With a new home and direction, Dance Umbrella Africa seems to have a bright future.
After existing in South Africa for 30 years, the Dance Umbrella festival celebrated its last run in March last year because of funding woes.
“I heard the news of its closing down from social media,” said Nyamza, an award-winning performer, choreographer and the newly appointed deputy artistic director for the South African State Theatre .Yes, I’d always heard for many years that the festival was struggling financially, but it still continued. At times, for the love of the art, I would participate for a lesser fee because [former artistic director Georgina] Thomson said there was no funding.
“We agreed that, even with our small budgets, it is important to retain a platform for dance, given that we needed to develop it at Sast,” Sekhabi explained. The festival’s new last name came about from Sekhabi and Nyamza wanting pan-African choreographers and performers to identify the State Theatre as a home base. “We want artists from the continent to have a home … and artists from all parts of the world to come and share with us their stories through dance; but importantly, [to] understand our stories from the continent,” Sekhabi said.
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