition, rituals and ancestral homage.

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This is a celebratory feast of dance. It is vibrant and energetic. It is a whirlwind tour through the province’s cultural villages, heritage routes and its many oral traditions. You’ll be able to feel the vibrations as the percussive sounds resonate from the ground as the dancers tread their rhythmical feet. You’ll feel the denseness of the air as the sounds of whistles beautify the atmosphere. The dancers balance the intent of their performances between ritual and enjoyment, “Igubu litsh’ intsholo, umlenz’ awauzinzi”, tempting you to want to join in and dance along with them. Embodied in multi-layered textures, the dancers are an assembly of vitality. The fifty-five talented dancers move as if they are woven together like a tapestry to tell the stories about the AmaMpodomise, AmaBomvane, AmaGcaleka, AbeSotho, Amagqira and the AbaThembu communities. Their costumes are adorned in colour and fine indigenous craftwork. The intricate beadwork and embroidery is a feast for the eye.

This rhythmical potpourri reﬂects the Eastern Cape Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture’s vision and its commitment to preserve its cultural legacies while at the same time creating an opportunity for multi-cultural diversity to harmoniously exist alongside with each other.

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While this is a celebration of ancestry, tradition and cultural legacies, the sounds of the Eastern Cape’s urban cultures are also allowed to filter through to showcase just how effectively the Eastern Cape has embraced the influences of its urban landscapes. The energetic enthusiasm of youngsters is shared on the stage with aplomb as the older and more traditional folks watch the youngsters render a fun-filled fusion of traditional Xhosa, Sotho, Khoisan, Pondo, Baca, Indian and Afrikaner dance styles.

18:30 12:00 & 18:30 1 hour 10 minutes R44 (Full) R42 (Discounted) R30 (Student/Scholar)

Sogo Visual Theatre presents

OUROBOROS Created, designed and directed by Janni

Younge 2010 Standard Bank Young Artist Winner for Theatre

Sound design: Neo Muyanga Wardrobe: Hillette Stapelberg, Mentors: Janice Honeyman (directing) Illka Lowe (set and costumes) Cast: Jason Potgieter, Cindy Mkaza, Gabriel Marchand, Tali Cervati, Berin Belknap and Alude Mahali.

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Adults in the distance are laughing and talking loudly. Glasses tinkle. In the foreground Andre the baby is crying and sucking on his hands. Mamela the old woman wakes up. She puts on slippers and takes tea to old Andre who is sitting at his writing desk. Mamela the woman, dancer, stretches. Andre the man clears his desk, sits down, lifts his pen and looks off into the distance. Mamela the baby is bouncing on Andre the old man’s lap. Andre the 5-year-old boy holds a present. He strokes it. He carefully opens the wrapping and slides out a book. Mamela the girl puts on her ballet shoes and does a few clumsy, childish ballet moves. Andre the old man pushes an empty wheelchair. So begins the dance of Ouroboros, the snake who bites his own tail. The Ouroboros (or Uroborus) is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle. The Ouroboros often represents self-reﬂexivity or cyclicality, especially in the sense of something constantly re-creating itself, the eternal return, and other things perceived as cycles that begin anew as soon as they end. Sogo Visual Theatre creates visually rich and exciting theatrical projects that convey meaning using diverse mediums to communicate beyond words. Ouroboros is a story of love, dreaming, imagination and death. A multi-plot, with six characters formed of different aspects of two people, it reﬂects interconnected relationships, the battles of growing and the complex beauty of the moment. Using puppetry, projection and movement, the play paints images as it moves through time and space, weaving together the lives of its two main characters as they encounter themselves and each other.

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THEATRE 12:00 12:00 & 18:30 10:00 & 16:00 12 year + 1 hour R46 (Full) R44 (Discounted) R30 (Student/Scholar)

THE RSTC (REALLY SMALL THEATRE COMPANY) presents

Direction, Set and Lighting Design by Fred Abrahamse Costume Design by Marcel Meyer Photography by Fiona Macpherson Cast: Darron Araujo, David Dennis and Marcel Meyer “Since I cannot prove a lover... I am determinèd to prove a villain” Was Richard truly the villain as so often depicted or, did he have good qualities both as a man and a ruler?

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Tradition represents Richard as deformed but extant portraits show an intellectual face and do not indicate any deformity. While Richard might have had some defect, perhaps his true imperfection lay in his inner deformity and the way he viewed the world around him. Richard’s controversial life and reign have sustained a 500-year debate and the play is as topical today as when it was ﬁrst written in 1592/3. History is ﬁlled with despotic leaders who have risen to power and then succumbed to megalomania, paranoia and corruption. Across the world today corruption and political power struggles are rife. The exploration of this theme and examination of why power corrupts is particularly pertinent to South Africa today. As Ben Jonson wrote; Shakespeare “was not of an age, but for all time!” RICHARD III will be played as a fast-paced political thriller utilizing the protean talents of this small company of three actors aided by inventive design concepts, striking visuals, masks, costumes and puppetry.

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18:30 12:00 & 18:30 14:00 & 19:00 2 hour (including interval) PG 12 years+ (V) R46 (Full) R44 (Discounted) R30 (Student/Scholar)

Magnet Theatre presents

INXEBA LOMPHILISI THE WOUND OF A HEALER

Directed by Mandla Mbothwe Cast: Faniswa Yisa, Asanda Rilityana, Thando Doni, Luvo Tamba and Thumeka Mzayiya. Magnet Theatre Trainees: Aphiwe Menziwa, Lusanda Dayimani, Nolufefe Ntshuntshe and Sonwabile Nhanha “Magnet Theatre has consistently remained on the cutting edge of South African art and culture” – Roger Lucey, e-tv

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Drawing its aesthetic from African traditions and urban rituals to explore the theme of identity and belonging, this new work from Magnet Theatre, Inxeba lomphilisi (The wound of a healer) tells multiple stories through an interdisciplinary, multimedia production that takes place along the N2 road between Cape Town and the Eastern Cape. At the heart of the production is a very old woman who has been on the N2 for many years. She is the conduit for other people’s stories – stories of departure and return. Caught up in these stories, she has lost her own but is constantly trying to catch and weave the stories together again so that they can make sense. Stories never stop flowing towards her. They come in many shapes and forms - as sounds, flowers, tears drops, bloodstains, images, or pieces of clothing. She struggles to connect them, to make them coherent, to repair the damage of endless separation; and as she struggles these stories become part of her. She endures the torture of waiting, the pain of praying for return, the struggle, the suffering of trying to understand what has been broken and what has been returned. They are the stories of ordinary men and women, forgotten heroes, poets and freedom fighters. Through the act of storytelling, the old woman resurrects what has been lost. Inxeba lomphilisi (The wound of a healer) is performed in isiXhosa but explores various strategies of translation into English.

THEATRE Movement Director: Choreographer: Musical Director: Multimedia: Drummer:

Jennie Reznek Ina Wichterich Nolofefe Mtshabe Sanjin Muftic Themba Pondo

GRAEME COLLEGE THURSDAY 24 JUNE FRIDAY 25 JUNE SATURDAY 26 JUNE DURATION: AGE RESTRICTION: TICKETS:

14:00 12:00 & 18:30 12:00 & 18:30 1 hours 5 minutes PG 13 years R46 (Full) R44 (Discounted) R30 (Student/Scholar)

Ocean of Sugar presents Dan Clancy’s

THE TIMEKEEPERS Cast: Roy Horovitz (Hans), Rami Baruch (Benjamin), Kobi Livne (Capo) Directed by Lee Gilat The Timekeepers is a story of men in a concentration camp who bond through lessons in watch repairs and a love for opera. The play is a moving and intense piece of theatre that looks beyond the relationship between the main characters to question isolation and understanding in communities. Billed by the British Theatre Guide as one of top ﬁve theatre shows in London, The Timekeepers has been touring to international festivals since 2004.

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Dan Clancy’s writing is a poignant and a familiar story that is told with quiet humanity and humour to illustrate an argument that the victims of the Nazi persecution during the holocaust were not without their own prejudices. The Timekeepers is a call for tolerance and understanding by reminding us that the Jews were not the only ones to suffer in the holocaust. In his 70 minute snapshot, Dan Clancy engagingly unravels a relationship between a gay German and his fellow prisoner, a straight Jew, in a concentration camp. The affair, both touching and life affirming, is delicately directed by Lee Gilat to deliver heartfelt performances from her cast in an intense piece of theatre by combining humour and poignancy with a remarkable skill. The Timekeepers sharpens the focus on a human story. Three men confined by space and time. One rediscovers his humanity. The other subtly reveals the quietness beneath his flamboyant mask. The third whose power and authority are more fragile than they seem provides support. Friendships of the deepest nature are formed between the most unlikely people in the most unlikely places during this very private holocaust of an outrageously camp and exuberant character and his relationship with his prisoner.

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TUESDAY 29 JUNE WEDNESDAY 30 JUNE THURSDAY 1 JULY DURATION: AGE RESTRICTION: TICKETS:

18:30 14:00 & 18:30 10:00 & 14:00 1 hour 10 minutes PG 12 years R46 (Full) R44 (Discounted) R30 (Student/Scholar)

The Timekeepers is genuinely funny and touching. It demonstrates how in a very unusual way, this internationally acclaimed production ﬁnds humour in the subject of the holocaust without trivializing it. It is a theatrical masterpiece that is tenderly told through a strong script, three talented actors and a skilled director who will leave you feeling that it was well worth your time spent in a theatre. The Timekeepers is presented at the National Arts Festival with support from the Embassy of Israel.

Catalina Theatre and TheatreBIZ present

MAN OF LA MANCHA The Tale of Don Quixote Performed at the National Arts Festival by arrangement with DALRO Direction by Themi Venturas Book by Dale Wassermann Music by Mitch Leigh Lyrics by Joe Darion Student / Don Quixote Student / Sancho Student / Antonia / Gypsy Musician / Muleteer / Padre Prostitute / Aldonza Musician / Housekeeper The Duke / Muleteer / Dr Carrasco Pimp / Muleteer / Gypsy Musician / Innkeeper The Governor / Maria Prostitute / Horse / Fermina Thug / Muleteer / Horse Prostitute / Muleteer / Gypsy Prostitute / Wench / Barber Police Captain Police Constable / Muleteer / Innkeeper Musician

The Catalina Theatre continues to operate by the generosity of Rainbow Chicken Farms (Pty) Ltd. This production is presented at the National Arts Festival with support from the National Arts Council and the Ethekwini Municipality.

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Cast: Cobus Venter Liam Magner Allison Grace Grant Jacobs Caitlin Kilburn Judith Hawthorne Ntando Ncube Lungelo Gwala Luke Holder Silindile Ndlovu Nomonde Matiwane Ayanda Khanyile Simthandile Mtolo Maya Spector Tamsyn Smith Professor Bhengu Demi Fernandez

TheatreBIZ aims to reclaim Man of La Mancha’s experimental roots and turn it back into the show it was originally meant to be. Written in the middle of the turbulent 1960s, it explores the price paid for the losses of Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion, two fundamental rights that are being threatened every day by governments and institutions throughout Africa. Dale Wasserman’s script used the classic novel Don Quixote as a jumping off place, as it originally told the story of Quixote’s author, Miguel de Cervantes and his courage in standing up to the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition. TheatreBIZ has set the musical in a new context where criminals and a few riotous students arrested after mayhem at the Ballito ‘rage’ at being held together in the overcrowded backyard of the Ballito Police station. All these years later, Man of La Mancha is still a powerhouse of a musical, with a rich, Spanishﬂavoured score by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion. Man of La Mancha argues, quite persuasively, that theatre and storytelling aren’t just important; they are a matter of life and death.

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VICTORIA THEATRE Choreography and combat staging Musical direction Set design Set Construction Lighting Sound Costumes Stage Management

Daisy Spencer Luke Holder Themi Venturas Jimmy Alberts and Themba Twala Themi Venturas, Romi Schumann and Lucia Mchunu Luke Holder, Themi Venturas and Sheree Smuts Themi Venturas and Margie Alberts Tamsyn Smith

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14:00 10:00 & 16:00 14:00 & 19:00 2 hours PG 12+ R46 (Full) R44 (Discounted) R30 (Student/Scholar)

Think Theatre Productions presents

TREE TREEBOY BOY

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Written and designed by NeilLovett Coppen Directed by Judy Hegarty Directed by Libby Allen

Cast: Ron Smerczak Michael Gritten Luc Hasbroek Manoushka Kraal Peter Court

Archibald Drupe Arthur Sprout Ben Sprout Jill Sprout Shadow Game Show Host Voice-over

Lighting Design/Production Manager Sound Design Costume Design Set construction Musical score Stop Motion Animation Sequence Editing Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Digital Sound Effects

Tina le Roux Tristan Horton (Open Source Studios) Neil Stuart Harris Bryan Hiles Guy Buttery / Karen van Pletsen Tessa Comrie Vaughn Sadie Nosipho Bophela Bryan Hiles IAMINAWE

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FRIDAY 25 JUNE SATURDAY 26 JUNE SUNDAY 27 JUNE DURATION: AGE RESTRICTION: TICKETS:

18:30 12:00 & 18:30 10:00 & 14:00 1 hour 15 minutes PG 8+ R46 (Full) R44 (Discounted) R30 (Student/Scholar)

“Tree Boy is an extraordinary feat, an exquisitely conjured marvel, a brave and enlightened piece of magic.” – Giselle Turner: Daily News Tonight The story of Tree Boy is something akin to a banyan tree, spreading its branches and sending its many roots into the earth. Within a simple narrative frame, the piece evokes the nature of a journey through time, in a time, through relationships, identity, age, growth, loss and healing. It is a story about remembering and forgetting, hope and hopelessness, Billie Holiday and barflies, B-Grade Sci-Fi and fireflies, trees and tragedies. Set in the South Africa of the 1960’s, the relationships between three men is told through employing a seamless mixture of live performance, stop-motion and digital animation and shadow puppetry. In a dreamscape of shadows, reflections, light and shade, the story is told through layers: images are conjured, developed, reduced. Tree Boy is a visual feast. Twelve-year-old Benjamin Sprout and his father, Arthur, a postman, are forced to relocate from their rustic property in the mountains to a burgeoning mining town in the Transvaal after the death of the boy’s mother. ‘Rykdom’ is a town located between fact and fantasy, an industrial hub, where man and nature are at odds and where monstrous constructs and gases are fast overpowering the population. When young Benjamin’s father retreats into the paralysis of liquor and memory, the young boy finds solace in an over-grown forest on the fringes of the town where he encounters an enigmatic elderly gardener, Archibald Drupe, with whom he discovers a new world: one in which story and hope sow revolutionary seeds of change in the boy. Tree Boy showcases the remarkable creative writing and design talents of Neil Coppen whose last production Tin Bucket Drum still continues to entertain and inspire audiences locally and abroad.

URBAN THEATRE PROJECTS present

THE FOOTBALL DIARIES Written and performed by Ahilan Ratnamohan

Played at close range, conﬁned in a small space and patterned into something approaching dance, Ratnamohan’s ball skills are enviable and entertaining …His narration is engaging and his observations on the ugly side of the “beautiful game” are acute. - The Sydney Morning Herald The Football Diaries is a meditation on art and sport in which an engaging personal story emerges with new dance, popular culture and contemporary life in Australia and Europe. Ahilan’s narrative, drawn from his own journal writings, combined with his virtuoso soccer skills, gives the audience an insight into an athlete’s experience of space, time and emotion. This is a truly original theatre experience, operating at the level of immediate enjoyment and wonder, with layers of social commentary and even philosophy creating a strong and lasting impression.

