Loves’ own cruelty

DURBAN’S inimitable Flatfoot Dance Company has forged a new partnership with the KZNSA Gallery, which starts its 2016 performance calendar with a one-off specially conceptualised performance work on Friday 19 February at 6pm.

The work uses all the spaces of the KZNSA to evoke a journey through a site, a journey through the tricky inner and outer terrain of love relationships that echo in the big and small spaces of the gallery.

Titled Loves own cruelty, Flatfoot take a wry, fierce and sometimes humorous look at love relationships that never back down from honestly and truth; and all the grey area in between that is the very fabric of human connections. Flatfoot has a reputation for offering politically charged dance theatre and this work is no exception. Small site-specific relationship vignettes play out between dancers who seamlessly move and flow between one another in close encounters. The gallery space allows for a more intimate engagement with the dance work and is ideal for a slightly voyeuristic look into the lives of others.

Choreographed by Lliane Loots in collaboration with the five resident dancers, Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Tshediso Kabulu, Sanele Maphumulo and Zinhle Nzama, catch this award winning dance company up close and personal.

The cast also includes UK guest dancer, and artist in residence with Flatfoot Dance Company, Iona Waite on exchange from Birmingham’s Ace Music and Dance Company. Iona has a BA in Dance and Professional Practice from the University of Wolverhampton. She comes to Flatfoot as part of an on-going collaboration between the two companies and has spent the month of February 2016, working, teaching and dancing alongside Flatfoot and all their various KZN based arts development programmes.

Tickets at R50, can be purchased up to one hour before the show. The KZNSA coffee bar will be open.