Flatfoot hosts summer school
Dancers are encouraged to attend a summer school with Flatfoot Dance Company.
THE award winning Flatfoot Dance Company will host its second annual four-day dance Summer School from 16 to 19 December.
This intensive Summer School is aimed at pushing the technical skills of dancers in the contemporary idiom and will allow dancers, still training or already professional, to work in an environment with skilled choreographers, teachers and workshop facilitators.
The technical dance training will work in Flatfoot’s own ‘African Release Technique’, which is a confluence of Graham, Hawkins, Horton and the American Skinner Release Technique. Dancers who participate in the full programme will also work on choreography towards a performance at the end of the four days. The Summer Intensive Teaching Team from the Flatfoot Dance Company includes Lliane Loots, Clare Craighead, Sifiso Khumalo, Sifiso Majola, Julia Wilson, Jabu Siphika and Zinhle Nzama.
There are two levels at which dancers can participate in the programme. The first option is the full four day Summer School Programme which will run from 9.30am to 3pm across the four days. There is also a second option to partake only in the four morning technique classes which will run each day from 9.30am to 11.15am.
The Summer School will take place at the Flatfoot Dance Studio and Square Space Theatre, both of which are on UKZN’s Howard College Campus, Durban. The cost of the full programme is R520 and the option of only the four technique classes is R320. Applicants must contact Clare Craighead on 082 875 6065 or craighead@ukzn.ac.za (in the subject line type “summer school”) to secure their place for either Option 1 or 2 in Flatfoot’s Intensive Summer School.
