Performing Arts

Teaching beauty to emerging filmmakers
A sense of beauty can be taught but learning to make beautiful films requires complex skill development.

Blazing Baroque
Solid, technically proficient and expressive playing.

Swansongs: Cameos
The choice of material was varied, challenging and innovative.

How to start a new festival
Old festivals close but newcomers draw crowds. In a saturated market, how does a new festival get a foothold?

‘A wiseman’s art’: Twelfth Night and cross-mobility casting
Veteran actor Keith Robinson returns to the stage after a ten year recovery from a severely disabling variant of Guillain-Barre…

Proving the real value of the arts
The arts needs to stop trying to justify itself in economic terms and embrace the real public value it delivers.

What’s wrong with excellence in the arts
Excellence sounds like a motherhood concept but it is actually a code word for a narrow conservative agenda.

OUR Land People Stories
Prevailing motifs of kinship and family are woven throughout Bangarra’s three latest works in a fitting dedication to David Page.

Lest We Forget
A reflection of how humanity can rebuild itself when at times there is no hope.

Soweto Gospel Choir
Glorious entertainment which honours international struggles for justice.