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The Football Diaries is an engaging cross-disciplinary solo performance with Ahilan Ratnamohan, a young Australian/ Shri-Lankan footballer who makes a direct and complex address to his intimate audience, taking them into a world where dreams and aspirations clash with jarring realities. He relates his endeavours to reach the games’ physical extremes whilst seeking and failing to gain a professional players contract in Europe. There is an intimacy and humour in his telling of the story that moves between biographical narrative, the science of football and Ahilan’s own recollection of recent historical football events. Inter-cut with this is movement phrases, an original blend of athletic virtuosity and football skills that create a new form of dance. Enveloped by sound and video, the experience is one of being on the ﬁeld, ready for a pass, and part of this unique and moving journey. Bankstown-Canterbury Torch Presented by the National Arts Festival with the kind support of the Australian High Commission, South Africa

Director Performer/Co-devisor Set & Lighting Dramaturg Sound Artist Sound Artist Technical Operations Production Manager Redevelopment & Tour Producer

Lee Wilson Ahilan Ratnamohan Mirabelle Wouters Alicia Talbot James Brown Lara Thoms & Frederick Rodrigues Joshua Emanuel Neil Simpson Michelle Kotevski

RHODES BOX SATURDAY 3 JULY SUNDAY 4 JULY DURATION: AGE RESTRICTION: TICKETS:

THEATRE 10:00 & 14h00 12:00 & 16:00 1 hour 5 minutes All R46 (Normal) R44 (Discount) R30 (Student)

Eastern Cape Government PROVINCE OF THE EASTERN CAPE

IPHONDO LEMPUMA-KOLONI

PROVINSIE OOS-KAAP

DEPARTMENT OF SPORT, RECREATION, ARTS AND CULTURE Private Bag/Ingxowa Eyodwa/Privaatsak X0020, BHISHO 5605

THE DEPARTMENT The Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture gives due regard to provincial priorities by ensuring that its mission caters sufﬁciently for youth, women, the disadvantaged and the disabled. The guiding principles for programme development are based on the 10-year Provincial Growth and Development Plan. OUR VISION A united, active, and winning province through sport, recreation, arts and culture OUR MISSION To develop and promote Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture for spiritual, intellectual, physical and material upliftment of the people of the Eastern Cape OUR VALUES ❏ Unity of purpose ❏ Respect for self and others ❏ Commitment to service delivery ❏ Loyalty to the organisation and the people we serve ❏ Work ethics ❏ Honesty

❏ Communication ❏ Equity The programmes of the Department are designed to render services in the following areas: ❏ ❏ ❏ ❏

Sport and Recreation Arts and Culture Libraries and Information Services Museums and Heritage

CONTACT DETAILS: MEC Mrs Xoliswa Tom Member of the Executive Council: Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture TEL: 043 – 604 4101 FAX: 043 – 604 4093 Mr B T M Mfenyana Head of Department: Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture TEL: 043 – 604 4019/20 FAX: 043 – 642 5309 Mr G V Mona Director: Arts and Culture/Cultural Affairs TEL: 043 – 604 4013 FAX: 043 – 642 5386

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TEATERteater presents Manfred Kargeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

MAN TO MAN with Antoinette Kellerman Directed and designed by Marthinus Basson Produced by Hugo Theart

Celebrated South African actress, Antoinette Kellermann, is no newcomer to performing male characters. She has played the roles of Prospero in Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Die Storm (The Tempest) and in plays authored by Breyten Bretenbach, Farensj in Boklied and Martiens in Die Toneelstuk. In Man to Man, under the direction of renown South African director Marthinus Basson, audiences can be assured of a gripping one woman tour de force that investigates the life of a woman who, after the untimely death of her husband during the economic disaster of the Weimar period, takes over his identity to make a living as a crane-operator at the factory where he used to work.

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This choice to become a man abandons her to the role of eternal outsider. From this position she observes the grand sweep of history, the rise of Nazism, the 2nd World War, the division and the reconstruction of Germany. Her insights from her wasted life leave her with many questions about love, the status of women, the value of survival and the nature of a male dominated society. In the hands of two masters of South African theatre, this haunting and extraordinary play promises to be a gripping and memorable theatre experience. Man to Man is a co-production by the National Arts Festival, ABSA KKNK and Woordfees

Translation: Music: Projections: Stage Management:

Anthony Vivis Braam du Toit Wilhelm Conradie/Benjamin du Plessis Tyron Hensel

RHODES THEATRE THURSDAY 24 JUNE FRIDAY 25 JUNE SATURDAY 26 JUNE DURATION: AGE RESTRICTION: TICKETS:

THEATRE 18:30 12:00 & 18:30 12:00 & 18:30 1 hour 15 minutes 12+ R50 (Full) R48 (Discounted) R34 (Student/Scholar)

GARE ST LAZARE presents the South African première of

THE BECKETT TRILOGY Compiled by Conor Lovett & Judy Hegarty Lovett from the novels Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett Performed by Conor Lovett Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett Samuel Beckett redeﬁned 20th century theatre with his famous play Waiting For Godot. His prose writing however was what he called “the important work” and central to this are the three novels that make up the Beckett Trilogy.

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In their remarkable stage version, Conor Lovett and Judy Hegarty Lovett have captured the essence of Beckett’s vision. Molloy, a crippled tramp, tells of the hilarious attempt to visit his mother and introduces us to one of Beckett’s most poignant and arresting characters. Malone is about to die and to while away the days he attempts to tell himself stories but he can’t quite get them to take off. Finally he loses himself in a whirlwind story that could be a cross between Tarentino and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The Unnamable then dispenses altogether with story, or so it seems. This is where Beckett’s vision is most honest and brutal yet full of beauty, as the unnamed narrator struggles with his own existence and how story cannot help him understand it any better. Conor Lovett is considered to be the foremost interpreter of Beckett’s words. In 2009 he wowed audiences at the National Arts Festival with Beckett’s First Love. Now, in 2010 the National Arts Festival in association with Gare St Lazare present The Beckett Trilogy – Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamble as a second opportunity to really savour his and director Judy Hegarty Lovett’s remarkable relationship with Beckett’s beautiful writing. Beckett’s Trilogy is presented at the National Arts Festival with support from Culture Ireland.

THEATRE RHODES THEATRE MONDAY 28 JUNE TUESDAY 29 JUNE DURATION: AGE RESTRICTION: TICKETS:

18:30 14:00 3 hours (including 2 intervals) 12+ R50 (Full) R48 (Discounted) R34 (Student/Scholar)

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Tripletake Productions presents Athol Fugard’s

HELLO & GOODBYE Cast: Michael Maxwell Dorothy Ann Gould

Johnnie Hester

“My debt of gratitude to Michael, Dorothy and Mark for giving two of my most cherished characters a new passionate and vibrant life; it is the biggest one a playwright can have.” - Athol Fugard

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Set in the kitchen of a railway house in Port Elizabeth in 1963, the play softly cauterizes the wounded lives of its characters. A brother and sister who have not seen each other for years, unpack boxes and suitcases in search of an elusive inheritance and in so doing unpack the memories and truths of their empty and damaged lives. The sister, Hester, has survived in Johannesburg through prostitution, while her brother Johnny has stayed at home to care for their crippled father. Both of them have lost or sacriﬁced their own dreams in the time since they last saw each other and this brief encounter is characterised by anger, hate and fear, with ﬂashes of tenderness and emotional subtlety. The encounter all but destroys any vestiges of familial love that have survived unacknowledged in their existences. Hello and Goodbye is classic Fugard set in the environment in which he grew up amongst the ironies, dichotomies and pain of South African life under apartheid. Johnny and Hester are considered to be among the greatest roles in South African theatre and have been played by luminaries like Yvonne Bryceland, Janet Suzman, Bill Flynn, Sir Antony Sher, Ben Kingsley and Athol Fugard himself.

GRAEME COLLEGE Direction Lighting Design Stage Manager

Mark Graham Wesley France Joel Sethlabi

MONDAY 28 JUNE TUESDAY 29 JUNE WEDNESDAY 30 JUNE DURATION: AGE RESTRICTION: TICKETS:

THEATRE 18:30 12:00 & 18:30 12:00 & 18:30 3 hours (including intervals) 12+ R46 (Full) R44 (Discounted) R30 (Student/Scholar)

The National Arts Festival presents the African première of

FOOTBALL FOOTBALL

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Written and directed by Haris Pašovi´c

There is a ball. There is a green pitch, or a part of the street, or a beach, or a park. There are the running legs. Fierce minds. Fast-beating hearts. Dreams. Memories. Histories. Fights. Celebrations. There are the disappointments. Failures. Tears. Anger. Cursing. There are the loyalties. Friendships. There are the betrayals. Sorrow. There is forgiveness and there is re-union. This is about football! The show explores through dance, theatre, video, music and technology the art of football. The strict rules meet chaos; geometry meets the wildly free movements in this simple game. What many humans describe as divine is – at the same time – the most accessible practice in the world. An international cast (Italy, Singapore, Bosnia, Slovenia) and Singaporean creative team make a high-pitched artistic team of this vigorous, profound and entertaining production. A surprise guest on stage makes it even more exciting. Co-produced by East West Theatre Company (Sarajevo - Bosnia and Herzegovina), Napoli Teatro Festival (Italy) and Singapore Arts Festival in partnership with Les Ballets C de la B and in association with Flota (Slovenia).

THEATRE ALEC MULLINS

MONDAY 28 JUNE TUESDAY 29 JUNE WEDNESDAY 30 JUNE DURATION: AGE RESTRICTION: TICKETS:

18:30 14:00 & 18:30 14:00 & 18:30 1 hour 30 minutes All R46 (Full) R44 (Discounted) R30 (Student/Scholar)

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Koen Augustijnen Justin Hill Phillip Tan Lai Chan Goh Casey Lim Andy Lim

Cast: Francesco Pacelli, Andrea Capaldi, Stefano Ferraro, Alessandro Schiattarella, Ibrahim Ouattara, Lee Teck Lum Terry, Mohammad Azri Bin Majilan Ong Chin Chye Terrence, Adi Hrustemovi, Miha Askerc

Willem Anker & Jaco Bouwer bied aan

SKRAPNEL

deur Willem Anker met Marcel van Heerden, Andrew Thompson, Jenine Groenewald 7 Julie 2005: ‘n Reeks gekoördineerde selfmoordbomaanvalle word tydens die oggend se spitsverkeer geloods op Londen se openbare vervoerstelsel. Een van die slagoffers is ‘n jong Suid-Afrikaner, Christiaan Rudolph de Wet Botha. Skrapnel is die skrapnel van Chris se lewe, losgeslane fragmente van ‘n ongeleefde lewe en ’n ontheemde generasie. Die toneelstuk vertel Chris se verhaal in ’n reeks kort tonele wat terugwerkend en assosiatief op mekaar volg, wat dan ook in gesprek tree met inhoude oor terrorisme, selfmoordbommers, bomtoneelondersoeke, skrapnel en organiese skrapnel.

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Die drama wil ’n groep nomades beskryf wat in ’n voortdurende liminale fase verkeer, waar die inisiasieproses of - rite nie voltrek word nie. Hierdie mense bly juis leef in die middelwêreld waar identiteit vloeibaar is. Die ruimte waarin die drama afspeel (youth hostels, restaurante, moltreinstasies en ‘n klerewinkel in Londen) wil juis dui op so ’n middelwêreld, waar geen vaste grond te vinde is nie, en ook nie verlang word nie. Die moltrein in puin is ’n veruiterliking van ’n liminale toestand, ’n stasie tussen twee punte. Die stuk wil ’n tydsdokument wees van ’n generasie Afrikaanse jongmense wat sonder wortels en sonder uitsig die wêreld invaar, nie op soek na iets nie, maar dwalend deur ’n globale shopping centre van seks, dwelms en visas. Wenner van die AngloGold Ashanti Smeltkroes en Aartvark toekennings. Skrapnel is aangebied by die Nasionale Kunstefees met ondersteuning van kyk-Net

RHODES TEATER Regie en ontwerp: Musiek en Klank: Beligting: Verhoog Bestuurder:

Jaco Bouwer Braam du Toit Michael Maxwell Pieter Hugo

SONDAG 20 JUNIE MAANDAG 21 JUNIE DINSDAG 22 JUNIE TYDSUUR: OUDERDOMSBEPERKING: KAARTJIES:

THEATRE 18:30 12:00 & 18:30 14:00 & 18:30 1 uur 30 minute (geen pouse) Ouer beheer R46 (Vol) R40 (Afslag) R30 (Student/Skolier)

THE SOUTH AFRICAN STATE THEATRE presents

RIVONIA TRIAL MAIN PROGRAMME

Written for the stage by Aubrey Sekhabi, Mandla Dube and Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom Directed by Aubrey Sekhabi

Paul Grootboom

Aubrey Sekhabi

Mandla Dube

“Africans want to be paid a living wage. Africans want to perform work which they are capable of ... Africans want to be allowed to live where they obtain work and not be endorsed out of an area because they were not born there. Africans want to be allowed to own land in places where they work ... Africans want to be part of the general population and not conﬁned to living in their own ghettoes… This is the struggle of the African people, inspired by their own suffering and experience. It is a struggle for the right to live. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society, in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunity. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and achieve. But, if needs be, my Lord, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.” - Nelson Mandela speaking at the dock of the court, Rivonia Trial (June 1964) This is the story about the infamous trial that led to the long imprisonment of Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and others. It was named after “Rivonia”, the then bucolic suburb of Johannesburg, where some leaders of the ANC were arrested at “Lilliesleaf Farm” in July of 1963. The farm had been used as a hideout by some key leaders of the ANC, among them, Nelson Mandela, who lived on the farm in 1961 when he was underground, disguised as a gardener and a cook. During the trial, in 1964, the accused admitted to the Apartheid government’s charges of the 221 acts of sabotage and the preparation for guerrilla warfare. Throughout the entire trial, the underlying question was whether or not they would be hanged, which would have transformed them, as heroes of the African opposition, into martyrs. Mandela and his co-accused were prepared for the worst but were determined to use the trial as a platform in which they can voice the suffering of their people. This culminated in the much famous speech that Mandela delivered from the dock.

THEATRE GRAEME COLLEGE SUNDAY 20 JUNE MONDAY 21 JUNE TUESDAY 22 JUNE DURATION: AGE RESTRICTION: TICKETS:

18:30 14:00 & 18:30 12:00 & 18:30 1 hour 30 minutes 12+ R46 (Full) R44 (Discounted) R30 (Student/Scholar)

Although the play is written and devised from actual court transcripts, it is not just a restaging of the original trial, but a dramatic work that serves to illuminate what the African people were ﬁghting for and amazingly, the bravery of those that chose to lead the ﬁght. As in Mandela’s iconic speech from the dock, the play will cover other areas outside the trial itself, like the events of the “Treason trial” that led to the adoption of the “armed struggle”, Mandela’s trip to other African countries and the UK where he had gone to train and to raise funds for the formation of the ANC’s military wing, “Mkhonto We Sizwe”, the personal lives of the Rivonia Trial accused, the outrage of African citizens and the international community amongst others. The whole play and story has been envisaged as a thrilling court-room drama that rings true and yet is didactically philosophical and profound about “Apartheid” and its concomitant results of mass human suffering. It will be thought provoking yet entertaining and complemented by multi-media presentations.

