Russian’s full? No worries – Afrika is calling your name!
Don’t despair if you can’t get tickets to the Russian Ballet ‘SWAN LAKE’ because it’s sold out already, the gorgeous dancers from Ballet Theatre Afrikan are on at the Market Theatre in Newtown and then later this month at SPIER in the Cape. Based on the wonderful stories of Rudyard Kipling and featuring the incredibleONG legs of Thoriso, the breathe-taking choreography of Martin Schýnberg, Thoriso and Christopher Kindo never-mind the lithe agile talent of the extraodinary BTA dancers, we highly recommend that you catch this show. Is it obvious that we’re fans? “…when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself…waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.”R. Kipling On its 10th Anniversary, Ballet Theatre Afrikan makes its mark as a creative, classically based dance company producing unique and indigenous works. Artistic Director Martin Schýnberg produces and directs Rudyard Kipling’s beloved “Just So Stories” in a collaborative and colourful production with an original score. “Just So…The cat that walked through Kipling”, is a cat’s walk through the thought-provoking Kipling fables, weaving the themes of evolution and domestication of the planet throughout the ballet. One of South Africa’s leading jazz pianists and composers, classically-trained Wessel van Rensburg has created an inspired score, drawing on his love of fantasy and skill for improvisation. Consummate percussionist Magda de Vries will be part of the musical quartet playing live, and actress and singer Dominique Paccaut will narrate and link the thread between each tale. With stories as diverse as “How the leopard got his spots”, “How the rhinoceros got his skin” and “The cat that walked by himself”, three contrasting choreographers will interpret the fables, ensuring a wide range of dance styles: Chris Kindo, Martin Schýnberg and Thoriso Magongwa evoke interest with their diverse choreographic vocabularies. The production will appeal to both young and old and will premiere at the Market Theatre on 25 February and tour extensively including the Spier Festival from 30 March – 1 April and the Gauteng area. “Just So…The cat that walked through Kipling” will provoke thought, entice visually and beguile spectators with exhilarating entertainment… Don’t miss it!...
New Friday party “Nightshift” in Braamies
We love coming across other youth culture music etc orientated websites… Today Shakes (Sharpile) introduced us to AMUSEAFRICA for the first time.. NIce one! Click here to go there! It’s a site focusing on HIP HOP and other music events around the country,: “The popular SA hiphop website. plus other good music for your soul “. They got… some cool parties on the site… including a new weekly gig at Sugar Reef in the Heartlands in Braamfontein. It kicks off next Friday 24 Feb and then will be a weekly event – we can’t wait to get soulful at Nightshift. Event: Nightshift Venue: Sugar Reef Venue Type: Lounge Address: Cnr Juta & Henri, Braamfontein Date: Friday, 24th Feb 2005 (Then every Friday) Performances: live! bands + DJs Music: soul/funk, hiphop, acid-jazz Entry: R50 – Ladies free before 9 Time: 8pm Ages: 21+ MORE ON THE SITE AND THE NIGHT: AMUSEAFRICA.COM/LIVE! goal is to create excitement around urban live music by showcasing South Africa’s hottest established and emerging artists. They promise to leverage South African’s iconic music and expertise to create a compelling connection between musicians — old and new – and in the process, establish itself as one of Jozi’s premiere showcase rooms for live jazz, hip-hop, funk, acid-jazz, and everything in between — progressive but not out-of-touch, soulful but not soft. All this excitement happens every Friday night at Sugar Reef, located in the Heartlands entertainment hub in Braamfontein, with the opening night on 24 February. AMUSEAFRICA.COM/LIVE! has an extensive following who will pleased to know they have a new home base at Sugar Reef and can look forward to electrifying musical combinations to tantalise the soul. Organiser of AMUSEAFRICA.COM/LIVE! Shakes Mkhonza adds, “We will provide the perfect platform to spotlight South African urban live music and artists alongside the cream of music legends, established artists and entrepreneurs. It’s a programme that will enhance the participation of up, coming and independent artists. Helping them to access sustainable business opportunities, promotions and contact with industry players.” For more info please visit AMUSE AFRICA (click here). Company or group bookings also available (dial)...
CONGRATULATIONS TO TSOTSI! Hola Magents!
