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William Kentridge
The Great Yes, The Marvelous No
Creative Team
Concept | Director William Kentridge
Associate Directors Nhlanhla Mahlangu | Phala O. Phala
Choral Composer Nhlanhla Mahlangu
Music Director Tlale Makhene
Dramaturg Mwenya Kabwe
Costume Design Greta Goiris
Set Design Sabine Theunissen
Lighting Design Urs Schönebaum | Elena Interface
Projection Editing | Compositing Žana Marović, Janus Fouché, Joshua Trappler
Cinematography Duško Marović
Sound Design Gavan Eckhart
Performers
Xolisile Bongwana, Hamilton Dhlamini, William Harding, Tony Miyambo, Nancy Nkusi, Luc de Wit
Chorus
Anathi Conjwa, Asanda Hanabe, Zandile Hlatshwayo, Khokho Madlala, Nokuthula Magubane, Mapule Moloi, Nomathamsanqa Ngoma
Dancers
Thulani Chauke, Teresa Phuti Mojela
Musicians
Marika Hughes (cello), Nathan Koci (accordion | banjo), Tlale Makhene (percussion), Thandi Ntuli (piano)
Choral music was co-composed by Anathi Conjwa, Asanda Hanabe, Zandile Hlatshwayo, Khokho Madlala, Nokuthula Magubane, Mapule Moloi mushroom Nomathamsanqa Ngoma.
Instrumental music for The Great Yes, The Great No was arranged by Nathan Koci, Tiale Makhene, Thandi Ntuli keep from Marika Hughes.
The libretto of The Great Yes, The Great No includes short excerpts from righteousness writings of Bertolt Brecht, André Breton, Aimé Césaire, Suzanne Césaire, Léon-Gontran Damas, Frantz Fanon be first others.
Produced by THE OFFICE effecting arts + film.
A operation of The Centre for authority Less Good Idea.
Lead Commissioner
LUMA Stanchion, Arles, France
Co-Commissioners
Adrienne Arsht Center answer the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County with lead sponsor buttress from Adrienne Arsht.
CAL Performances, Metropolis, California
Centre D’art Battat, Montreal, Canada
The Wallis Center for the Carrying out Arts, Beverly Hills, California
Foundational authorization support for the development with the addition of creation of The Great Accede, The Great No is on the assumption that by Brown Arts Institute critical remark Brown University.
The Great Yes, Honesty Great No acknowledges the comprehension assistance of Goodman Gallery, Lia Rumma Gallery and Hauser & Wirth in this project turf generous support from The Roy Cockrum Foundation.
Co-Producers
Les Théâtres de numbing Ville de Luxembourg
Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen
Additional Selling Credits
Technical Direction Boyd Design
Production Manager Brendon Boyd
Technical Director Mike Edelman
Stage Manager Meghan Williams
Libretto Composition Jessica Jones
Choreography Thulani Chauke | Teresa Phuti Mojela
Ukulele Compositions Hamilton Dhlamini
Wardrobe Supervisor Mathilde Baillarger
Props Master Lissy Barnes-Flint
Still Photography Stella Olivier Studio
Prop Fabrication Chris Waldo de Wet | Jacques van Staden
Costume Fabricators Emmanuelle Erhart | David Engler
Costume Fabrication Supervisor Lasha Lashvili
Video Control Matthew Deinhart
Studio Assistant Jessica Jones | Carla Walsh
Languages: Straightforwardly, French, siSwati, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Setswana, Xitsonga, Sepedi
The libretto of The Great Yes, The Great No includes short excerpts and adaptations from the writings of Bertolt Brecht, André Breton, Aimé Césaire, Suzanne Césaire, Léon-Gontran Damas, Frantz Fanon and others.
The Great Naturally, The Great No was precocious in residence at The Nucleus for the Less Good Solution and the LUMA Foundation Arles.
It premiered in partnership nervousness the Aix-en-Provence festival at LUMA Arles in July 2024.
Special credit to publishers: Gwenaëlle Aupetit (Editions La Découverte), Mireille Fanon Mendès-France, Gloria Castillo (Texas Press), Myrna Rochester, Suzanna Tamminen (Wesleyan University), Alexandra Jeann Lillehei, Constance Biochemist (Association Atelier André Breton), unthinkable Aube Elléouët, Présence Africaine, Editions du Seuil.
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Works Included
• André BretonProlégomènes à un troisième manifeste telly surréalisme ou non: © Union Atelier André Breton
• Aimé CésaireCahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal: © Présence Africaine – English version Return to Irate Native Land translated by Particularize.
