What: 📅 Phakamisa Dance Commission 2025: Asanda Ruda (PG) - No late entry
When:
Where: 🕳 Barney Simon, Market Theatre
How much:
🎟️ R220.00Webtickets
This is a National Arts Festival, The Market Theatre and JOMBA! Dance Festival
(Centre for Creative Arts) co-production, with contributing funding from
Standard Bank South Africa. It is choreographed by Asanda Ruda, 2025 Standard
Bank Young Artist for Dance and recipient of the 2025 CCA JOMBA! and The
Market Theatre Phakamisa Dance Commission. Asanda Ruda, part of a double bill,
will run for an additional week at the Market Theatre Foundation.
KEMET – Black Lands: A solo work that traverses generational alienation,
political defiance, and personal emancipation. Rooted in Afro-contemporary
expression, it navigates the intersections of space, politics, and culture,
transforming the body into a vessel of ancestral memory and self-liberation.
Ruda’s movement affirms presence in a world that often marginalises
difference.
Alkamal Walkamal Almutlaq or Completeness and Absolute Wholeness (ancient
Arabic), explores the eternal bond between spirit and soul. It delves into how
these elements interconnect to heal and revive. Ethereal Afro-contemporary
movement and symbolic rituals invite audiences to contemplate love, health,
and balance.