Dancing in a digital space

IN the wake of the COVID-19 and its impact on live performance, JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience, is calling for Fringe applications for its online 2020 edition in August/September.

“It is clear that we will not be able to deliver JOMBA! in the same manner as previous years,” said JOMBA”s artistic director Lliane Loots.

“Covid-19 has shifted the arts world very significantly and we will remain one of the hardest hit sectors both now and even post Covid-19. But as an artistic entity, which offers a time and space for artists to engage in serious and important new art and dance-making for audiences, we believe we must continue with our work and so have begun planning in an environment of fragile uncertainty for a re-visioned digital JOMBA! 2020.”

Professional, experimental and up-coming choreographers, dancers and dance companies are invited to apply for participation on the JOMBA! Digital Fringe platform.

As JOMBA! is a contemporary dance festival, works that are located within the broad spectrum of contemporary dance will be considered, and preference will be given to South African and African submissions.

For the JOMBA! Digital Fringe, works that are specifically conceived, and created for film and for a digital platform, and that develop interesting dynamics between dance and screen/digital/film disciplines will be considered.

A panel of experts (local and international) will adjudicate the works presented as part of the JOMBA! Digital Fringe, and the ‘Pick-of-the-Fringe’ works will be announced publicly.

Application forms which outline all the submission criteria can be requested via e-mail from jombafestival@gmail.com with the subject line Request for 2020 JOMBA fringe application form. Applications close at 4pm on Friday 10 July.

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