As a journalist I meet many inspiring people, who share their art with the audience here in the Netherlands. Festivals like Afrovibes (dance & theatre mainly from South Africa) are known to be a vibrant melting pot of up coming artists with the potential to give me an insight of what is really going on in their society. Afrovibes is this September (25th) and October in the Netherlands and the UK. Read my articles for this coming event...
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Ushering in James Ngcobo
A portrait of the new artistic director of Afrovibes
A new face will appear during the first Afrovibes event of this year. It’s the cheerful face
Read the whole article here on the website of Afrovibes
A dancer who leaves his imprints on the stage
Interview with Qudus Onikeku
Dance has always been at the centre of the Afrovibes Festival. This year's visitors should not miss the strong dance piece My Exile is in my Head by emerging choreographer and dancer Qudus Onikeku (1984). He is a performer from Nigeria who is spreading his art via France to the rest of the world. The performance he will present at Afrovibes is inspired by the writings of Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, as well as by his own experience of living far away from home.
Performance poets provide true festival mood
World premiere Three Furies at Afrovibes 2012 programme launch
Everyone who can't wait for the Afrovibes festival to begin is in for a special treat this month. This year's festival programme will be announced at MC Theatre in Amsterdam on 13 April. The event will get the audience into the right mood for September's festival and will be topped up with the world premiere of a production by three emerging performing poets. These fierce and fiery young women: Zena Edwards (UK), Mbali Vilakazi (South Africa) and Clara Opoku (Ghana/the Netherlands), come from different parts of the world, but share one important emotion: their fury. The piece, Three Furies, was created intercontinentally with modern media - Skype and email - providing the common workspace. 13 April will be the first time the three join each other live on stage.
Read the whole article here on the website of Afrovibes
A new face will appear during the first Afrovibes event of this year. It’s the cheerful face
of James Ngcobo (1969), Afrovibes’ new artistic director. His presence during the
festival programme launch party this coming month is not something to be modest
about. It'll be the first time a Dutch audience has a chance to meet him and get to know
what drives him. He will bring the most exciting performances to the Netherlands from
upcoming and well-known African artists, who currently showing their work in South
African theatres. But before Afrovibes will announce the highlights of this year's festival
in autumn, the newfound curator deserves an introduction.
Read the whole article here on the website of Afrovibes
A dancer who leaves his imprints on the stage
Interview with Qudus Onikeku
Dance has always been at the centre of the Afrovibes Festival. This year's visitors should not miss the strong dance piece My Exile is in my Head by emerging choreographer and dancer Qudus Onikeku (1984). He is a performer from Nigeria who is spreading his art via France to the rest of the world. The performance he will present at Afrovibes is inspired by the writings of Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, as well as by his own experience of living far away from home.
Read the whole article here on the website of Afrovibes
Performance poets provide true festival mood
World premiere Three Furies at Afrovibes 2012 programme launch
Everyone who can't wait for the Afrovibes festival to begin is in for a special treat this month. This year's festival programme will be announced at MC Theatre in Amsterdam on 13 April. The event will get the audience into the right mood for September's festival and will be topped up with the world premiere of a production by three emerging performing poets. These fierce and fiery young women: Zena Edwards (UK), Mbali Vilakazi (South Africa) and Clara Opoku (Ghana/the Netherlands), come from different parts of the world, but share one important emotion: their fury. The piece, Three Furies, was created intercontinentally with modern media - Skype and email - providing the common workspace. 13 April will be the first time the three join each other live on stage.
Read the whole article here on the website of Afrovibes
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