WELL DONE TO THE ENTIRE CAST AND CREW !!! Here’s to you guys… you make us proud to be South African and to share our lives and stories with the world… and in such a brilliant way. This century is ours. Watch us continue to rise and shine. World here we are – keep watching! Click here to see …Gavin Hood’s acceptance speech. Click here to go to the GORGEOUS TSOTSI website. ACCEPTANCE SPEECH God bless Africa. Wow. I have a speech, it’s in my pocket, but that thing says 38 seconds. But mine’s way too long. Go to tsotsi.com and there is a huge long list of people. Because I’m accepting this not for myself. This is for best foreign language film. It is sitting right there to start with. Please stand up Presley Chweneyagae and Terry Pheto. My two fantastic young leads. Put the cameras on them, please. Viva Africa. Viva. I’ve got ten seconds. Ten seconds I just want to thank my fellow nominees who I’ve become deep friends with. We may have foreign language films, but our stories are the sames your stories. They’re about the human heart and emotion. It says please wrap. Thank you so much. Thank you to the Academy. Thank...
BOOK YOUR PLACE – World Class Animation Workshop
The world of animation keeps on keeping on what with the phenomenon of South African based MANGA and ANIMATION magazines such as LO (click here to go there) and others animation seems to be finally taking off. Here’s your chance to take part in a workshop featuring international Animation experts…. PR: Anamazing Workshop and its partners in the Animat…ion Production Training Initiative (APTI), the Department of Arts and Culture, the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), SABC and NEMISA are hosting a world class animation writing workshop in Johannesburg on March 13th and 14th. APTI partners are delighted at the participation of respected animation writers and mentors Penelope Middleboe and Martin Lamb. Middleboe and Lamb of the UK based company Right Angle have written and script edited around 90 animated films. They work solely in the areas of adaptation and fiction for adult and family audiences and are respected for their work on projects that embrace cultural diversity. They are currently completing the world’s largest co-production, the 39 part series, Animated Tales of the World. Their works includes the Oscar nominated Canterbury Tales, the Banff winner, Moby Dick and BAFTA winner Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The APTI workshop follows on the selection of 16 writers from across the country. These writers had submitted their projects to a national call for 3 minute animation film concepts for children. Intensive script and production development will result in 13 short films due for broadcast and distribution early 2007. Writers and animation fans keen to develop their animation writing skills are invited to reserve their place for the workshop by emailing CATI...
5FM is the lonely finger…. heh?
SO you know it’s 5fm. Mhhmmm bit of a let down. Nice idea though. ********************************************************** Last night while travelling along Empire road near Milpark we spotted some posters spread all over a messy wall, craning my head to see if i read correctly, i saw a drawing of a spooky face with the words “lonelyfinger.co.za”…. Now not every poster catches our eye, but there was something really appealing about the aesthetics of this one, which instantly got us wondering. Cick here to start wondering… So today we went to check the site out and were pleasantly suprised… it is a beautifully designed although somewhat dark and downer site… Our guess is that it’s about depression – but don’t hold us to that. Although the layout of the site reminds us of those online games that you have to spend hours on looking for clues and a secret click-spot…. the only place that had a slight hint at something more was the telephone booth with a blurry number on it – any ideas? But we don’t give up that easily… we went and did a search on google (of course) and found a photo of Jason Bagley on 43 Things standing with the lonelyfinger….click here to go there. Then we looked Jason up and it turns out he is a web designer in Cape Town, click here for his blog. Question is how does he know the lonelyfinger? We have emailed him and await his response… we love a challenge! Thanks to those busy bees at Marketing Web, we have a little more insight into the lonelyfinger.co.za – apparently all will be revealed on the 24 February 2006. They seem to think it’s an advertising ploy – maybe it’s the money behind the whole concept that suggests this, maybe not, maybe it’s just a creative guy giving us out own post secret? Well bring on the 24 Feb. Click here for Marketing Web article: Some odd television and radio commercials portraying a lonely finger and directing audiences to a website www.lonelyfinger.co.za are part of a campaign for a mystery product or service. Some 10,000 curious people visited the website in the first two weeks it was up and running – it went live on December 22 — but were left no wiser about its origins. The website shows a sad finger involved in various lonely activities. Speculation is rife about who’s behind the campaign. High on the list of contenders are Jupiter, Net#work BBDO and maybe Ogilvy. Apparently all will be revealed on February 24. ******************** IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE LONELY FINGER – email Editorista….or leave a...
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