NW Cultural Calabash calling for theatre for festival
There’s a theatre festivan in the North West called Calabash and it’s happening in September and if you are a professional director or actor, dancer or musician and have a play or entertaining act to propose for the bill, you better get going and submit your info. Don’t think the post will get your entries in on time (BY NEXT WEEK FRI 10 MAY) so maybe check out their blog and see if you can make …a deal. Or email the address at the bottom! Here it is: The North West Cultural Calabash seeks to commission new productions for the event that happens 22 – 25 September 2006. The closing for professional productions wishing to take part in this year’s Calabash festival must hurry up. The closing date for submissions is 10 May. The Calabash is seeking new drama, dance and music productions that will premiere at the event to be held in Taung during Heritage week end in September. Professional companies wishing to submit their productions to the Calabash must include full company and contact details, as well as a proposal about the proposed production. An affordable budget must also be submitted. Preference will be given to new productions that will premiere at the Calabash in September. There are only space for nine new productions on the programme. The submissions will be scritinised by an Artistic Panel and the Executive Committee will give final approval beginning June. Submissions must be sent to the Festival Coordinator, North West Cultural Calabash, Private Bag x2170, Mmabatho, 2735. For more information, contact the Festival Coordinator on telephone 018 392 4100. Email: hennieb@mmabana.org.za Telephone Number: 018 392 4100 Cellphone Number: 083 698 7998 Website: http://culturalcalabash.blogspot.com Artslink.co.za News www.artslink.co.za 082 230 CALL 082 230...
DJ’s: RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY APPLICATIONS OPEN
This year the academy is in Australia … in the arty city of Melbourne. Every year red Bull invites DJ’s and Producers to submit their applications to be a part of the party and to learn from the best during the conference. You have from now till June to make a plan and if you have to post a cd you better get going. There are information briefings all around the country: DURBAN Date: Thursday… 4th May Venue: De La Sol : 258 Florida Road Time 7- 9 Speakers: Ectomorph, The Real Estate Agents CAPE TOWN Date : Friday 5th May Venue: HQ : 8 Dixon Street, Green Point Time 7- 9 Speakers: Ectomorph, G-Force JOHANNESBURG Date : Saturday 6th May Venue: Loaded Carfax: 39 Pim Street, Newtown Time 7- 9 Speakers: Ectomorph, The Real Estate Agents The events are free – and up n coming artists and producers are encouraged to bring their demos down to the events. OR SIMPLY CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE SITE FOR ALL THE INFO YOU NEED Here’s a bit from the site: This year the yellow brick road leads to Oz: Melbourne, the jewel of Australia’s South. Melbourne is a multi-cultural and arts-oriented city of 3.2 million, and has long been a favourite outpost for musicians and artists of all kinds. The ideal place for the gifted to gather and trade tips? No doubt! Imagine the chance to gather with 30 of your peers from 28 countries, to stay up late swapping samples and crazy tales – or jamming with one of your musical heroes in an impromptu session at the custom-built Academy studios. Then to blow the roof off the joint as you all get down to each other’s sets in clubs across the city. The vibe is incomparable, and for all who attend, life-changing – a musical utopia cookin’ with gas. Want to be part of this year’s escapade? It’ll all go down in Melbourne during Term One (Sept 24 – Oct 6, 2006) and Term Two (Oct 15 – Oct 27, 2006). The application form is available from April 14th to June 3rd. All applications must be postmarked no later than June 3rd. You can keep track of further news by signing up for our newsletter, and click back for regular updates and new features, covering all styles of electronic music today, by those who make and live it....
Rooftop dance performance in Durban
COME on DURBAN – remember that you have a reputation to fix when it comes to attendance…Here is a cheap and unique sounding event and it’s under the stars on a rooftop! Go and catch this dance-piece featuring 28 dancers on a rooftop exploring the concept of “seeking freedom by going to extremes” which is paralleled with the ancient Greek Myth of ICARUS… and his melting wings… “Without Fear of Vertigo” takes place under the stars from 20 – 22 April at 7pm. Tickets cost R10. For more information contact Claudette Wagner on 260 3134 (office hours only). Before we tell you about their concept… Have you heard the story of ICARUS from Greek Mythology? Depending on how you interpret it, there are various morals to the story – but in essence it’s about not going to extremes, it’s about living in moderation, on a more simple level it’s about listening to those older and wiser than you, it’s also about accepting that there are things that you cannot do and places that you cannot go to… This is how the myth goes – ICARUS was the son of Daedalus – a well respected and known inventor – for various reasons that you can read about yourself, Daedalus needed to escape his island of Crete. He made some wings for both of them that would enable them to fly away from Crete. As they were flying Icarus was warned not to go too high nor too low, too high would mean the wax would melt on his wings and too low would mean that the wings would get damp and not work… Of course ICARUS got a bit carried away during the trip and decided to push his luck and go to extremes… he flew way too close to the sun which obviously melted his wings and he fell into the sea, to his death. Here’s the PR from the FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY: ‘ICARUS WAS A WOMAN’ Flatfoot Dance Company in conjunction with the Drama and Performance Studies Programme (UKZN – Durban) presents a fresh work entitled “Without Fear of Vertigo”. The production is a symbiosis of contemporary dance and text, written and choreographed by award winning Lliane Loots, after being inspired by her travels to Europe last year. “Without Fear of Vertigo” is a bold venture into the re-writing and re-creation of myth that speaks of contemporary issues for a contemporary South Africa, posing the questions: What if Icarus was a woman? What if Icarus came from the Southern tip of Africa and what if she suffered from vertigo? The performance aptly coincides with the dawning of Freedom...
