Gregory Vuyani Maqoma, South Africa’s leading choreographer, gives birth to his new showcase teaser feature,
Four Seasons.
This well renowned globe-trotting phenomenon continues to define the moral degeneration of the human race and the detrimental affect it has on the world dynamic and mother earth in particular. Maqoma said, “
Four Seasons is a dance performance depicting destruction and deterioration of the human mind towards ourselves; towards life; towards each other; and towards the earth, it further embraces the beauty this planet provides. It is about giving hope to generations to come.”
A simple piece, yet portraying a hard hitting message identifying with the world from where it has come from to where it is going to; how the world is at the mercy of human hands.
Four Seasons is about a dying world — as we watch how Maqoma takes his audience from his winter season of loss and despair meandering through to summer as hope for new beginnings starts to shed light and prosperity for the human race to start living again.
Symbolic to this obvious cyclical seasonal movement, Maqoma relates this to our own experiences as we each have a period of seasonal change within ourselves, thus each season describes not only the world and the human effect on the world but the state of the human psyche.
Four Seasons premieres on 22 April at the Dance Factory, Newtown, at 20:00 until 24 April. Tickets can be purchased at Computicket countrywide.
Four Seasons is funded by the National Arts Council and features Vuyani Dance Theatre Company Trainees supported by the Arts & Culture Trust with funding from Vodacom.
This show is definitely not-to-be-missed as it affords itself to a larger dance show in the future. For more information, contact Chantal Grotto at
chantal@divine-intervention.co.za or call 082 372 3039.