Citizens Theatre (Glasgow), Live Theatre (Newcastle upon Tyne) and Market Theatre (Johannesburg) presents

THE GIRL IN THE YELLOW DRESS Written by Craig Higginson Directed by Malcolm Purkey An exciting new co-production from the internationally renowned Market Theatre from South Africa and two of the UK’s most prestigious theatre companies. Set in Paris, Craig Higginson’s powerful new play is a dark, witty and sexually charged psychological drama that explores the relationship between Celia, a beautiful young English teacher, and Pierre, her French-Congolese pupil. Brimming with humour, rage and longing, this gripping play provides both a minute exploration of an increasingly hazardous romantic entanglement, and an insight into the tensions around class, race, language and identity that lie at the heart of present-day South Africa and beyond.

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Craig Higginson grew up and was educated in South Africa. After studying at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg for a BA (Hons) degree in English and European Literature, he worked as Barney Simon’s assistant at the Market Theatre for a year before moving to London in 1996. There he wrote for Time Out magazine and worked as a director, dramaturge and assistant director for theatre companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), the Young Vic, the Hampstead Theatre, the Almeida and the Oxford School of Drama. In 2004, he returned to live and work in Johannesburg. As a writer, Craig has published two novels, Embodied Laughter (Pan Macmillan, 1998) and The Hill (Jacana, 2005); his third novel will be published later in 2008. Craig’s ﬁrst play, Laughter in the Dark, was premiered at the RSC in 2000. He later adapted Laughter in the Dark as a radio play for BBC Radio 3 (2004). It won the Gold Sony Award for 2004/2005. He wrote Dream of the Dog for the National Arts Festival and the Market Theatre (2007) and wrote and directed Ecstasy for the Wits Theatre (2008). Craig is the dramaturge and Literary Manager of the Market Theatre. He teaches Writing in Performance at Wits. Malcolm Purkey is the Artistic Director of the Market Theatre. He is an award-winning theatre director and playwright, (Breytenbach Epathlon, English Academy Award, and multiple Vita Awards, including Best New South African Play for Love, Crime and Johannesburg). He is also a screenplay writer, teacher and academic (Fulbright Scholar), and a founder member and director of Junction Avenue Theatre Company, one of South Africa’s leading workshop theatre companies. Under Purkey’s direction, a number of signiﬁcant South African plays have been created. These include The Fantastical History of a Useless Man, Randlords and Rotgut, Tooth and Nail and Sophiatown. In the last two years, Purkey has directed a new production of Sophiatown, The Island, Mike van Graan’s Hostile Takeover and Ain’t Misbehavin’. His production of The Island has enjoyed two seven-week seasons in the UK, and in early 2007 toured the west coast of the USA. In 2007 Malcolm directed Craig Higginson’s highly acclaimed play Dream of the Dog and he is delighted to be involved with another new work by Craig.

RHODES BOX

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MONDAY 28 JUNE TUESDAY 29 JUNE WEDNESDAY 30 JUNE DURATION: AGE RESTRICTION: TICKETS:

18:30 12:00 & 18:30 10:00 & 14:00 1 hour 25 minutes All R46 (full) R44 (discounted) R30 (student/scholar)

Cultural Odyssey - Rhodessa Jones & Idris Ackamoor present

BIG BUTT GIRLS HARD-HEADED WOMEN Written and performed by Rhodessa Jones Musical Accompaniment and Stage Direction by Idris Ackamoor Additional music by Tom Waits, Public Enemy & Marvin Gaye THE CHARACTERS (In order of appearance) Regina Brown Mama Pearl Lena Doris

TIME The Present (The performance takes place in one single day) THE PLACE San Francisco City Jail

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Big Butt Girls, Hard Headed Women is based on the lives and times of real women who are incarcerated behind bars. The performance utilizes theatre, movement, and song to anchor words born out of the silence that is so particular to women who are waiting: women waiting for bail, for mail, for the latest word concerning her child, money from her man, the next visit from her sister, her mother, or the word from her lawyer. The theatrics are based on the question: “Is there a way to retrieve the lives of our sisters and their families?” There are children literally lost between the cracks of our society. In 1987, Rhodessa Jones was hired to teach “aerobics” at San Francisco’s City Jail. On her ﬁrst day, it became very clear that something else was called for. She had entered another world, populated by wild, wounded, crazed, cracked, carefree, dangerous, devious, destructive but colourful women: women wading in pain, wearing their displacement like some strange badge of courage; women who had met the “devil” and found him to be a very dull dude; misguided women who, with a bit of direction, could be running the world. The work called on all her faculties as an “art teacher.” As a creative survivalist, she used everything: aerobics, standup comedy, music, religion, chastisement, sign language, true confession games, improvisational theatre, and lots of physical expression, such as hugs and touching (which was against the rules.) She described the experience as being exhilarating, painful, outrageous and frightening, but always alive with honesty, mirth and generous humour. And, as much as the self-exiled and male identiﬁed females can, they accepted her. Some loved her, and others respected her, which came as a surprise to them. Idris Ackamoor is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, actor, tap dancer, and director. He is the Founder and Co-Artistic Director of the San Francisco performance company Cultural Odyssey. Idris’ primary instrument is the alto saxophone. An accomplished tap dancer, Idris’ signature performance is his uncanny ability to combine tap dancing with playing his saxophone simultaneously.

THEATRE VICTORIA THEATRE MONDAY 28 JUNE TUESDAY 29 JUNE WEDNESDAY 30 JUNE DURATION: AGE RESTRICTION: TICKETS:

14:00 18:30 18:30 1 hours 15 minutes PG 12+ R46 (Full) R44 (Discounted) R30 (Student/Scholar)

The Market Theatre presents

SONGS OF MIGRATION Compiled by Hugh Masekela and James Ngcobo HUGH MASEKELA & SIBONGILE KHUMALO as the lead storytellers Based on the original South African State Theatre production: The Rehearsal â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 100 years of South African Music

Singer Violinist and singer Keyboards Singer Singer Singer Singer Singer Singer Singer Bass player Guitarist Percussionist and drummer

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Cast: Kuki Mncube Tshepo Mngoma Ezbie Moilwa Bonginkosi Zulu Happy Motha Gugu Shezi Linda Thobela Thumbeza Hlope Nondumiso Zondeki Mr B Fana Zulu Ntokozo Zungu Godfrey Mngcina

Songs of Migration, a musical tribute to the great songs of migrants across the African continent, has been created by internationally acclaimed trumpeter, composer and lyricist Hugh Masekela and written and directed by award-winning director James Ngcobo. It features the multi-talented, soulful and dynamic Sibongile Khumalo. Following the discovery of minerals in Gauteng and other parts of South Africa during the late 19th century, indigenous people started to migrate to the towns that had emerged out of the mining operations dumps. These new migrants brought with them their music, traditional costumes, musical instruments, songs, ceremonies and dances. The prospects of work in a community where citizens could afford to pay to have a good time drew musicians to the rapidly growing golden city of Johannesburg. They left their ancestral homes and gathered in this cosmopolitan town â&#x20AC;&#x201C; assembling an extraordinary mass of musical talent. Songs of Migration rewinds the tape and tells stories about South African music and history, and promotes African music and dance. The production includes rich musical scenes on the train that was seen as a separator of lovers, breaking up families as it moved raw materials to and from the ports for imports and exports. This show is a musical celebration. We take off our hats to the musicians who captured this journey in song. It features songs by Mackay Davashe, Joseph Shabalala, Victor Ndlazilwane, Gibson Kente, Hugh Masekela, Dorothy Masuka and Miriam Makeba.

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Musical Director Lighting Designer Sound Designer & Engineer Choreographer Dance Captain Set and Costume Designer Stage Manager

Ezbie Moilwa Wesley France Freddy Malesa Greg Maqoma Prudence Lulu Mlangeni Noluthando Lobese Rapelang Leeuw

GUY BUTLER THEATRE MONUMENT SUNDAY 4 JULY DURATION: AGE RESTRICTION: TICKETS:

15:00 2 hour (including interval) All R74, R64, R54 (Full) R72, R62, R52 (Discounted) R72, R54, R38 (Student/Scholar)

BRIGHT STAR (UK/Australia/New Zealand 2010)

FILM Director: Trevor Steele Taylor Programme Co-ordinator: Aurora Drummer Projection Team: Janadie Cupido, Anthony Marx

Durations and age restrictions appear below the text Abbreviations: A = all; N = nudity; PG = parental guidance; S = sex; V = violence; L = language

Venue: Olive Schreiner Hall, Monument Tickets: R18

15 AMAZING

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A Special Selection of New International Cinema THE GHOST WRITER (France/UK 2010) Director: Roman Polanski Cast: Ewan McGregor, Jon Bernthal, Kim Catttrall, Pierce Brosnan Courtesy of Nu-Metro Roman Polanski is truly one of the all-time masters of cinema and like all great cinema artists (Peckinpah, Pasolini, Robbe-Grillet) constantly pursued by the “hounds of Hell”. A new Polanski film is an occasion and The Ghost Writer is an occasion to be treasured. With elements of his most claustrophobic work such as The Tenant and What? this gripping thriller about a ghost writer for an ex-British Prime Minister who begins to find considerable dirt on the man is a tour de force. Ewan McGregor refashions his pursue to become the creature that Polanski at a younger age would have played himself. The 77-year-old director won Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival for the film. Sun 20 June 17:00 & Fri 2 July 20:00 (2 hrs 8 mins) Age Restriction: PG 13

INNOCENT (UK 2010) a.k.a. Daughters of Eve/Silip Director: Helen Blizzard Cast: Harriet Neville, Paul Gilmore, Adrian Lukas, Marina Neil An impressive début film and a life-affirming story of a young girl’s resistance to being bullied by her classmates. Georgie is an artistic, sensitive teenager who loves her guitar and finds fulfilment in writing songs and depressing poems. She lives with her disinterested aunt, her parents both being dead. A clique of girls mercilessly bully her at school and when things get really dangerously out of kilter her path intersects with a middle-aged man who, sickened after a self-congratulatory high school reunion, is tormented by memories of one of his classmates who was driven to suicide by constant bullying. Important themes are dealt with and the film succeeds enormously making one by turns livid with anger at the pomposity of the school as an institution and immense engagement with Georgie’s problems. * We refer you to the programme of the films of Britain’s seminal female director Jane Arden

Sun 20 June 20:00 & Sat 3 July 12:00 (1 hr 30 mins) Age Restriction: PG 13 (V)

ANTICHRIST (Denmark 2009) Written & director: Lars von Trier Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe Courtesy of Video Vision Beginning in glistening beauty as in slow motion black and white, a naked couple passionately make love to the strains of Handel’s Leave me to weep over my cruel fate as the snow falls outside. As they climax, in an adjoining room, their two-year-old son falls to his death. The therapist husband takes his traumatised wife to a forest called Eden heavy with portents to come – a crow, a fox, a snake. ‘Nature is Satan’s Church’ and through chapter headings of Pain, Grief and Despair we are with them on a roller-coaster ride into a place where chaos reigns! Antichrist is anti-commercial, anti-art-house, anti-media. The ﬁlm re-invents cinema and in so doing re-afﬁrms the power of the visual image as poetry and philosophy with access to the viscera. Sun 20 June 22:00 & Sat 26 June 22:00 (1 hr 44 mins) Age Restriction: 18 (SNLV)

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Director: Jane Campion Cast: Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox Courtesy of Ster-Kinekor The intense and doomed relationship that developed between the poet John Keats and his neighbour Fanny Brawne is given lyrical treatment by Jane Campion along the lines of a traditional ballad. The result is a sensitive, unpretentious, eloquent ﬁlm about artistic creativity and its relationship to living. Campion’s view is that their world was light-ﬁlled, literally leaking light and although Keats dies leaving Fanny alone, the unique spirit of their love cannot be extinguished. Mon 21 June 17:30 & Sat 3 July 17:30 (1 hr 59 mins) Age Restriction: PG

LONDON RIVER (France/UK/Algeria 2009) Director: Rachid Bouchareb Cast: Sotigui Kouyate, Brenda Blethyn, Francis Magee, Sami Bouajila Courtesy of Video Vision When a woman who manages a small rural farm hears about the London bus bombing she begins to worry about her daughter and heads for the city. Simultaneously a Senegalese forest worker in France is concerned about his estranged son and leaves for England. Their paths intersect and different as they are they ﬁnd a common purpose in searching for their children. For his extraordinary performance Kouyate won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin Film Festival. Mon 21 June 20:00 & Sun 4 July 15:00 (1 hr 30 mins) Age Restriction: PG

LEAVING (France 2009) a.k.a. Partir Director: Catherine Corsini Cast: Kristen Scott-Thomas, Sergi Lopez, Yvan Attal Courtesy of the Labia A modern “Lady Chatterley” but viewed with both a very female and very French eye as comfortably married Suzanne seeks adventure in the arms of Catalan-workman Ivan. In the words of director Catherine Corsini – “I wanted to show a woman who dares to go for adventure. She won’t compromise in the least. Even her children can’t hold her back. I tried to show desire and its irruption in an ordinary, ordered existence. All psychology is eliminated and pure impulsion takes over, being that of bodies looking to come together or ﬂee.” Tues 22 June 17:30 & Sun 4 July 17:30 (1 hr 25 mins) Age Restriction: 15 (SN)

SAMSON AND DELILAH (Australia 2009) Director: Warwick Thornton Cast: Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson, Matjili Gibson, Scott Thornton Courtesy of Video Vision Set in the Aboriginal community in Australia this remarkable, almost wordless love story of two rootless, abused young people trying to find a life for themselves in the city away from the “reservations” is heart-rending. Samson is so brutalised he can sometimes barely see through the haze of his glue sniffing. Hard-hitting and sometimes painful to watch the film has a beauty of true compassion that shines out of the much-molested Delilah’s intrinsic goodness. The cast of non-actors are superb especially Merissa Gibson as Delilah. Tues 22 June 20:00 & Fri 2 July 17:30 (1 hr 41 mins) Age Restriction: PG 13

TERRORISM CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS (UK 2010) Director: Peter Whitehead Cast: Sophie Strohmeier, Liza Tsyzina-Whitehead, Samantha Berger Courtesy of Contemporary Films Adapting its title and theme from Thomas De Quincey’s murder text, this long-overdue return to narrative cinema by the great British filmmaker Peter Whitehead is based around a mesmerising psycho-geographical exploration of modern day Vienna. The film incorporates a record of the subversive underbelly of the city into a poetic meditation on conspiracy theory, ecoterrorism, time and cinema, retracing the story of The Third Man. Adapted from a trilogy of Whitehead’s own Nohzone novels, the objective and subjective becomes blurred as the film director merges with the fictional detective in a journey into the murky activities of covert counter-insurgency groups. Kaleidoscopic in intent, the film mixes Noh theatre, Victorian novels, Vienna after the war, opium, domain names and Jacob’s ladder “pitched twixt Heaven and Charring Cross”. Wed 23 June 17:30 & Wed 30 June 22:00 (2 hrs 20 mins) Age Restriction: 18 (SN)

