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Deconstructed ballet: Hatched Ensemble speaks to anyone who has felt conflicted about their own identity and where they belong in the status quo. Photo: Val Adamson
AFRICAN PERFORMANCE ART

Mamela Nyamza’s global triumph, ‘Hatched Ensemble’, comes home for two nights only

Internationally celebrated dancer Mamela Nyamza returns home with two powerful productions interrogating identity, colonial legacies and belonging through bold, deconstructed…

  • Unathi Kondile
5 min read
AFRICAN STORYTELLING

Vuyelwa Maluleke’s ‘The Blue Album’ and the language of return

A one-woman performance that confronts memory, violence and complicity, as Vuyelwa Maluleke reclaims language to tell a black queer township story on her own terms

  • Lesego Chepape
7 min read
Convergence: Trevor Stuurman’s beaded bicycle, the centrepiece of the exhibition A Grammar of Belonging, is an object where his personal memory and colonial history converge. Photos: Supplied
A GRAMMAR OF BELONGING

Where memory meets movement

‘A Grammar of Belonging’ reframes home as something carried within the body, shaped by memory, history and shared traditions of making

  • Zingisa Mase
3 min read