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A visually arresting, multidisciplinary spectacle challenges both narrative clarity and audience comfort, raising questions about how theatre must evolve for modern spectators

‘mAnJE! MaNJe (an epic)’ demands prompt attention at The Baxter

A visually arresting, multidisciplinary spectacle challenges both narrative clarity and audience comfort, raising questions about how theatre must evolve for modern spectators

Improvising the image: The Centre for the Less Good Idea hosted the second iteration of their expansive experimentation with intention, deep listening and meaning-making: Sounding Pictures. Photos: Zivanai Matangi

Lost in Joburg, found in sound

Stripping films of their original scores, ‘Sounding Pictures’ invites musicians and audiences alike into a charged, unpredictable experiment in collective interpretation

Flicking through: Musician Msaki and artist and composer Neo Muyanga collaborate on her film Kuthi Mandithethe at Sounding Pictures, an exploration of live scores to short silent films.

Picturing the sounds of silence

Sound and silence collided in Sounding Pictures at The Centre for the Less Good Idea in Joburg

Striking: Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero was choreographed by Gregory Maqoma.

Diary: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero, BMW Art Generation, live scores to silent films

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Portia Zvavahera’s Maruva akaburitswa tiri mugomo (We received flowers) from her new exhibition, 2020. (Courtesy of Stevenson gallery)

Don’t Miss: A weekly round-up of virtual and in-person events

From art exhibitions to live jazz, we’ve got your weekend programming sorted

‘Making Grace Amazing’, by composer Neo Muyanga, uses sound, writing and moving image to peer into the complex history of this hymn

Review: ‘Making Grace Amazing’ — songs of resistance

Neo Muyanga’s ‘Making Grace Amazing’ is one of the online offerings at this year’s National Arts Festival in Makhanda

Jazzed-up: The Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz, trumpet player Mandla Mlangeni. (Rafs Mayet)

Makhanda: No more lullabies

The National Arts Festival offers space for reflection about our fractious global moment

Side-effect: Museum of Lungs interrogates the conditions of being sick, where Stacy Hardy uses a puppet to represent herself

Museum of Lungs: A fight to survive

A play about coming to terms with living with serious illness is an indictment of society

Neo Muyanga: ‘That’s why these xenophobic eruptions are such an aberration because these have been the blood relations of our folk for the past 100 years.’

Muyanga settles old scores on a visible stage

His years’ long research into the role of local music in protest is being aired at the National Arts Festival, Kwanele Sosibo writes

Msaki takes it easy on her way up

Singer Msaki still prefers the quiet of East London even as she readies for the world stage.

Tim Harris believes that President Jacob Zuma is not providing sufficient support to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.

Nonparticipation hinders growth

Accelerated growth hinges on the state president giving the finance minister his full backing.

On the sunny side

After finally managing to release their second album, Blk Sonshine tell Percy Mabandu what keeps them inspired.

Clockwise, with harp and violin

Two talented young classical musicians, violinist Marc Uys and harpist Jacqueline Kerrod, have joined forces, both personally and professionally.