LOOKING FOR ERIC (UK/France 2009) Director: Ken Loach Cast: Eric Cantona, Steve Evets Courtesy of Video Vision Ken Loach’s latest hymn to the common man gets under the skin of British maleness. If one has to programme a ﬁlm with football in it this is deﬁnitely the one. Ken Loach is the master of social realism and with Looking for Eric he has produced a surprisingly heart-warming movie. Eric Bishop, a forty-something postal worker and avid Manchester United fan has a life that is something of a mess. One night, alone in his room getting high he conjures up an alter ego, Eric Cantona, footballer of note, who takes on the role of a life-coach (played by Cantona himself). Wed 23 June 20:00 & Sun 4 July 12:00 (1 hr 56 mins) Age Restriction: PG

DOWN TERRACE (UK 2009)

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (Sweden 2009) Director: Tomas Alfredson Cast: Lina Leandersson, Kare Hedebrant Courtesy of the Labia There has been no time in history apart from the Victorian era when the “vampire” has been more popular and then, as now, teenage girls are probably the bulk of the market. The vampires themselves have got younger though progressing from the decaying Dracula through Buffy to the teenage bloodsuckers of Twilight. The little vampire in this stunning film “has been 12 for a very long time.” She is a pretty, extraordinary figure, waif-like and feral with a thick tangle of black hair. In the heart of one of Sweden’s most frigid suburbs, young Oskar, so pale he is almost translucent, is mercilessly bullied at school. When the little vampire moves into the flat next door and he “invites her in” the two lonely youngsters find a common purpose and the bullies are doomed. Thurs 24 June 22:00 & Wed 30 June 20:00 (1 hr 38 mins) Age Restriction: 15 (SNV)

SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION

(USA 2009)

Directors: Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman With: The Blind Boys of Alabama, Joss Stone, Richie Havens, John Legend Courtesy of Video Vision A compelling and extremely effective documentary about the Civil Rights Movement, the Anti-War Movement and the music that is a doorway to discussion about the absurdities of segregation and the puerility of violence. Music created a sense of solidarity for protest and the songs wind their way through the film forming the connective tissue that holds the discussion together. Spurred on to give a reality to what for his school-age daughter was “history” co-director Guttentag sought to make tangible that talking about “just wars” or any other euphemism that justifies violence is the path of the unimaginative. The film twists your insides and renders the times of protest tangible. Fri 25 June 15:00 & Fri 2 July 15:00 (1 hr 22 mins) Age Restriction: PG

GODFORSAKEN (Pakistan/UK/France 2010) Director: Jamil Dehlavi Cast: Annabel Wright, Trevor White, Nick Ashdon, Vernon Dobtcheff Courtesy of Dehlavi Films A ﬁlm of remarkable beauty tells the story of a fallen angel seeking redemption for failing in his given task to protect a child. Dehlavi’s elegant

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THE ROAD (USA/Australia 2009) Director: John Hillcoat Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron Courtesy of Video Vision The Road is a requiem for the death of our civilization devastated along with the planet leaving a world bleached of life and colour. It is within this world stripped of every certainty that a man and woman give birth to a baby boy. “Sooner or later” the wife predicts, “they will catch up with us”. “They will rape us, kill us and eat us”. Ten years later, the father (Mortensen) and the boy (Smit-McPhee) are on the road ﬂeeing the “they” referred to by his departed wife with whom he conducts an interior dialogue. Through a sprawling network of cracked concrete highways and a landscape peppered with ash and snow the travellers head for the coast and an un-promised hope of survival. Superbly adapted from Cormac McCarthy’s novel the ﬁlm has visuals invested with horror like old photographs, indistinct in the corners redolent of fading memory. Tues 29 June 20:00 & Sun 4 July 20:00 (1 hr 51 mins) Age Restriction: 15 (V)

BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (USA/Germany 2009) Director: Werner Herzog Cast: Nicholas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer In a post-Katrina New Orleans, Terence McDonagh is one of the few cops left in town after a mass exodus. In name only – a follow up to Abel Ferrara’s movie with Harvey Keitel refashioned by Nicholas Cage. Werner Herzog retains his power to amaze and, in Cage he might have found a successor to his legendary collaborator Klaus Kinski. The corrupt, backache-plagued, drugaddicted cop moves through a hurricane-ravaged, semi-ﬂooded city searching for a killer, with his behaviour becoming more erratic, out of his depth and out of his mind. An atmospheric ﬁlm that is rich and strange. Sat 3 July 20:00 (2 hrs 2 mins) Age Restriction: 18 (SNVL)

JANE ARDEN & JACK BOND It comes as something of a surprise when looking at British ﬁlm history to see how few female directors there were until recent times. In the early seventies Jane Arden stood almost alone as a female voice in a male dominated industry. Along with her partner Jack Bond she was responsible for three remarkable ﬁlms, which were thought lost after she took her life in the early eighties. Now meticulously restored, they are once again available to astound a new generation of audiences. We thank the British Film Institute for their commitment to the preservation of important cinema and the effort they have put into the re-presentation of these remarkable works.

SEPARATION (UK 1967)

Anti Clock (see p.44)

Director: Jack Bond Cast: Jane Arden, David De Keyser, Ann Lynn, Ian Quarrier Courtesy of Contemporary Films While Separation is directed by Jack Bond and based on a story by Jane Arden, Arden could be said to direct the film from within. The film’s ostensible narrative circles around a protagonist called Jane played by Arden who is torn between a husband and a lover, as well as being haunted by voices from her past, mainly her mother and her child self. The actor playing Jane’s husband also plays her psychiatrist, both men trying to reduce her to discourse on behaviour but here, the woman (Jane) is her own explorer of the troubling terrain of her own body and the bodies of others. Black and white film is randomly punctuated by colour as Jane lives spread-eagled on a bed, wearing a wedding veil next to her lover while the previous scene replays on a screen behind them. The soundtrack is fuelled by great music from Procol Harum. Mon 21 June 15:00 (1 hr 33 mins) Age Restriction: 18 (SN)

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Director: Ben Wheatley Cast: Robin Hill, Julia Deakin, David Schaal Courtesy of Magnolia An unexpected delight – a British film that is extremely funny, extremely nasty and extremely gripping! Father and son, Bill and Karl are fresh out of jail for an unspecified crime but they are obsessed to find out who snitched on them. They return to their terrace abode in Brighton where wife/mum does the traditional housewife thing but is not averse to a bit of rough stuff. It soon becomes apparent that this suburban house is packed with gangsters such as Pringle who takes his baby along on jobs, Karl’s hard-nosed pregnant girlfriend and a nasty piece of work called Eric. An auspicious feature film début for Ben Wheatley, chiefly known as a television comedy writer. They return to their terrace abode in Brighton where wife/mum does the traditional housewife thing but is not averse to a bit of rough stuff. It soon becomes apparent that this suburban house is packed with gangsters such as Pringle who takes his baby along on jobs, Karl’s hard-nosed pregnant girlfriend and a nasty piece of work called Eric. An auspicious feature film début for Ben Wheatley, chiefly known as a television comedy writer. Thurs 24 June 20:00 & Sun 4 July 10:00 (1 hr 30 mins) Age Restriction: 18 (VL)

camerawork circling the angel as he desperately juggles between two women – the drug-addicted pole-dancer who is the mother of the dead child and the new wife of the other woman’s ex-husband, whose child he delivers in a parking garage. Forever startling the images burn themselves on the mind, the bizarre mask worn by the pole dancer, the wounds on the angel’s back where his wings fell off when he became “Godforsaken” and the breath-taking last frame when the angel takes a decision of monumental import. Fri 25 June 20:00 & Tues 29 June 17:30 (1 hr 21 mins) Age Restriction: PG 13

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNDERNEATH (UK 1972)

JINNAH (Pakistan 1999)

Director/Writer: Jane Arden Cast: Sheila Allen, Susanka Fraey, Liz Danciger, Ann Lynn, Jane Arden Courtesy of Contemporary Films After being dragged out of a lake, a nameless young woman ﬁnds herself committed to a countryside group therapy session where the main therapist (Arden herself) guides the female patients through a gruelling series of encounters, which slip in and out of reality. Created with the participation of Arden’s Holocaust Theatre Company, an avant-garde group of players who cut loose here in sequences of mounting hysteria including a half-naked woman cruciﬁed and mounted in the air. Tues 22 June 15:00 (1 hr 46 mins) Age Restriction: 18 (SNVL)

Director: Jamil Dehlavi Cast: Christopher Lee, James Fox, Maria Aitken, Shashi Kapoor Courtesy of Magnolia The story of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan. Dehlavi portrays the two main characters – Jinnah and his sister Fatima – with such endearing sensitivity and impeccable credibility, while also capturing the high political drama that marked the history of the struggle for Pakistan. The device he uses so skilfully is to challenge Jinnah into responding to the critique of both his leadership and his goal. This enables an exposition by way of answering charges levelled against him of the rationale for Pakistan, as well as the treachery and betrayals that culminate in Jinnah’s break from Congress and his stormy relationship with Lord Mountbatten. Christopher Lee plays Jinnah with conviction and his performance is outstanding. Sun 27 June 20:00 & Mon 28 June 15:00 Age Restriction: PG

ANTI CLOCK

(UK 1980)

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Directors: Jane Arden & Jack Bond Written by Jane Arden Cast: Sebastian Saville, Suzan Cameron, Liz Saville, Louise Temple A study of the psychological state of Joseph Sapha, a self-destructive young man cursed with the ability to receive constant visions of the future. Unable to deal with his memories he can only relate to a professor (also himself) attempting to reprogram and unravel these complex thought processes. The ﬁlm disappeared almost immediately after release primarily because of Arden’s suicide. Extremely strange and often hypnotically beautiful the ﬁlm is awash with provocative ideas about the nature of the human mind, political freedom and aesthetic perception. Wed 23 15:00 (1 hr 47 mins) Age Restriction: 18 (SN)

JAMIL DEHLAVI – FESTIVAL GUEST The National Arts Festival welcomes director Jamil Dehlavi for a retrospective of his work. Jamil Dehlavi, an Indo-Pakistani-French filmmaker was born in Calcutta to an Indian father and French mother. The family moved to Pakistan after 1947 where his father worked in the Pakistan Foreign Service, giving Jamil an opportunity to travel to various foreign locations, specifically in Europe. This also gave him a chance to learn several languages and to become exposed to the international world of art and cinema. Dehlavi studied at Oxford University, pursued law and was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in London. He later made his way to New York where he spent three years studying cinema at Columbia University, obtaining a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in film directing. He also made his first film while he was there, fell in love with this line of work, and has never looked back since.

GODFORSAKEN (Pakistan/UK/France 2010) Fri 25 June 20:00 & Tues 29 17:30 (1 hr 21 mins) Age Restriction: PG * See 15 Amazing programme

INFINITE JUSTICE

(UK/Pakistan 2006)

Director: Jamil Dehlavi Cast: Kevin Collins, Raza Jaffrey, Jennifer Calvert, Constantine Gregory The film, winner of the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, is loosely based on the months leading to the death of the American Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl who was investigating links between Pakistan, Al Queda and 9/11 when he was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists. His beheading was filmed by his captors. Dehlavi’s uncompromising film strikes to the heart of the international stand-off between East and West and postulates whether professional observers such as Pearl are merely puppets in a wider conspiracy controlled not by governments or idealists but by shadowy middle-men with their own murky agendas. At no point does Dehlavi allow himself to take sides, instead presenting his story from multiple viewpoints. Infinite Justice – the name given by the Americans to their operation to topple the Taliban in Afghanistan – is a hard-hitting but always intelligent contemplation on American world policy and the reaction to it by the Muslim world. Sat 26 June 20:00 & Thurs 1 July 20:00 (1 hr 33 mins) Age Restriction: 15 (V)

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (UK/Pakistan 1992) Director: Jamil Dehlavi Cast: Melissa Leo, James Wilby, Shabana Azmi, Zia Mohyeddin Under Benazir Bhutto’s government, Dehlavi returned to Pakistan to make Immaculate Conception the story of a childless English-American couple who visit a fertility shrine in Karachi with devastating results. The shoot was not without difficulties of its own as the Gulf War had just begun and anti-Western feeling was high. Despite the political problems the film was completed successfully and went on to win the Special Jury Prize at the Dinard Film Festival and was selected for the Panorama in Berlin. “Intelligent and buzzing with ideas, the film is perceptive, entertaining and pungent like A Passage to India drained of its hope and liberal goodwill.” (The Observer). “The film is immaculate, its conception is challenging and imaginative and the location work is terrific. A very shrewd understanding of the world’s two-way cultural desires.” (The Guardian) Sun 27 June 17:30 & Thurs 1 July 15:00 (1 hr 58 mins) Age Restriction: 15 (SV)

BORN OF FIRE

(UK 1983)

Director: Jamil Dehlavi Cast: Peter Firth, Suzan Crowley, Stefan Kalipha A gifted British ﬂautist goes into the wilds of Turkey to engage in a musical and mystical battle with a Master Musician/Magician, a supernatural creature who plans to destroy the world by ﬁre. Drawing on a myth of the universal unconscious which appears to span every countries mythology – like Robert Johnson playing the blues with the Devil at the crossroads – the white musician/magician and the black musician/magician battle it out with the power of sound for the soul of humankind. Mon 28 June 22:00 (1 hr 39 mins) Age Restriction: PG 13

THE BLOOD OF HUSSAIN (Pakistan 1981) Director: Jamil Dehlavi Cast: Salman Peerjada, Kika Markham, Durriya Kazi An abstract essay on tyranny, this controversial film is a fictional account of a military dictatorship and the revolutionary movement against it. Shot on location in Pakistan, Dehlavi recast the martyrdom of Prophet Mohammed’s grandson, who fought against the tyranny of the Yazid, the most notorious despot in the history of Islam, in the context of modern Pakistan. The film was finished a fortnight before General Zia came to power, and for that sin of political clairvoyance, he was forced to leave the country and live in exile. The film was selected for the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes and won the Grand Prize at the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily. Mon 28 June 17:30 (1 hr 38 mins) Age Restriction: PG

TOWERS OF SILENCE

(Pakistan 1975)

Director: Jamil Dehlavi Cast: Judy van Hook, Jamil Dehlavi, Ajaz Ahmed A surreal impression of a young boy’s ritualistic obsession with death. Beautiful and awesome – a mystical journey into a soul possessed portraying ever-recurring problems and fears of mankind such as life and death, religion and rebellion, love and despair. “Dehlavi is a poet with the camera.” (The Pakistan Times). “A startling fairy tale of our time.” (The Dawn, Pakistan). “The ﬁlm speaks well of the future of Pakistani cinema.” (The Times of India) Wed 30 June 12:00 (25 mins) Age Restriction: PG

THE IMMORTAL (France 1963)

