[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By TAMMY BALLANTYNE Gaby Saranouffi: #MOI project 2020 – A socially conscious artistic voice in a landscape of violence Gaby Saranouffi’s infectious smile and generous laugh punctuate all her...
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By TAMMY BALLANTYNE Pest Control / Conceptualised, choreographed, performed and directed by Mamela Nyamza / Visual National Arts Festival Pest Control is Mamela Nyamza’s angry ode to injustice. Her...
By TAMMY BALLANTYNE Dance Umbrella 2015 / Double bill: The Architecture of Tears and fight, flight, feathers, f***ers / March 3 and 4, Dance Factory Images of flight, buoyancy, human bodies airborne, pervaded this double bill at Dance Factory....
By TAMMY BALLANTYNE Site-specific cross-genre and cross-cultural performance works have long been a feature at many of our arts festivals and other platforms across the country: we’ve watched Jay Pather’s Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre on the Durban beachfront, in...
By TAMMY BALLANTYNE It would most likely be true to say that after summiting Mount Meru and Mount Kilimanjaro a year ago, most other walking trips could be considered tame by comparison. This thought had crossed my mind when I signed up to travel to Victoria,...