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An Alternative take on Dance

Xolani Mthombeni — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 06:08:08 +0000

Dance is a medium of communication that has the ability to lend itself and adapt in accordance to change over the years. It is a colossus of vocabularies, energies, thoughts and emotions that can only be elucidated by movements. As an expression, it does not conform but rather evolves as a mother of synergies and [...]

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Consecration meets ferocity

Xolani Mthombeni — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:02:13 +0000

As a people we seek and for near-perfection in faraway places. While on the quest, we forget that this place is right in our midst and within oneself. The 2015 Standard Bank Young Artist for Dance, Luyanda Sidiya, has arrived, and the award could not have come at a better time. All this was evident [...]

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The Afrikan Origins Of The Capoeira

Khaya Sibeko — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:47:05 +0000

By Bakari R. Akil II Global Black News http://www.cwo.com Born out of an ever present need to protect themselves in a hostile environment, Africans enslaved in Brazil practiced a martial art now called Capoeira. Its methods were sneaky, the results often brutal and when needed, deadly. Capoeira was and is composed of cat like movements [...]

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