2010 STANDARD BANK YOUNG ARTIST FOR FILM CLAIRE ANGELIQUE MY BLACK LITTLE HEART (Denmark/Germany/South Africa 2008) Director: Claire Angelique Cast: Skyf Umlungu (Claire Angelique), Ingrid Bithiah Diener, Simon Erasmus, Graham Barnes A film to take the breath away, the multi-talented Claire Angelique’s feature film directorial début is so good that it is miraculous. Produced by Lars von Trier’s people Zentropa and shot by Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire), the film shows a vision of Durban that is beautiful and hellish. A young girl (played by Angelique) addicted to heroin, working as a dancer, porn actress and sometime prostitute finds the foetus of a Nigerian baby lying on the beach. This moment informs the horrifying progress of her story as Nigerian drug lords take advice from their shaman and bloody voodoo practices involve her and her pregnant best friend. Uncompromising, the film is vicious and painted with garish brush strokes. The girl’s gang rape by a crowd of black passengers at the back of a bus is almost unbearable to watch and the frequent injections into arms and other anatomical regions are pursued with the camera firmly placed as an observer. The subject matter could not be darker and the deeply personal narrative is as naked as one can get.The soundtrack by Chris Letcher is a considerable plus. Sun 27 June 22:00 & Mon 28 June 20:00 (1 hr 30 mins) Age Restriction: 18 (SNVL)

TRANS-EUROPE EXPRESS (France 1966) Director/Writer: Alain Robbe-Grillet Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie-France Pisier, Alain Robbe-Grillet Banned in England in 1967, the film became a success de scandale and even when screened in select locations, was generally shorn of its most infamous scene of naked girls in cages. Jean (played by Robbe-Grillet) writes a screenplay while on board the Trans Europe Express. Trintignant plays the protagonist of the film-within-the-film, a professional drug smuggler with sado-masochistic tendencies who gets involved with double-dealing between Paris and Antwerp. Tues 22 June 12:00 (1 hr 45 mins) Age Restriction: 18 (SNV)

Trans-Europe Express

THE MAN WHO LIES

(France/Czechoslovakia 1968)

a.k.a. L’Homme qui Ment Director/Writer: Alain Robbe-Grillet Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ivan Mistrik, Sylvie Breal, Sylvia Turbova Stranger Boris turns up in a remote Czech village, claiming to be someone who left many years ago, a friend of a resistance ﬁghter who was shot in the war. As inconsistencies in his story begin to stack up, local residents become suspicious. Of this character Robbe-Grillet says: “Boris is someone in the act of creating himself. Boris does not lie – he speaks. He is the modern hero who has chosen his words as the guarantee of his own reality.” Winner of the Best Actor Award (Trintignant) and Best Screenplay (Robbe-Grillet) at the 1968 Berlin Film Festival. Wed 23 June 12:00 (1 hr 35 mins) Age Restriction: 15 (S)

EDEN AND AFTER (France/Tunisia/Czechoslovakia 1970) CLAIRE ANGELIQUE TALKS PART 1 & PART 2 Claire will introduce discussion on her work illustrated with screening a selection of her short ﬁlms such as: My BLACK LITTLE HEART PROMO, X = RAPE, NO-VICE, SOLID WASTE, SEXE, HOMOPHOBIA – THE RACISM WITHIN, IT SMELLS DISGUSTING, GOLEM’S EFFECT, I LOVE THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE….., HYPE, PALACE OF BONE (OR PARTS THEREOF) Part 1: Sun 27 June 12:00 (1 hr) Part 2: Sun 27 June 18:00 (1 hr) Age Restriction: 18 (SNVL)

THE LABYRINTHINE CINEMA OF ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET & MARGUERITE DURAS Presented with the kind assistance of the French Institute in Johannesburg (IFAS), the French Embassy and Culturesfrance.

Robbe-Grillet The French writers Alain Robbe-Grillet and Marguerite Duras were the masters of the literary movement the Nouveau Roman, a literary style that was nonlinear, concise and mysterious. Remarkably both Robbe-Grillet and Duras were as devoted to ﬁlmmaking as they were to literary output and their ﬁlms stand as unique and fascinating works of personal vision.

a.k.a. L’Eden et Apres Director/Writer: Alain Robbe-Grillet Cast: Catherine Jourdan, Pierre Zimmer, Richard Leduc, Loraine Rainery Robbe-Grillet’s first excursion into colour is a heady blend of free-form hedonism and hallucinogenic sexual experimentation. Catherine accepts some powder offered to her by a mysterious stranger Duchemin. He disappears and she sets off to North Africa to find him living for real all the hallucinations she witnessed earlier. This film is about colours. About the blue and the white of the landscape and about the red that comes to stain it cruelly. Thurs 24 June 12:00 (1 hr 33 mins) Age Restriction: 18 (SNV)

GRADIVA C’est Gradiva qui vous Appelle Fri 25 June 22:00 & Tues 29 June 22:00 (1 hr 58 mins) Age Restriction: 18 (SNV) *For Robbe-Grillet’s ﬁnal masterpiece see the programme “Don’t Bring the Kids”.

THE TRUCK (France 1977) a.k.a. Le Camion Director/Writer: Marguerite Duras Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Marguerite Duras “I wanted to make cinema because the films people made with my novels were completely unbearable.” – Duras. The central question asked by Depardieu of Duras in The Truck is: “Is this going to be a film?” “This is a film” is Duras’ reply. Seated in her Paris flat Depardieu listens to the film read to him by Duras. His role is to be a truck driver picking up an old woman hitchhiker to be played by Duras, who recounts her life. Every day she does this, stopping cars and telling her life story as if for the first time. Cinema which requires the visual imagination of the viewer – Cinema in its purest form. Fri 25 June 12:00 (1 hr 20 mins) Age Restriction: PG

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Claire Angelique

a.k.a. L’Immortelle Director/Writer: Alain Robbe-Grillet Cast: Francoise Brion, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Catherine Robbe-Grillet Robbe-Grillet’s first solo directorial feature scripted before Last Year at Marienbad was the winner of the most highly acclaimed critic’s award the Prix Louis Delluc. The Immortal deals with a trio of characters designated in the published screenplay, as simply L, M, and N. This film enigma tells the story of N who falls in love with an elusive stranger in Istanbul. She disappears mysteriously and he is determined to find her again. Mon 21 June 12:00 (1 hr 40 mins) Age Restriction: 15(S)

LE NAVIRE NIGHT (France 1979)

RHINOCEROS (Poland/Germany 1974)

Director/Writer: Marguerite Duras Cast: Dominique Sanda, Bulle Ogier, Mathieu Carriere “I approach cinema with the intention to murder it” – Duras. The story of two tragic lovers who never meet. The girl is dying of leukaemia and dare not risk face-to-face contact. For days and nights they live with the phone, sleeping by the receiver, speaking or remaining silent. A dark orgasm, with neither touchin. Eyes closed, just voices. Benoit Jacquot and Duras provide the disembodied voices heard. Mon 28 June 12:00 (1 hr 35 mins) Age Restriction: PG

a.k.a. Die Nashorner Director: Jan Lenica Based on the surrealistic play by Eugene Ionesco in which the citizens of Paris are turning into pachyderms. Tues 22 June 12:00 (10 mins) Age Restriction: PG

AGATHA (France 1981) a.k.a. Agatha et les illimetees Director/Writer: Marguerite Duras Cast: Bulle Ogier, Yann Andrea The story of a seaside holiday told by a brother and sister whose (platonic?) incest is declared. It is by the absence of things that the ﬁlm unfolds, the lack of light that we call light, the lack of life that we call life and the lack of love that we call love. Duras gives us less to see but more to hear and, as always, more to think about. Tues 29 June 12:00 (1 hr 30 mins) Age Restriction: PG

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THE MAN OF THE ATLANTIC

WOMAN AS A FLOWER (France 1975) a.k.a. La Femme Fleur Director: Jan Lenica Text: Andre Pierre de Mandiargues A celebration of the eroticism of woman and the beauty of the naked female body. Thurs 24 June 12:00 (11 mins) Age Restriction: 15 (S)

CHROMOPHOBIA (Belgium 1969) Director: Raoul Servais An invading army destroys all colour in a harmless town and brings it into a state of depression. Then a jester arrives. Mon 28 June 12:00 (10 mins) Age Restriction: PG

(France 1982)

a.k.a. L’Homme Atlantique Director/Writer Marguerite Duras “I really don’t care if anyone sees my film.” – Duras In seeing the film is of very little importance as there are hardly any filmic images, it’s almost a black screen. Filming in absentia! This film about writing and the disappearance of the image is a rebalancing of cinema, a culmination of Duras’ discoveries about the autonomy of the soundtrack to return the writer’s voice to their writing. Wed 30 June 12:00 (45 mins) Age Restriction: PG

THE CHILDREN

(France 1984)

a.k.a. Les Enfants Director/Writer: Marguerite Duras (with Jean Mascolo) Cast: Axel Bogousslavisky, Daniel Gelin, Andre Dussolier, Pierre Arditi “I don’t know if I have discovered filmmaking but I have made films.” – Duras In The Children, Ernest the child says, “ I don’t want to go back to school because at school they teach me things I don’t know.” Simply stated by Duras: “This is an infinitely desperate comic film whose subject is knowledge.” Thurs 1 July 12:00 (1 hr 34 mins) Age Restriction: A

EVEN DWARVES STARTED SMALL A programme of very rare and very wonderful short ﬁlms by the animators Jan Lenica (from Poland), Raoul Servais (from Belgium) and Jan Svankmayer (from the Czech Republic)

THE FALSE NOTE

(Belgium 1970)

a.k.a. De Valse Noot Director: Raoul Servais A day in the life of an organ grinder, down on his luck, who wanders the streets of Paris, dreaming about what might be. Tues 29 June 12:00 (10 mins) Age Restriction: PG

SIRENE

(Belgium 1971)

Director: Raoul Servais Monster-like cranes dominate a harbour like prehistoric reptiles. The only human being is a ﬁsherman who has witnessed an encounter between a sailor and a mermaid. Thurs 1 July 12:00 (9 mins) Age Restriction: PG

NB: These short ﬁlms are individually shown at the screenings of some of the full-length ﬁlms.

JABERWOCKY

A (Poland 1969)

Jahlav aneb Saticky Slameneho Huberta Director: Jan Svankmayer Lewis Carroll’s poem is read and followed by a free-form depiction of animated images and toys from childhood, repeatedly overturned by a live cat. Fri 25 June 12:00 (14 mins) Age Restriction: PG

Director: Jan Lenica A writer is persecuted by an enormous and abusive letter A. Just as he thinks he has gotten rid of it, a giant B appears. Mon 21 June 12:00 (10 mins) Age Restriction: PG

FANTORRO, THE LAST ARBITER (Poland/France 1971) a.k.a. Fatorro, le Dernier Justicer Director: Jan Lenica A rare and magical work. Wed 23 June 12:00 (10 mins) Age Restriction: PG

(Czech Republic 1971)

LEONARDO’S DIARY

(Czech Republic 1972)

Leonarduv Denik Director: Jan Svankmayer Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are inter-cut with strangely similar live action scenes. Wed 30 June 12:00 (14 mins) Age Restriction: PG

THE SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF SAVAGERY The Camera Goes into the Heart Of Darkness – Oh the Horror!

Werner Hertzog

The National Arts Festival thanks the Italian Cultural Centre, the Brazilian Embassy and the Goethe Institute for their kind assistance with some of these ﬁlms.

AFRICA ADDIO (Italy 1966) Directors: Gualtiero Jacopetti & Franco Prosperi As colonialism came to an end in the early-sixties, a continent of unstable nations was left tragically unprepared for their newfound independence. Over a three-year period, documentary filmmakers Jacopetti and Prosperi, risked their lives to be among the few eyewitnesses to Africa’s agony. From the genocide in Zanzibar to the Watusi and Mau Mau massacres, from mercenary assaults in the Congo and to industrial complicity in apartheid. When the film was released, critics not wanting to see what was clearly happening before their eyes accused the filmmakers of racism and exploitation. This is the fullreconstituted Director’s Cut. Mon 21 June 22:00 (2 hrs 19 mins) Age Restriction: 18 (SVNL)

ADDIO UNCLE TOM

(Italy 1971)

BLACK GOD WHITE DEVIL

(Brazil 1964)

a.k.a. Deus e o Diabolo na Terra do Sol Director: Glauber Rocha Cast: Geraldo del Rey, Yona Magalhaes, Othon Bastos Director Rocha was only 22-years old when he changed Brazilian cinema overnight with this astonishing, symphonic epic. At Cannes, a pantheon of greats – Bunuel, Pasolini, Bertolucci, Godard and Sergio Leone – enthusiastically praised the film. The opening shots of a landscape of flyinfested carcasses of cattle and horses and the introduction of the character of Antonio das Mortes more than influenced the development of the Italian western and Sergio Leone owes a lot to Rocha. But it is the wide range of influences from Brazilian Art Brut to Franz Fanon to Eisenstein that makes Rocha a truly amazing cinematic master. “So I’ve told you a story of truth and imagination … this world is unjustly divided for the land belongs to man not to God nor to the Devil.” – the narrator sings Tues 29 June 15:00 (2 hrs 5 mins) Age Restriction: 15 (SV)

BURDEN OF DREAMS (USA 1982) Director: Les Blank For nearly five years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog desperately tired to complete the most ambitious film of his career – Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man’s attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank captured the unfolding of this production, made all the more perilous by Hertzog’s determination to shoot the most daunting scenes without models or special effects, including a sequence requiring hundreds of the local inhabitants to pull a full-sized, 320-ton steamship over a small mountain. The result is an extraordinary document of the filmmaking process and a unique look into the single-minded passion of one of cinema’s most fearless directors. Winner of a British Academy Award for best documentary in 1982. Derek Malcolm (of the Guardian, London) picked it in “Century of Films” as one of the best 100 films of the 20th century. Tues 29 June 10:00 (1 hr 35 mins) Age Restriction: PG

Director: Werner Hertzog Narrated by Lotte Eisner Herzog examines creation’s mythology. Beginning with ﬁve minutes of shots of airplanes landing in remote locations, he takes us through three chapters – the creation, paradise and the golden age all designed to consider man’s place as part of existence on earth. Each shot has been purposefully constructed – pictures, words and music – worked and reworked into imagery of sound and vision that is both sublime and subliminal. Shot in locations all over Africa and accompanied by music that is classical, African, experimental and incorporating Leonard Cohen and Blind Faith. It is a ﬁlm like no other – or perhaps like few others. Wed 23 June 22:00 (1 hr 17 mins) Age Restriction: PG

HEART OF DARKNESS (UK 1994) Director: Nicolas Roeg Cast: Tim Roth, Isaach de Bankolé, John Malkovich From the opening frames, as the camera examines like a landscape, the skin of elephants accompanied by a music concrete amalgam of the raised voices of men and trumpeting of elephants, it is clear the directorial voice is thoroughly in control. Roeg had wanted to film Joseph Conrad’s influential novella for many years and when the chance came his way he grabbed it with relish. The journey into the brutal green wasteland, up the Congo River in search of the enigmatic Kurtz was also the basis of Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and as brilliant as that film was, Roeg’s version is on one hand more traditional and on the other burning with the horror. Thurs 1 July 17:30 (1 hr 40 mins) Age Restriction: 18 (V)

