A festival of dance performances, music, land-art, visual art and craft that takes place across Emakhazeni.
The third annual My Body My Space Rural Arts and Culture Festival, co-ordinated by The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative (FATC), and funded by The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) and the National Arts Council of South Africa (NAC), will take place from 11 to 19 February in the towns of Belfast/Siyathuthuka, Dullstroom/Sakhelwe, Machadodorp/Emthonjeni and Waterval-Boven/Emgwenya.
The festival seeks to rupture historically charged social and political spaces through live performance happenings and is made up of three distinct programmes. The Arteries Programme, that consists of a series of flash mobs, dance installations and arts activations of public spaces in each of the four towns of Emakhazeni, takes place on the 11th and 12th February. This is followed by a workshop programme for children and youth in Emakhazeni from 13 to 16 February. Workshops will be presented by visiting artists and arts practitioners and The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative. The Central Nervous System Programme, the final programme of the festival, from the 17 to 19 February, is the curated main programme of the festival which takes place across diverse rural sites and well known Emakhazeni landmarks. Some of South Africa’s leading contemporary dance companies, such as FATC, Vuyani Dance Theatre, Moving into Dance Mophatong and Cape Town’s integrated dance company, Unmute Dance Company share this platform alongside numerous established and emerging South African dance voices as well as local artists and community arts groups. The Central Nervous System programme also features two works comprised of South African and International collaborations. The first, In the Heart of the Country, choreographed by FATC’s Fana Tshabalala, is a co-production between The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative and Constanza Macras/Dorkypark (Berlin). The second, Corps, is a collaboration between Gaby Saranouffi (Madagascar), Moeketsi Koena (South Africa) and Denis Rion (France).
