Theatre-Rites 'The Global Playground' "explores the magic of our first encounters, how we play together..." and opens the dance programme at this years Manchester International Festival. Time for a quick word with choreographer Gregory Maqoma...
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★★★★✰ The dance style is a fusion of many elements of South African dance, other African and African diaspora influences, and modern and postmodern dance. It can be both liquid and percussive and has a complexity that is hard to take apart.
★★★✰✰ Gregory Maqoma’s theatrical storytelling, a potent mix of a capella, dance styles and scenography, projects a strong universal theme - grief.
★★★★✰ This show was a blast of South African pantsula, a township dance movement that has drawn influences from everything from tribal dances to hip hop...
Exit / Exist is Gregory Maqoma’s reflections on the story of his ancestor, Chief Maqoma, who faced up to the British in South Africa in the 19th century...