IRACEMA – AN AMAZONIC SHAG (Brazil 1976) a.k.a. Iracema – Uma Tansa Amazonica Directors: Jorge Bodansky and Orlande Senna Cast: Edna de Cassia, Paulo Cesar Pereio A ﬁfteen-year old whore meets a truck driver and travels with him along the Amazon Forest through Transamazonica, the longest Brazilian highway built by the military government. When the truck driver drops her off, she is submitted to the most decadent forms of prostitution to survive. Banned in Brazil for many years because the ﬁlm exposed the myriad crimes of the regime, from the ecological wasting of the Amazonian forest, to slave work and infantile prostitution. Largely improvised, the apparent realism drew accusations that the female lead really was a young prostitute. The title is a multi-levelled joke – Iracema is an anagram for “America” while going Transamazonica can be translated equally as going across the Amazon as “raping” the Amazon. Wed 30 June 10:00 (1 hr 30 mins) Age Restriction: 18 (SNV)

THE LION HAS SEVEN HEADS (Brazil/Italy/Congo 1971) a.k.a. Der Leone Have Sept Cabecas Director: Glauber Rocha Cast: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Rada Rassimov, Gabriele Tinti Courtesy of The Other Cinema Glauber Rocha’s extraordinary and exuberant allegory on colonialism operates strangely as a companion piece to Africa Addio – tough and extreme but surprisingly clear and considered. Rocha was the leading light of the Brazilian New Wave. Made in ﬁve languages, this veritable tower of Babel seeks by showing the viciousness of colonial exploitation to show equally the inevitability of Africa violently taking up arms against the exploiters. Wed 30 June 15:00 (1 hr 37 mins) Age Restriction: 16 (NVL)

SILVA THE ZULU (Italy/SA 1927) Director: Attilio Gatti A rare recovery of a lost South African film shot in Natal by an Italian anthropological filmmaker. The silent film will be accompanied by live music. Sat 26 June 12:00 (1 hr 4mins) Age Restriction: A

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a.k.a. Addio Zio Tom Directors: Gualtiero Jacopetti & Franco Prosperi After been pilloried for Africa Addio, the directors were back at the dawn of the seventies with this exploration of race relations in modern America including jaw-dropping depictions of White oppression, radical Black rage and a timetravel dramatisation of slave trade atrocities, all shown in horrifyingly graphic and debasing detail. The American distributors insisted on a re-cut removing much of the race-war politics. Jacopetti and Prosperi were way ahead of their time. The ﬁlm is arguably one of the most radical ever made. This is the full Director’s Cut. Tues 22 June 22:00 (2 hrs 16 mins) Age Restriction: 18 (SLNV)

FATA MORGANA (Germany 1971)

THE SENTIENT WORLD – THE CINEMA OF JAPAN Presented with the kind assistance of the Japanese Embassy and the Japan Foundation.

Six fantasy ﬁlms – three for the kids and three for the grown-ups – all of them inhabiting a world which is through the looking glass, down the rabbit warren, pausing to chat to the caterpillar and turning left at the croquet green.

Japanese cinema as in all Japanese art is intrinsically linked to seasonal changes and the world of natural order and water – the sea, the rain, the dew – is a powerful symbol of the spiritual.

BRING THE KIDS ALICE IN WONDERLAND (USA/UK 2010)

AFTER THE RAIN (Brazil/Italy/Congo 1971) a.k.a. Ame Agaru Director: Takeshi Koizumi Cast: Akira Tearae, Yoshiko Miyzaki, Shiro Mifune Written by the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, who died before ﬁlming could begin, the project was given to Kurosawa’s long-time collaborator Takeshi Koizumi. A master-less samurai and his wife are staying at an inn during a rainstorm. Everyone is waiting for the rain to end and the raging river to subside so that they can cross over. The samurai is a kind man who tries to help everybody pass the time. This is a sweet and gentle ﬁlm where nothing much happens and yet we get to know a bunch of very good people and learn a lesson about the value of kindness and honesty. Tues 22 June 10:00 (1 hr 32 mins) Age Restriction: PG

AUGUST IN THE WATER (Japan 1995)

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THE MAD-HATTER’S TEA PARTY

a.k.a Mizu No Naka No Hachigatsu Director: Sogo Ishii Cast: Rena Komine, Shinsuke Aoki, Reiko Matsuo Two meteorites land in an area of Japan causing a drought. People start collapsing from what is termed a ‘turning to stone disease’. In Genkai City a schoolgirl goes into a coma. When she awakens she realises the truth about the disease. Visually the film is a wonder with impressive use of natural lighting in bright interiors and beautifully composed Zen-like static shots of the assorted esoteric ephemera. Ishii’s almost transcendental style of filmmaking comes, he says from within himself. Be it conversations with squeaking dolphins or the clumps of mushrooms surrounding the meteor, which grow lysergically, drama takes a firm backseat to dream logic. Wed 23 June 10:00 (1 hr 57 mins) Age Restriction: PG

A SCENE AT THE SEA (Japan 1991) a.k.a. Ano Natsu Ichiban Shizukana Umi Director: Takeshi Kitano Cast: Kuroko Maki, Hiroko Oshima Charting the course of a relationship of a boy and his girlfriend – both profoundly deaf – when the former decides to teach himself to surf. Kitano turns it into a gently funny, very moving love story. It is not just its quiet humanity but the meticulous editing that is reminiscent of the great Japanese ﬁlm master Ozu. Thurs 24 June 10:00 (1 hr 41 mins) Age Restriction: PG

MISTY KID OF WIND – THE GLASS CAPE (Japan 1989) a.k.a. Kaze no Matasaburo – Garasu no Manto Director: Shunya Ito Cast: Toshiyuki Amagasa, Fumi Dan, Misato Hayase This beautiful tale is set in a small mountain village in the 1920s. Fatherless Karin meets and befriends Saburo Takada who is known as ‘the misty kid of the wind’. She and her classmates begin to realise that he has superhuman powers and he becomes her protector. Fri 25 June 10:00 (1 hr 47 mins) Age Restriction: PG

Alice in Wonderland

Director: Tim Burton Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover From Walt Disney Pictures comes this epic fantasy adventure, which is a magical and imaginative twist on one of the most beloved stories of all time, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Set some years after Alice’s ﬁrst foray down the rabbit hole Alice discovers at a house party that she is to be engaged and that the announcement is to be made that very day. Looking for some way of escape she spies a white rabbit disappear down a hole and follows him, returning to Wonderland where she is re-united with all of her childhood friends including The White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, The March Hare, The Dormouse, The Caterpillar, The Cheshire Cat, and of course, The Mad Hatter. Mon 21 June 10:00 & Sat 26 June 10:00 (1 hr 41 mins) Age Restriction: A

CORALINE Director: Henry Selick Courtesy of Nu-Metro First off: it’s Coraline, not Caroline. In this animated ﬁlm a feisty and curios 11-year-old (blue-haired puppet) who is bored with her parents discovers a hidden doorway in their new house. At night, it transforms into a passage to a strange mirror world where doubles of her usually distracted parents lavish attention on her. The only fact is that these other parents’ eyes have been replaced by black buttons serves as a warning that something isn’t right. It’s a story told with care and love in which the details, emotional notes, over-thetop delights, and profoundly scary bits are all executed equally well. Based on Neil Gaiman’s best-selling book, Selick’s script remixes fairy-tale tropes familiar from the Brothers Grimm and Lewis Carroll and injects them with enough novelty to make the result both fresh and timeless. Mon 28 June 10:00 & Fri 2 July 10:00 (1 hr 30 mins) Age Restriction: A (Recommended 10)

THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS (USA/UK 2009) Director: Terry Gilliam Cast: Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole Johnny Depp, Tom Waits Courtesy of Nu-Metro The Imaginarium in the travelling show of Dr Parnassus allows members of the audience to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom. Having made a pack with Old Nick thousands of years before trading his daughter (on her reaching 16) for eternal youth, Parnassus now realises the error of his ways as his daughter’s birthday looms. Negotiating another deal with Old Nick, Parnassus enlists a wild, compelling and comical collection of characters as he races against time, across a landscape of surreal obstacles to undo the mistakes of his past. A gorgeous morality tale of extraordinary beauty. Sat 27 June 10:00 & Sat 3 July 10:00 (2 hrs 3 mins) Age Restriction: A

DON’T BRING THE KIDS GRADIVA (France/Belgium 2008) (C’est Gradiva qui vous Appelle) Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet Cast: James Wilby, Arielle Dombasle, Dany Verissimo, Farid Chopel Courtesy of Wide Management While researching the history of Delacroix paintings in Morocco, art historian John Locke gets a tip on some undiscovered sketches of an alluring woman. Soon he begins to see the girl throughout the city, sometimes real and other times appearing like a ghost, she guides him through a whirlwind of dark and erotic encounters involving a subservient handmaiden, the mysterious S&M-orientated Club of the Golden Triangle and Gradiva, a woman murdered in a past century who seems to be controlling his destiny. Sourced from an influential 1903 novel by Wilhelm Jensen – a psychoanalytic favourite – the film is austere, immaculate, precise and voluminously erotic with meditations on time, memory and psychological dislocation fitting from the author of the classic Last Year at Marienbad. * We refer you to the separate focus on the films of Robbe-Grillet and Marguerite Duras.

Fri 25 June 22:00 & Tues 29 June 22:00 (1 hr 58 mins) Age Restriction: 18 (SNV)

HELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GROUND (Pakistan/UK 2008/09)

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a.k.a. Zibahkhana Director: Omar Ali Khan Cast: Rehan, Najma Malik Courtesy of Mondo Macabro Arguably the ďŹ rst slasher/horror/erotic ďŹ lm to be shot in Pakistan. Five teenagers on their way to a rock concert are menaced by ďŹ&#x201A;esh-eating mutations and then fall into the clutches of a family of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;back woodsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; killers. Incorporating copious amounts of gore alongside a splattering of social commentary and slices of dark humour the ďŹ lm is, nevertheless distinctly Pakistani in perspective. Imaginatively shot it is the ďŹ rst ďŹ lm in history where the killer girls wear burkahs. Fri 2 July 22:00 (1 hr 30 mins) Age Restriction: 18 (SVN)

Director: Neill Blomkamp. Cast: Sharlto Copley, Mandla Gaduka, Jason Cope, David James South Africa is so obsessed with illegal aliens that it is exciting to see such xenophobia sub-textualised with such ďŹ nesse into the best Sci-Fi movie in YONKS *OHANNESBURG HAS BEEN INUNDATED WITH )LLEGAL !LIENS FROM /UTER Space, designed to resemble a hideous form of cricket which plagued *OHANNESBURG UNTIL A FEW YEARS AGO called the Parktown Prawn. The Spacy Invaders are rounded up and put into detention camps but the locals get restless and a bureaucratic Afrikaans policeman (a brilliant performance by 3HARLTO #OPLEY IS COMMISSIONED TO SORT them out. The incisive humour mixes APARTHEID REFERENCES AND 2AINBOW Nation clichĂŠs into a heady mĂŠlange. Sat 26 June 15:00 & Thurs 1 July 22:00 (1 hr 51 mins) Age Restriction: 13 (V)

MOTHER OF TEARS (Italy 2009) a.k.a. Mater Lacrimosa Director: Dario Argento Cast: Asia Argento, Udo Kier, Daria Niccalodi Courtesy of Video Vision Mater Lacrimosaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s destructive spirit has been taken up by a gang of Italian beauties who are hell-bent on spreading her doctrine of carnal pleasure and general carnage. Argento, an accredited master of the gothic with a good few masterpieces under his belt, pulls out all the stops here submitting his (often unclothed) daughter to all manner of dangers and indignities and his ex-wife Daria Niccolodi to an unpleasant and brutal demise. The ďŹ nal apotheosis amongst the naked harpies in the den of tears is something to behold. Sat 3 July 22:00 (1 hr 37 mins) Age Restriction: 18 (SNVL)

SOUTH AFRICA CITY BREATH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Festival of Video Poetry and Performance (South Africa 2009) Directed and curated by Kai Lossgott A series of short ďŹ lms, which together form a holistic presentation of independent South African work: s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s

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Thurs 1 July 10:00 (1 hr 10 mins) Age Restriction: PG

Director: Craig Freimond Cast: Carl Beukes, Lionel Newton, Lindiwe Matshikiza. Courtesy of Video Vision A hot new ďŹ lm that has South Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s critics united â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is one of the best LOCAL lLMS ) HAVE WATCHED IN A LONG TIME v $OREEN 0REMDEV 460LUS n h! TRAFlC JAM OF WITTY LINES IN A SURREAL DRAMA ABOUT SURVIVING *OHANNESBURG v $EBASHINE 4HANGWVELO 4HE 3TAR n h5NIQUE AND TRULY 3OUTH !FRICAN v 0AUL "OEKOOI 2APPORT ! SUCCESSFUL COMEDY WRITER WHO FEELS OVERWHELMED BY crime, politics, pessimism and a feather-duster salesman, spurred on by the desertion of his girlfriend, goes on a madcap journey through the country trying to recover his elusive sense of humour. Jozi is the affectionate name GIVEN BY LOCALS TO *OHANNESBURG Thurs 24 June 17:30 & Sat 3 July 15:00 (1 hr 30 mins) Age Restriction: PG

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Cityscapes feature prominently this year â&#x20AC;&#x201C; spacecraft hovering over Joeys, the spine that runs down Capeys, drug taking in Durbs.

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LONG STREET (South Africa 2009) Director: Revel Fox Cast: Sannie Fox, Roberta Fox, David Butler, Busi Mhlongo The eponymous Long Street, which is the central spine running from the RESIDENTIAL AREA NESTLING AT THE FOOT OF 4ABLE -OUNTAIN DOWN TO #APE 4OWN harbour, provides a symbol for the trajectory of a young musician Sia who struggles to escape from her heroin dependence to pursue her musical CAREER ! VERY PERSONAL PROJECT FOR DIRECTOR 2EVEL &OX WHOSE DAUGHTER S STORY this essentially is and he stars both his daughter and his wife in the seminal ROLES OF THEMSELVES "UT BEYOND RELIVING AN EPISODE OF HIS OWN FAMILY HISTORY THE lLM IS ALSO A LOVE POEM TO #APE 4OWN )N EVERY FRAME ONE CAN FEEL THE directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adoration for the city as well as his love for the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music, which permeates the ďŹ lm. Sat 26 June 17:30 & Fri 2 July 12:00 (1 hr 30 mins) Age Restriction: PG 13

THE SILVER FEZ (South Africa 2009) Director: Lloyd Ross & Rian Malan A wonderfully engaging documentary about two opposing Malay choirs in #APE 4OWN PREPARING TO DO BATTLE FOR THE COVETED 3ILVER &EZ TROPHY 7HAT IS remarkable about the ďŹ lm is that we really get to know all the participants INTIMATELY AND ARE CONCERNED FOR THEIR ASPIRATIONS AND SUCCESS "Y THE TIME THE competition arrives we feel that we have gone the full journey with them. Thurs 24 June 15:00 (1 hr 27 mins) Age Restriction: A

THE UNITED COLOURS OF YEOVILLE 3OUTH !FRICA Director: Savo Tufegdzic )N THE EARLY NINETIES 4UFEGDZIC WHO WAS AN INTRINSIC PART OF THE h2OCKY 3TREET 3CENEv IN 9EOVILLE MADE A SOMETIMES INFURIATINGLY CHAOTIC mY ON THE wall documentary about the bohemian lifestyle that was in full bloom in the area. Now, many years later and with the gift of hindsight he has produced A MESMERISING LOOK AT THAT BRIEF PERIOD IN *OHANNESBURG S HISTORY WHEN THE ďŹ&#x201A;ag was ďŹ&#x201A;ying for freedom, integration, free love, drug experimentation and the downfall of apartheid. An absolute must for those who were there and for those who were not. Fri 25 June 17:30 & Wed 30 June 17:30 (1 hr 30 mins)

clearly shows a musician intent on gathering musical excerpts from the world around him while ďŹ rmly retaining the essence of his African identity. Moreiraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s band comprises #PLBOJ %ZFS (piano), $BNFSPO Ward (guitar), )FMEFS (PO[BHB (bass), 5POZ 1BDP (drums), John Hassan (percussion).

