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ADDN JOMBA! ABILITY FESTIVAL

22-26 August 2024

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Welcome to the ADDN-JOMBA Festival-Colloquium 2024!

The JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience has a long history of including diverse and integrated dance work in its programming. In 2022, JOMBA’s curator Lliane Loots (UKZN, SA) teamed up with Yvette Hutchison (University of Warwick, UK) to work on the UKRI-funded project Encountering disability through contemporary dance in Africa, which explores widening citizenship through dance. As part of this project, Hutchison and Loots set up the African Dance Disability Network.

In 2023, JOMBA! programmed three specific integrated pieces by collaborators on the project into its main festival: The Netherlands Introdans’s Hub Club, Ugandan Joseph Tebandeke’s Time Machine: Unveiling the Inner Strength and South African Unmute Dance Company’s Time Lapse. This 2024 festival-colloquium precedes the main JOMBA! festival as an extension of this initiative. It offers time and space for shared embodied workshops, panel discussions of key issues and collective sharing of some amazing work by artists from Africa and across the globe in the evening performances. We hope that you engage fully and take much from the next 4 days as we collaboratively explore Disability as Gain.

Yvette Hutchison

(University of Warwick, UK)

&

Lliane Loots

(University of KwaZulu-Natal, SA & Curator of JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience [CCA])

Evening Performances Booking through:

BOOKING FOR A WORKSHOP AND JOINING PANEL DISCUSSIONS: email Marcia Mzindle

DAILY PROGRAMME

 Thursday 22 August (Stable Theatre)

 PERFORMANCE:

  • 5pm: Opening Night Welcome
  1. Dr Ismail Mahomed (Director: Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal)
  2. Yvette Hutchison (Warwick University, UK and co-chair of ADDN)
  • 5:20pm:
  1. the infinite space between us – FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY and the FLATFOOT Wheelchair programme.

Choreography by Lliane Loots in collaboration with the dancers

  1. now that we are here … – FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY and the FLATFOOT Downie Dance Company.

Choreography by Lliane Loots in collaboration with the dancers

Friday 23 August (Stable Theatre)

WORKSHOPS 1 &2: Engaging Deaf Gain in Practice:

#1: 9.30 – 10.45am: Zhiling Guo (China/UK)

#2: 11am – 12.15pm: Andile Vellem (South Africa)

PANEL DIALOGUES #1: THINKING ABOUT DISABILITY AS GAIN

1.30 – 3.30pm

Host: Yvette Hutchison

Panelists: Andile Vellem (SA), Zhiling Guo (China), Jessi Parrot (UK), Nadine MacKenzie (SA) and Sarahleigh Castelyn (SA/UK)

PERFORMANCES:

  • 6pm
  1. Nyanam – DANCE INTO SPACE (Kenya). Choreography by Onyango Ondiege Matthew

~ Interval ~

  1. METHOD (2023) – MOMENTA Dance Company (USA). Choreography by Julia Cox & Kris Lenzo
  1. And Yet We Are Here (Excerpt) – Unfolding Disability Futures (UDF) – USA. Choreography by Deb Goodman and Sydney Erlikh (with Dancers)

Saturday 24 August (Stable Theatre)

WORKSHOPS 3 & 4:

#3: 9.30 – 10.45am: Dancing into Space …
Onyango Ondiege Matthew and DANCE INTO SPACE (Kenya)

#4: 11am – 12.15pm: Dancing alongside – shared embodied strategies for integrated processes

Lliane Loots and FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY (South Africa)

PANEL DIALOGUE #2: SHARING THE STORY OF FREE FALL DANCE COMPANY (UK)

1.30 – 3.30pm

Lee Fischer and Tom Rogers from Birmingham Royal Ballet and Freefall Dance Company will share the ‘Freefall’ story, the joys and challenges of how a community of dancers with learning disabilities interfaces and collaborates with a renowned classical ballet company.

Host: Yvette Hutchison

PERFORMANCES:

  • 6pm
  1. Bells and Sirens – Choreography by Thapelo Kotlolo (South Africa)

~ Interval ~

  1. Women’s Perspective – DANCE MOVEMENT (South Africa). Choreography by Jarryd Watson (South Africa)

 

 Sunday 25 August

WORKSHOP #5: (Transhaven Centre)

10am – 12noon: Dancing with Wheelchairs

Sydney Erlikh (USA) and Kris Lenzo (USA)

PANEL DIALOGUE #3: Digital Dance and Disability (Stable Theatre)

1.45 – 2.45pm

Host: Lliane Loots

Sharing work: Riina Hannuksela (Finland) & Gladys Agulhas (South Africa)

 

PANEL DIALOGUE #4: Significance of festivals for developing Inclusive dance and audiences (Stable Theatre)

3 – 4pm

Host: Yvette Hutchison

Panelists: Lliane Loots (SA), Ondiege Matthew (Kenya), Thapelo Kotlolo (SA), Sydney Erlikh (USA)

 

WORKSHOP #5 : ONLINE DIGITAL “STARSHIP SOMATIC WORKSHOP” (Stable Theatre/Online)

4.15 – 5pm

Petra Kuppers (USA)

HOST: Yvette Hutchison

 

PERFORMANCE:

6pm:

  1. Listen to my hands – Unmute Dance Theatre. Choreography by Andile Vellem and Company

~ Interval ~

  1. Isikhalo Sendoda (The cry of a man) – Unmute Dance Theatre. Choreographed and Performed by Andile Vellem