Ramanenjana - a Jomba Contemporary Dance Festival and Rerouting Arts performance
Sat Sep 2, 19:00 - Sat Sep 2, 21:00
St Anne's College Theatre
ABOUT
Ramanenjana is a docufiction performance about a dance that made history. In Malagasy, Ramanenjana means something that makes you rigid but also something that makes you strong. Amidst diseases, social unrest, and healing rituals, the show critically discusses several versions of the same mass dance event. Following several years of research, Ramanenjana examines dance's societal role and how colonialism may have spread misconceptions about an extraordinary movement. Collaborating with ethnomusicologist and musician Olombelo Ricky, choreographers Simona Deaconescu and Gaby Saranouffi, along with three performers, playfully explore the Ramanenjana phenomenon using historical texts, dynamic hand gestures, and ecstatic movement.
This is the second year that Durban's Jomba Contemporary Dance Experience has partnered with Rerouting Arts from the Midlands to bring local audiences a taste of their international programme of contemporary dance peroformance. Don't miss this one night only performance!