Venue: DSG Hall R70 (Full); R68 %JTDPVOUFE R65 (Student) a.s.k. trio

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The a.s.k. trio is a perfect example of jazzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to bridge continents and cultures, in this case bringing together three musicians from Africa, Asia and Europe in a musical conversation that transcends the cultural and language barriers that normally exist. South African singer, pianist and composer "NBOEB 5JGmO has performed extensively in South Africa, and more recently in London, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. She has toured several times as a jazz artist in Japan and has also performed in Mauritius, Bahrain and the U.A.E. On a visit to Japan in 2007, Amanda met and played with the impressive young Japanese bassist-composer 4FJHP .BUTVOBHB, and virtuoso Dutch drummer Sebastiaan Kaptein and the trio enjoyed an immediate connection and synergy, such that Amanda was invited back to Japan twice in 2008 to tour with the newlyformed a.s.k. trio. The trio recently recorded their ďŹ rst album (Wide Open Spaces) in Amsterdam, and it is now distributed throughout Japan. In 2009 a.s.k. toured Japan, playing at the prestigious Billboard Live in Fukuoka, and Body and Soul Jazz Club in Tokyo, and also at the Taipei International Jazz Festival in Taiwan to a responsive capacity audience.

Venue: DSG Hall R70 (Full); R68 %JTDPVOUFE R65 (Student) Concord Nkabinde - see pg 59

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We kick-start the 2010 Standard Bank Jazz Festival with a really funky band from Mozambique and Cape Town. 5IF .PSFJSB 1SPKFDU is led by multi-award winning saxophonist Moreira Chonguica â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a Cape Town based musician, ethnomusicologist, composer and producer originally from Mozambique who infuses the multiple inďŹ&#x201A;uences of his homeland with his South African experience of the past decade. Performances by the band are stylish and energetic and audiences are guaranteed an evening of entertainment and exploration. Moreiraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second album The Moreira Project Vol 2 Citizen of the World was deservedly awarded two SAMAs in 2009 for Best Contemporary Jazz Album and Best Album Packaging respectively, and the album

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TUESDAY 22 JUNE 19:30

CAPE JAZZ SPECTACULAR

Jazz in Cape Town has developed on a trajectory quite different to that of the rest of the country, and one of the most popular results has been the “Cape Jazz” that has emerged. It is rooted in traditional Cape Malay goema, township kwela, Khoi communal music and a Carnival vibe, all held together with a strong thread of serious jazz chops. This year we celebrate Cape Jazz with its leading exponents, who share between them nearly two centuries of performance experience. Saxophonist Robbie Jansen, who with Abdullah Ibrahim and Basil Coetzee brought Cape Town’s jazz to the notice of the world, heads up the band and he is joined on sax by Ezra Ngcukana, powerhouse scion of the Ngcukana family jazz aristocracy and guitarist Errol Dyers, another jazz accomplice of Abdullah Ibrahim. Backing this great lead section is the highly-experienced rhythm section of George Werner (piano), Peter Ndlala (bass) and Carlo Fabe (drums).

Venue: DSG Hall R70 (full); R68 (discounted); R65 (student)

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THE MOREIRA PROJECT

Repeat performance. See Monday 21 June 19.30.

Moreira

19:30 YOUNG

VOICES OF BRANDENBURG

The Young Voices of Brandenburg is a jazz choir of 20 young voices gathered from Brandenburg County around Berlin in Germany - which has developed a signiﬁcant reputation for harnessing young talent in harmonic precision whilst remaining refreshingly unconventional. Their recent albums have featured mainly jazz standards in the style of Manhattan Transfer or New York Voices, but also traditional German folk songs adapted and arranged in the jazz idiom and original compositions using poems of Germany’s poetry icons such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Heinrich Heine and Herman Hesse. The choir will be performing a capella and accompanied by a piano trio and is conducted by Marc Secara, Jazz vocalist and leader of the Berlin Jazz Orchestra, who is the founder and musical director of the choir. He is assisted by Natascha Roth, returning to South Africa on a visit. The choir will also perform in Johannesburg and Cape Town as part of the German cultural programme during the FIFA Soccer World Cup.

Venue: DSG Hall R70 (full); R68 (discounted); R65 (student)

WEDNESDAY 23 JUNE 17:00

CAPE JAZZ SPECTACULAR

Repeat Preformance. See Tuesday 22 June 19:30

Young Voices of Brandenburg

Venue: DSG Hall R70 (full); R68 (discounted); R65 (student)

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Venue: DSG Hall R70 (full); R68 (discounted); R65 (student)

THURSDAY 24 JUNE 17:00

THE BEAUTY OF THE VOICE

German-born singer and songwriter Natascha Roth divides her time between Berlin, New York and Cape Town, teaching and performing. After a Master’s degree at the University of Graz, Austria, she has lectured Jazz Voice at UCT and the Lemmens Instituut Leuven and Royal Conservatory of Antwerp in Belgium. The depth and timbre of her voice has impressed audiences everywhere and she has collaborated with musicians as diverse as Simphiwe Dana, the Mahotella Queens, Pharoa Sanders and Dizzy Gillespie’s daughter, Jeanie Bryson. Dutch vocalist Paulien van Schaik studied at the Conservatory of Utrecht and at Berklee College in Boston and boasts a host of awards for her recordings and compositions. She has toured throughout Europe and also to China and Japan, and performs tonight in South Africa for the first time. These two superb singers are joined by Peter Guidi (flute), who has forged a significant performance career in Italy and The Netherlands, but has also become one of the pre-eminent jazz educators in Holland, also visiting Grahamstown for the first time to teach at the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival. Capetonian Andrew Lilley is on piano, Norwegian Jo Skaansar on bass, with Norwegian Erik Nylander on drums.

Venue: DSG Hall R70 (Full); R68 (Discounted); R65 (Student)

19:30 DANILO

PÉREZ MEETS SIBONGILE KHUMALO AGAIN

Jazz is about more than just technical skills: it’s about a shared vision of humanity; a meeting of artists intent on defining – even enhancing – the nature of the human condition. It is also about exploring new vistas, playing not just the music you know, but the music of the people you are visiting. All five musicians performing together tonight are consummate professionals, skilled on their instruments and practised in the wiles of pleasing an audience, with exemplary performance and recording pedigrees and an international reputation. But they also share a greater vision of the transformatory and transcendent power of music in our society. South Africa’s best-known singer Sibongile Khumalo has performed around the world, from London’s Royal Albert Hall to American tours with Hugh Masekela, receiving SAMA awards, an honorary doctorate and the National Order of Ikhamanga in the process. But beyond this she is an arts activist, active in advisory committees on the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Regarded as one of the world’s leading pianists, Danilo Perez is also Ambassador of Goodwill for UNICEF, Cultural Ambassador of his native country of Panama and President and Founder of the Panama Jazz Festival. They meet again tonight to find common musical ground between the Americas and Africa, sharing each other’s music having performed together in other contexts. They are joined by three top-class South African musicians - Victor Masondo (bass), Shannon Mowday (sax) and Clement Benny (drums).

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Venue: DSG Hall R100 (Full); R98 (Discounted); R95 (Student)

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a.s.k. trio

Repeat performance. See Monday 21 June 22.00.

Venue: DSG Auditorium R70 (Full); R68 (Discounted); R65 (Student)

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Danilo Pérez

DANILO PÉREZ

“Danilo Pérez has all of the attributes of a performer, conductor, impresario, and purveyor of musical expression greatly needed in these uncertain times. His effort to bring to the world a beacon of hope and inspiration … is a prime example of confidence in a future laden with cornucopian gifts for all humanity.” So says Wayne Shorter, with whom Danilo Perez regularly plays. Grammy award winner and gifted pianist Danilo Perez is among the most influential and dynamic musicians of our time and his distinctive blend of Pan-American jazz (covering the music of the Americas, folkloric and world music) has attracted critical acclaim and loyal audiences. He has led his own groups since the early ‘90s, and as bandleader has earned three Grammy nominations for his ebullient and innovative recordings. Born in Panama in 1965, Danilo started his musical studies at just three years of age with his father and by age 10 was studying the European classical piano repertoire at the National Conservatory in Panama. While completing his studies in jazz composition at Berklee College of Music, he performed with Terence Blanchard, Claudio Roditi, Paquito D’Rivera and Arturo Sandoval and subsequently toured and/ or recorded with Wayne Shorter, Steve Lacy, Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano, Tito Puente, Wynton Marsalis, John Patitucci and Gary Burton amongst many others. Danilo first attracted the spotlight as the youngest member of Dizzy Gillespie’s United Nations Orchestra (1989-1992) leading to worldwide touring. Perez is joined tonight by the stellar trio of master Dutch bassist Hein Van de Geyn, young Norwegian sax supremo Frode Nymo and South Africa’s package of drumming dynamite Kesivan Naidoo.

Venue: DSG Hall R100 (Full); R98 (Discounted); R95 (Student)

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The NYJF jam session includes professionals from the Main Jazz Stage in spontaneous collaboration, musicians attending the NYJF or locals eager to play.

Venue: DSG Auditorium R20 (Full); R18 (Student)

FRIDAY 25 JUNE 17:00 STANDARD BANK YOUNG ARTIST:

MELANIE SCHOLTZ AND THE LOVE APPLES: CONNECTED

Venue: DSG Hall R70 (Full); R68 (Discounted); R65 (Student)

Melanie Scholtz

Top young jazz players from around the country ﬂock to Grahamstown each year to try their luck for the national bands, and attend the festival sometimes as established ensembles. First up tonight is the Alexander Sinton Jazz Band from Athlone on the Cape Flats, which has been making a name for themselves in Cape jazz circles. From the Moses Molelekwa Arts Foundation in Soweto comes the Taiwa Youth Jazz Band under Joe Mkhombo and Jerry Molelekwa and following them is one of the top jazz ensembles from the Jazz School at the University of Cape Town..

Venue: DSG Auditorium R40 (Full)

Darius Brubeck

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DARIUS BRUBECK AND BARNEY RACHABANE

Pianist Darius Brubeck is a member of the world’s jazz aristocracy and has spent nearly three decades in South Africa, performing and teaching, playing for instance at the very first Jazz Festival in Grahamstown in 1989. He is now based between Britain, France and Durban, with periods as Fulbright Scholar recently in Turkey and Romania. His influence on South African jazz has been significant and he has been a catalyst in numerous collaborations, most famous of which was his “Afro Cool Concept” in the 1980s with saxophonist Barney Rachabane which emphasized South African jazz standards and their original compositions. As South Africa’s premier bebop exponent, Rachabane has forged an impressive solo career, and he cemented his international reputation with Paul Simon’s Graceland project in the 1980s. His unique style combines bebop and blues, riven through always with the inflections of the kwela of his Soweto youth. Brubeck, Rachabane and Marc Duby (bass) first worked together in 1983 when they recorded “Tugela Rail” and have often played together in the 27 years since. All three, incidentally, have had a turn to conduct the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band. Duby is now Professor of Music at Rhodes University and a highlyexperienced bassist. As a student, Kevin Gibson (drums) was a very young member of Darius’ first South African quintet, and he has gone on to become South Africa’s premier jazz drummer with an impressive discography and list of performance credentials.

Venue: DSG Hall R100 (Full); R98 (Discounted); R95 (Student)

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Legend has it that the Spanish conquistadores were the first Europeans to taste a fruit the Aztecs had been developing - the tomato - and, in taking it home in the 17th century, they marketed it as an aphrodisiac: a “love apple”. Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz for 2010 is Melanie Scholtz, a vocalist with a stunning range, superb technique and eclectic musical taste, and she brings us her own “Love Apples”, a band of top-class professionals who complement her fruity voice. The deserved winner of the country’s top accolade for young performers, she has natural depth of timbre with inherent vocal strength and flexibility and to this she has added hard work and discipline, which has produced one of the most versatile and beautiful voices in South African jazz. With her heterogeneous background in opera, jazz and popular music she is able to span the confines of the different art forms to produce something fresh and exciting, appealing both to audiences and her fellow musicians. She will undoubtedly produce a substantial body of work of clarity and musical independence. Bringing the fresh new taste of “love apples” to us are Melanie Scholtz (vocals), her husband Gorm Helfjord (guitar), Andrew Lilley (piano), Charles Lazar (bass) and Jonathan Sweetman (drums), with guest, Norwegian saxophonist Frode Nymo.

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ART OF THE DUO

This is simply voice and double bass; music divested of everything superﬂuous; back to the essence of jazz. And boy, do they swing! Dutch performers Paulien van Schaik (vocals) and Hein Van de Geyn (bass) are on top of their game – masters of their instruments in a context so subtle the audience is spellbound. Hear Big Band classics by two people that sound like an entire orchestra. What is exceptional about this duo is that Van de Geyn as a bass player is not just accompanying van Schaik. “He is not on the background, playing pom pom pom,” she says; “he is literally standing next to me. Hein has this wonderful sound, so beautiful and clear. He plays wonderful melody lines and harmonies. I miss nothing when I play with him. He gives me a lot of space to really ﬁnd the essence of the songs that we’re playing.” The critics agreed: “Hein and Paulien have stripped the music of all its frills. A courageous couple, for there is nothing to disguise them. Their interaction is of an ethereal beauty. This must be how angels sing.” Their second recording won an Edison Prize (Dutch Grammy Award). You are guaranteed one of the highlights of Grahamstown Jazz 2010, but there are limited seats for this one, so you’ll need to book early.

Venue: DSG Auditorium R70 (Full); R68 (Discounted); R65 (Student)

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GATECRASH

In The Netherlands, trumpeter Eric Vloeimans is the most lauded musician of his generation, and one constantly driven to innovation. He formed his electric-jazz project Gatecrash in 2007 and the personnel has done beautiful justice to his feel for melody. With soundscape master Jeroen van Vliet on Fender Rhodes and keyboards, the inventive Gulli Gudmundsson on bass and the superb Jasper van Hulten on drums his mastery of the trumpet is elegantly obvious. Response to the live performances of this line-up has been overwhelming and it was for good reason that Vloeimans won an Edison (Dutch Grammy Award) for this project. Gatecrash has earned a reputation as one of Europe’s top cross-over bands between jazz and pop and the music ranges from lazy lounge music to hardcore up-tempo beats and spaced-out moods, with Zappa-inﬂuenced odd meters. It’s a band that sweeps the audience away.

