SOUTH Africa’s benchmark dance festival, the JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience, presented by the Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, celebrates its 22nd year with its first-ever digital edition, which will go online and be available free to a global audience from 25 August to 6 September.
“It is clear that we will not be able to deliver a festival in the same manner as previous years,” explained artistic director Dr Lliane Loots. “Covid-19 has shifted the arts world very significantly and in this fragile environment, dance – still defined as a full-contact ‘sport’ – remains separated from rehearsal spaces, from theatre venues, and various sites. We believe we can still offer dance-makers, dance-lovers, and audiences space to engage serious, beautiful, and important new dance making via a re-visioned JOMBA! 2020.”
This year’s JOMBA! is a carefully curated explosion of dance and conversions about dance-making, offering both a look back at some iconic dance works and dance makers, but it also significantly looks forward to exploring what dance can be in a digital space and a digital time. 2020 JOMBA! offers seven vibrant platforms for audiences to engage.
Access digital JOMBA! 2020 off the website, jomba.ukzn.ac.za.
All platforms for 2020 are free of charge and a full programme is available via the website. For updates on the programme visit Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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