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Light Bytes - Collaborations: Dance and Design

Working in theatre is a truly collaborative process, and one such collaboration has taken Europe, London and South Africa by storm. Cion: Requiem for Ravel’s Boléro is the latest production by the Vuyani Dance Theatre, a Johannesburg-based dance company founded by internationally acclaimed choreographer Greg Maqoma. This new production featured the collaboration of set and lighting design Oliver Hauser whose work on this show is sublime. Please join us for our next Light Bytes session on Thursday 3rd March at 16:30 (GMT) where we will be talking to the powerhouse creative team of Greg and Oliver about their collaboration and working process in bringing Cion to the stage. We will be chatting about the life of this incredible show, from the early stages of conception through all its incarnations and design changes – talking about instrument choice, color, programming, conception and collaboration. Our Panelists: Greg Maqoma Gregory Vuyani Maqoma became interested in dance in the late 1980s as a means to escape the growing political tensions growing in Soweto, South Africa, where he was born. He started his formal dance training in 1990 at Moving into Dance, where he, later, became the Associate Artistic Director in 2002. He founded Vuyani Dance Theatre (VDT) in 1999 while undertaking a scholarship at the Performing Arts Research and Training School (PARTS) in Belgium, under the direction of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. Maqoma has established himself as an internationally renowned dancer, choreographer, teacher, and director. In 2002, Maqoma received the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for dance and was a finalist in the Daimler Chrysler Choreography Award. He was a finalist in the Rolex Mentorship Programme in 2003. Several works in his repertoire have won him accolades and international acclaim, including the Tunkie Award for Leadership in Dance (2012), and a “Bessie”, New York City’s premier dance award for Exit/Exist for original music composition (2014). He served as a nominator in the 2016-2017 Rolex Arts Initiative as well as curating the 2017 Main Dance Programme for the National Arts Festival. The French government honoured Maqoma with the Chevalier de L’Ordre des Artes et des Lettres (Knight of the Arts & Literature) Award in 2017. The following year, 2018, Maqoma collaborated with William Kentridge as a choreographer and performer in “The Head and the Load,” an opera which premiered at the Tate Modern Gallery in London, and is still touring Europe, and the United States. Maqoma collaborated with Idris Elba and Kwame Kwei-Armah in the production, “Tree,” produced by Manchester International Festival and the Young Vic (2018). Last year, 2020, Maqoma was honoured to deliver the prestigious International Dance Day message under the auspices of the International Theatre Institute and UNESCO. Recently he has created dance works with Ballet De Lyon, “The Valley of Human Sounds” and Ballet Black. He will be collaborating with Shadrack Bokaba in a new Jazz Opera, “Third World Express” which will be premiere at the Mandela at Joburg Theatre in September 2022. Oliver Hauser Oliver’s passion for lighting, his creativity, integrity, and energetic work ethic has become well known in the South African live events industry. After achieving a diploma in Entertainment Technology in 2009, Hauser has worked on over 250 productions across a wide range of genres: Television, drama, comedy, opera, musicals, avant-garde dance, contemporary music & conceptual performance. He has designed, coordinated and managed lighting for productions at prestigious venues in Barcelona, Paris, Zurich, Berlin, Beijing, Lagos, New York and in other cities internationally. Some of his design credits include: Loyiso Gola’s “Unlearning” for Netflix, African Pulse(Ndlovu Youth Choir), Gregory Maqoma’s “Cion” (Touring LD, Set design and technical manager), The South African Music Awards 2019 & 2018, Avenue Q South Africa, Rock of Ages South Africa, Jonathan Roxmouth’s The Musicals in Concert (2017 & 2018), High School Musical (Associate designer), The Mystery of Irma Vep, Eve Ensler’s Emotional Creature, Molière’s Tartuffe, The Crucible, Reza De Vet’s African Gothic, African Footprint (Head of lighting), Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, Athol Fugard’s Boesman & Lena, The Coloured Museum, Percy Mtwa’s Bopha!, Beautiful Creatures, One More Night (A Phil Collins Tribute), Marat Sade For more information visit us at https://www.etcconnect.com or... join a conversation at https://community.etcconnect.com To contact us for sales or support visit: https://www.etcconnect.com/contactetc/ Patents and Trademarks: https://www.etcconnect.com/IP