Hot party in Newtown with ISOLEE
We’ve never heard of this guy before but we can tell you that his name means ISOLATED in French. We can also tell you that he has one of the most gorgeous websites we have seen in a long long time… And we can also tell you that two of our cousin websites Rage.co.za and JHBLIVE.com are behind the concert so it has to be a hot party! It’s on a Wednesday ni…ght 25 April at the interesting MILLS building in Newtown… we’ll see you there! Click here to go to Isolee’s website. Well Who Needs Sleep on the night before the Freedom Day public holiday anyway? That’s a question easily answered when the event planned includes one of the most influential and unique electronic music artists the world has seen in the past ten years. The event is taking place at The Mills 66 Carr Street Newtown on Wednesday 26 April 2006. Isolýe’s (Rajko Mueller) genre defying music has caught the attention of the masses as well as remained quirky and underground. His 1998 single Beau Mot Plage launched him into dance music’s hall of fame as it broke boundaries and sold singles by the truck load. Originally signed to the German label Playhouse, it was not long before it got a bigger and more exposured and then released through Derrick Carters and Luke Solomon’s Classic label. The track was put on compilations as diverse as ‘Defected In The House 5’ and techno don Luke Slater’s ‘Fear and Loathing 2’. He has also been commissioned to remix greats in the music biz such as Louis Vega, Blaze, Recloose, Tiga and many more. His latest album We Are Monster, released in June 2005 was another groundbreaking release receiving praise from peers and reviewers alike. The event is certainly one not to be missed by anyone who is a keen electronic music fundy. Playing alongside Isolýe is local Digital Rockit trio Fabio, G Force and Dogstarr. For further information click here....
Review: HOSTEL – take a friend
It’s been a long time since we went to a movie where someone left because they were too grossed out to watch anymore. But that’s what happened when we went to watch HOSTEL this week. Maybe it’s because there were only about ten of us in the audience… So there was more of a spooky feel. But this young lady just got up and RAN out of the cinema… wh… en we all stood up and left at the end, there she was, patiently waiting outside for her friend, her eyes still dilated from what she had seen. Now we’re no Movie buffs, in fact we are just everyday people that enjoy good stories. HOSTEL has been the first horror in a long time that actually had us SCARED and FREAKED OUT. In our world we found HOSTEL to be extremely graphic and very gory – we warn all sensitve viewers to stay well away. In our opinion, NO TEENAGERS or CHILDREN should see this film – they will be affected for a long time. During our ‘post-chair-gripping’ discussion, there were two points about the film that came out strongly that in our minds made it really horrific for us – 1. One of the guys with us is European – as in he comes from Europe… Now for anyone that has spent time in Europe, you will know that some of the EASTERN EUROPEAN countries like ROMANIA, SLOVAKIA and YUGOSLAVIA are all shrouded in a cloud of poverty, desperation, terror and corruption. Well for those that live in Western Europe anyway. If you think South African’s battle with Xenophobia, you should see how well the Western Europeans do when it comes to their neighbours. HOSTEL plays on these negative attitudes and deep-rooted apprehension about anything EASTERN… So for a Western European, in a sense, it brings your worst nightmares about travelling East to life. We’re sure SLOVAKIA must be p*d off. 2. On that note, there was something about HOSTEL that played on our vulnerability as South Africans. Something about the underground, about dark, depressing crime and criminal activities that gives life to the night-time fears of South Africans. For us the place they found themselves in, with street gangs of kids and where nearly every person looks and feels dangerous could be compared to a night in the dregs of Hillbrow or any other seriously scary ghetto or part of ghetto in SA. We did enjoy the acting – the three ‘tourists’ were such typical naive, spoilt westerners (dare we say AMERIC…) and in a sense their irritating desire to get as much NOOKIE as possible on...
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