Venue: DSG Hall R70 (Full); R68 (Discounted); R65 (Student)

Hein Van de Geyn

SATURDAY 26 JUNE 17:00

THE LYRICISTS

What do you get if you put five musicians together with a natural sensitivity for sweet melody? The lyricists! Hein Van de Geyn, Artistic Manager of the Rotterdam Jazz Academy, is one of Europe’s leading bass players. Deventer Dagblad’s jazz critic was astounded by his playing: “The bass as an orchestra - is this possible? When Hein Van de Geyn picks up the instrument it is. His international acclaim didn’t come out of the blue. Hein plays a love game with the strings. Subtle, inventive and with a harmonic richness that takes your breath away.” He has toured and recorded extensively with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Chet Baker, Lee Konitz and Toots Tielemans, amongst hundreds of others, and has performed on most of the world’s great jazz stages and festivals. Tonight he plays with four South Africans renowned for their own brand of lyricism: Feya Faku, the trumpeter with the sweetest sound in the country and a natural feel for melody; the Cape Town singer with a stunning range and nuanced inflection - Melanie Scholtz; Durban piano maestro Melvin Peters, who has performed in Australia, Norway, Scotland, France, Belgium and around the US; and young firebrand, Kesivan Naidoo, on drums.

Venue: DSG Hall R70 (Full); R68 (Discounted); R65 (Student)

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SCHOOL/YOUTH JAZZ BANDS II

Playing in a Big Band is a wonderful experience for young musicians and a great way to teach the basics of jazz, and young South African bands are showing the power of Big Band music. We start with a focus on choral jazz with Hudson Park Jazz Voices (East London) and then feature two impressive Big Bands from institutions attending the NYJF – Stellenbosch University and Stirling High (East London).

Venue: DSG Auditorium R40 (Full)

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The NYJF jam session includes professionals from the Main Jazz Stage in spontaneous collaboration, musicians attending the NYJF or locals eager to play.

Venue: DSG Auditorium R20 (Full); R18 (Student)

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DARIUS BRUBECK AND BARNEY RACHABANE, WITH JARI PERKIÖMÄKI

The world-class quartet of Barney Rachabane (sax), Darius Brubeck (piano), Marc Duby (bass) and Kevin Gibson (drums) return, this time featuring a guest from Finland - saxophonist Jari Perkiömäki, Head of Jazz Studies at Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

Venue: DSG Hall R100 (Full); R98 (Discounted); R95 (Student)

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Brian Thusi

INVENTIONS FOR FIVE

One of the most versatile and celebrated musicians in Dutch jazz is pianist Jeroen van Vliet, whose technical ﬁnesse and musical sensibility make him one of the leading modern jazz voices in The Netherlands. He is equally comfortable playing intimate, sensual duos, rock-inﬂected jazz electronica or straight-ahead swing, and he appears on 35 recordings as sideman with 5 albums of his own. He has worked – in The Netherlands and South Africa – with saxophonist Shannon Mowday, who has spent time recently in Australia, The Netherlands and Scandinavia performing, composing and recording and is completing a Masters degree in Jazz in Oslo. Van Vliet has also explored a shared musical vision with Carlo Mombelli, bassist and composer extraordinaire with collaborative credits as wideranging as Lee Konitz, Miriam Makeba and Simphiwe Dana. Young Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser adds to this fascinating mix with his inventive improvisations and inspired virtuosity. He has been in constant motion, splitting his time between New York and his adopted Germany and has been active as a composer and bandleader, working also with artists as disparate as Dub pioneer Lee “Scratch” Perry and the legendary avant-garde big band the Vienna Art Orchestra. With the rhythmically complex and musically sensitive Clement Benny on drums, this will be a fascinating one-off Grahamstown collaboration.

Venue: DSG Auditorium R70 (Full); R68 (Discounted); R65 (Student) Kesivan Naidoo - see pg 54

performed with the likes of Miriam Makeba, Dizzy Gillespie and Hugh Masekela, with a massive following in Japan where he performs regularly and creates signature basses for Yamaha as a specialist artist. South Africa’s premier jazz drummer, Kevin Gibson, rounds off the South African component. They are joined by Norwegian Arne Hiorth (trumpet), an experienced musician, composer, producer, teacher and project coordinator who has worked with top acts in Norway like Bjørn Eidsvåg, Anja Garbarek and the Oslo Groove Company and he has a long history with music projects in South Africa. Swiss pianist Malcolm Braff has played with South Africans in Europe but this is his first visit to South Africa and his rhythmic complexity – influenced by a childhood in Brazil and Senegal – will help him fit in easily.

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AFRICAN VITALITY

The music of Africa has a freshness and vitality that the world loves and responds to, and jazz musicians around the world are inspired by its rhythms and sounds. Tonight we have three very experienced South African musicians performing with two European musicians, sharing ideas and cultures. Brian Thusi (trumpet) has a doctorate in Music and has been a stalwart in South African jazz for decades, playing with musicians like the African Jazz Pioneers, Sipho Gumede and Caiaphas Semenya. He performs regularly overseas in places as far aﬁeld as Japan, Zambia and Haiti and one of his early collaborators, Victor Masondo (bass), joins him tonight, having

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Venue: DSG Hall R70 (Full); R68 (Discounted); R65 (Student)

MARCUS WYATT QUARTET

Marcus Wyatt is one of South Africa’s leading trumpeters who has travelled extensively, and recorded and played with the likes of Winston Mankunku, Jimmy Dludlu, Courtney Pine, Bheki Mseleku, James Morrison and Abdullah Ibrahim. He recently returned from a tour to India with his successful new project “Language 12” and tonight he gathers some of the best young talent around for a burning late-night session. On piano is Afrika Mkhize, who has spent the past couple of years in Paris soaking up the French jazz scene; on bass is amazing young player Prince Bulo, who was selected for the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band for three years and is now making a serious career for himself professionally; and on drums is Justin Badenhorst, who has also recently returned to South Africa from an extended period in the US, and who has performed with musicians as diverse as Ismael Lo, Judith Sephuma and Steve Hofmeyer. Joining the band as guest is the very talented young vocalist Siya Makuzeni.

Venue: DSG Auditorium R70 (Full); R68 (Discounted); R65 (Student) Marcus Wyatt

Victor Masondo

JAZZ

North Sea Big Band

SUNDAY 27 JUNE

MAIN PROGRAMME

17:00

NORTH SEA BIG BAND

For decades there has been musical interaction between South Africa and Norway and trumpeter Arne Hiorth’s North Sea Big Band - an innovative combination of professionals and students from both countries, drawing on compositions and arrangements from the respective music traditions – is a ﬁne example. The band has performed in Oslo – notably in October 2009 at the invitation of Ambassador Sisulu at the soccer match between Bafana Bafana and Norway at Ullevål Soccer Stadium with the temperature just above zero – and Cape Town and performed in Grahamstown last year for the ﬁrst time. A standard Big Band format is used, drawing on a core of top professional musicians and with 8 of the best students from Scandinavia and South Africa added. This is a Big Band with power and beauty, as well as the intensity of youth. Professionals from South Africa are Shannon Mowday (sax), Melvin Peters (piano) and Prince Bulo (bass); from Norway Frank Brodahl (trumpet) and Arne Hiorth (trumpet), with Finnish saxophonist Jari Perkiömäki, Vice Rector of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

Venue: DSG Hall R70 (Full); R68 (Discounted); R65 (Student)

19:00

BRAFFBLASER DUO

Duo performance in South Africa is a rarity, but this pair from Switzerland makes an orchestra from the simplest of ensembles. Wilbur MacKenzie, New York jazz critic for All About Jazz, enthused about the latest recording of Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser and pianist Malcolm Braff: “The Braff Blaser duo is probably one of the most outstanding duos in Europe. Blaser is joined by the incredible Brazilian pianist Malcolm Braff, who was raised in Dakar, Senegal and the multifaceted rhythmic layering of West African music distinguishes the duo’s approach. Together, they explore all the possibilities of their instruments and allow you to discover the amazing marriage of their talents. The duo offers a unique ﬂavor which consists of rhythmic complexity taken from African folk songs and harmony inﬂuenced by gospel and American classics.”

Venue: DSG Auditorium R70 (Full); R68 (Discounted); R65 (Student)

19:30 STANDARD BANK YOUNG ARTIST:

MELANIE SCHOLTZ – THE FOLKS WHO FEEL JAZZ In her second opportunity to showcase her band leadership and musical direction, Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz 2010, Melanie

JAZZ

Scholtz (vocals) brings together musicians with whom she has not previously worked, drawing inspiration from their disparate cultures and skills. Musical adventure is nothing new for this Young Artist, who has performed extensively in Europe, with recent recordings in Sweden and tours to Norway and Russia, defrosting sub-zero temperatures with the warmth of her voice. She has chosen an ensemble from the North and the South, with a repertoire of contemporary jazz composers, South African and other, whose work has inﬂuenced her music and the person she is. Here she puts herself out on a limb, having to rise to the challenges set her by this collaboration of very talented, hip young musicians. Boundary-breaking trumpeter Marcus Wyatt adds his fresh angle; from Johannesburg comes pianist Afrika Mkhize, one of the most burning young players in the country; from Oslo comes one of Norway’s rising stars, Jo Fougner Skaansar (bass); and from Breda comes Dutch drummer Jasper van Hulten, one of the funkiest young players on the Dutch scene.

Venue: DSG Hall R70 (Full); R68 (Discounted); R65 (Student)

21:00

ERIC VLOEIMANS & ANDILE YENANA

Pianist Andile Yenana, winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Jazz in 2005, has a particularly deft and sensitive touch on the piano, with evocative chord clusters creating shifting moods. He first met Dutch master trumpeter Eric Vloeimans years ago and they jammed briefly with the promise of reuniting. Tonight they finally get the chance to perform. Vloeimans is regarded as one of Europe’s top performers with a phenomenal trumpet technique and range, a sensitivity to all styles of music, a commitment to original composition and a host of awards to acknowledge his successes. Norwegian guitarist Gorm Helfjord, now based in Cape Town, joins them. The list of festival he has performed in provides a sense of his musical diversity: Molde International Jazz Festival, Music Alive Amsterdam, Jeunesses Musicales Paris, Cape Town International Jazz Festival, Oppikoppi, DølaJazz Norway, Rockin the Winelands. On bass is Gulli Gudmundsson, originally from Iceland and now based in The Netherlands where he has become very successful, touring to places as exotic as Columbia, Canada, Spain, Finland and Thailand. The everdependable Kevin Gibson rounds off the band on drums.

Venue: DSG Auditorium R70 (Full); R68 (Discounted); R65 (Student)

Jo Fougner Skaansar

22:00

BJØRN ALTERHAUG QUINTET

Since the late 1960s Norwegian bassist Bjørn Alterhaug has led numerous combos bearing his name, and he has accompanied many international jazz musicians visiting Scandinavia, including Ben Webster, Lee Konitz, Chet Baker, Joe Henderson and others. He has contributed to numerous LPs and CDs, and he has written about 250 compositions for different instrumental combinations and occasions. He is Professor of Jazz at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, and has put together a world-class quintet of two of his university colleagues and two past students, all with

impeccable credentials and jazz performance pedigrees that include collaborations with musicians like Chick Corea, Michael Brecker and Paulo Fresu. Unusual for the jazz world is a quintet with both alto and baritone saxophone, but they combine in such fluid fashion that one wonders why it isn’t a more common combination. The quintet represents five decades of Norwegian jazz influences – one member of the band in his 20s, one in his 30s, another in his 40s, one in his 50s and the last in his 60s. Some of the descriptions of the quintet’s performances from Norwegian jazz reviewers have included: “A firework”, “A bunch of jazz musicians in the world elite” and “This is the best quintet ever heard in Norway”. The band features Frode Nymo (sax), John Pål Inderberg (sax), Vigleik Storaas (piano), Bjørn Alterhaug (bass) and Erik Nylander (drums).

high schools around South Africa. The band brings together the best young school players in the country under the guidance of Terrence Scarr, who is Head of Music at Rondebosch High School in Cape Town, where he conducts the school’s Jazz Band. He has wide-ranging experience in a variety of musical genres and styles and has worked with many top South African musicians, including Tananas, leading a String Orchestra for pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, and playing as a session musician on numerous albums. The irrepressible big band sound is the most popular genre in jazz and a wonderful vehicle for educating young players.

Venue: DSG Hall R40 (Full); R38 (Discounted); R35 (Student)

Venue: DSG Hall R70 (Full); R68 (Discounted); R65 (Student) Bjørn Alterhaug

19:00

YOUNG VOICES OF BRANDENBURG

Repeat performance. See Wednesday 23 June 19.30.

Venue: DSG Auditorium R40 (Full); R38 (Discounted); R35 (Student)

19:30

PRISONERS OF STRANGE

In the 1970s an eager young bass prodigy – Carlo Mombelli – emerged under the tutelage of guitar maestro Johnny Fourie and took every opportunity available to learn from other musicians and explore new approaches to sound. Three decades later the same exploratory, vibrant approach is the hallmark of the music of Mombelli, now ﬁrmly established as one of South Africa’s most interesting musicians and composers. The decades have seen Mombelli in Europe for an extended period, where he played with Lee Konitz and Egberto Gismonti, inﬂuenced by the European avant gard, and then an eclectic set of collaborations in South Africa, including musicians such as Marcus Wyatt, Sibongile Khumalo, Miriam Makeba and Simphiwe Dana. Mombelli’s focal project over the past seven years has been The Prisoners of Strange - which now features Carlo Mombelli (bass), Siya Makuzeni (vocals, trombone), Marcus Wyatt (trumpet) and Justin Badenhorst (drums) – where the band offers evocative explorations of new soundscapes, taking jazz to fascinating places.

Venue: DSG Auditorium R70 (Full); R68 (Discounted); R65 (Student)

French poly-instrumentalist and iconoclast Braka is a drummer/ sound-effects-maker/vocalist passionate about jazz and the sounds that emerge from objects, toys and electronics. His constant search for new sounds to enhance his musical expression has led him through a maze of experiences: a Jazz-Rock band, acting in a street company and touring the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, South Africa and Yemen. The South African mirror to this approach is, of course, bassist extraordinaire Carlo Mombelli, who has been wooing audiences for decades with his inventive use of everyday objects, turning a child’s rattle into a mesmerising jazz riff or a car spring into the percussive essence of his next composition. Mombelli and Braka have combined their exploratory quartets – based separately in Paris and Johannesburg – for a fascinating double quartet project. Besides the music they have composed for the double quartet, the French musicians have rearranged music of Joburg from the 50’s and 60’s – French/Braka style - and likewise the South Africans have rearranged French tunes - South African/Carlo style. From South Africa come Siya Makuzeni (vocals, trombone), Marcus Wyatt (trumpet), Carlo Mombelli (bass) and Justin Badenhorst (drums), and from France come Lucia Recio (vocals), Nicolas Stephan (sax), Daniel Malavergne (tuba) and Braka (trombone, drums).

MAIN PROGRAMME

23:30

PARIS-JOBURG PROJECT

Venue: DSG Hall R70 (Full); R68 (Discounted); R65 (Student)

MONDAY 28 JUNE

Standard Bank National Schools’ Big Band

Each year the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival sets the stage for a national search for the ﬁnest young jazz talent in the country. Hopefuls between 13 and 26 years get the chance to play their hearts out for a prestigious place in one of two national bands – one at school level, and one representing the best players under the age of 26. See these newly-selected bands comprising the country’s top young jazz players performing together for the ﬁrst time at 17.00 and 22.00.