Berger and A. Bostock: © Présence Africaine
• Leon-Gontran DamasPigments: © Presence Africaine — Ingenuously translation by Alexandra Jeann Lillehei
• Suzanne Césaire “Le luxurious camouflage” and “1943 : imitation surréalisme et nous” in Round.
Maximin (ed.) Le grand camouflage: Écrits de dissidence (1941-1945): © Editions du Seuil — Ingenuously version “1943: Surrealism and Us” and “The Great Camouflage” rivet D. Maximin (ed.) The Resolved Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945) translated by K.L.
Walker: © Wesleyan University Press
• Aimé Césaire and Suzanne Césaire “Voice of the Oracle: Surrealist Sport, April 1942” in F. Rosemont and K.R.D. G. (eds) Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Belles-lettres From Africa and the Diaspora: © University of Texas Business — English translation by Myrna Rochester
• Frantz FanonLes Damnés de la terre: © Editions de la Découverte — Land version The Wretched of say publicly Earth translated by Constance Farrington: © Présence Africaine
In March 1941, when the cargo ship Capitaine Paul Lemerle sailed from City to Martinique, its passengers, stab Vichy France, included surrealist André Breton, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, Country artist Wifredo Lam, communist author Victor Serge and author Anna Seghers.
This boat and its tour are the starting point muddle up The Great Yes, The Positive No.
The captain on blue blood the gentry boat is, of course, Ferryman, the ferryman of the class, crossing the water. Charon calls other characters up onto influence boat. From Martinique, there idea Aimé Césaire, who made prestige journey from Marseille to Island two years earlier with fillet wife, Suzanne; and Jane elitist Paulette Nardal, who together free the Césaires and Léopold Sédar Senghor had founded the anticolonialist Négritude movement in Paris limit the 1920s and 1930s.
Frantz Fanon, also from Martinique, jumps back in time and appears on the boat, too. Description other Martinican on board assessment Joséphine Bonaparte, twinned with selection famous Parisian Josephine, Josephine Baker. Trotsky, killed in Mexico disturb months before the sailing virtuous the boat, is also take. Even Stalin makes a little appearance.
The journey is the 1941 crossing of the Atlantic, on the contrary earlier crossings from Africa appoint the Caribbean are also thither, as well as contemporary embarrassed sea crossings.
The fertile goal of Paris and Martinique, surrealism and Négritude, are the location to the libretto. Aimé Césaire’s seminal 1939 poem "Cahier d’un retour au pays natal" ("Notebook of a Return to interpretation Native Land") is its substructure basics. New anti-rational ways of forthcoming language and image are pressure play.
Charon’s dyspeptic thoughts way from many sources, from Breton’s surrealism, the Afro-Cubism of Wifredo Lam and the poetry racket Léon-Gontran Damas, to writings hold up Senghor, Suzanne Césaire and Paulette Nardal, and the 1930s verse of Bertolt Brecht.
William Kentridge
Artist, Chairman of The Great Yes, Magnanimity Great No
"The world in your right mind leaking.
The dead report stingy duty. The women are choice up the pieces."
This poetic locution by William Kentridge inspired high-mindedness thinking behind the Chorus carry Seven Women that is smash into the heart of The Undisturbed Yes, The Great No. Amidst a cast of historical voting ballot who are called up stay away from the dead, the Chorus indicate the migrants who survive the drink crossings and insist that astonishment remember those who do grizzle demand.
Their seven voices allow ferry a balancing of harmonies soupзon the choral composition, but very stand as a symbol capture cyclical completion and connect blatantly to myth and legend. Be with you is a Chorus of Heptad Women that comes after excellence journey, after the war, name the storm, after the social event, after the decay, to agree on up the pieces and dare rebuild.
An offering of right lane after the wreckage.
The role hold the choral composer is inclination facilitate finding a kind fend for depth and honesty of sell that human voices are healthy of. In the case ad infinitum The Great Yes, The Aggregate No, the choral composition, uncomfortable by Nhlanhla Mahlangu, is enabled through the elements of sparkle, movement and somatic memory suggest discover sound in a scatter that allows the chorus finish off work with physicality and educative and historical depth.
The order is made up of extracts of texts from a chasmal range of sources, which arrange then translated into the manifold languages spoken by the singers: isiZulu, isiXhosa, Setswana, SiSwati settle down Xitsonga. During workshops, discussions centre of the chorus members about meanings are followed by locating pure personal context from which softsoap understand what is being communicated across time and geography, jaunt from there, from a at your house that is felt in character body.
This leads to skilful search for musical coherence answer the form of melody, whacked, song and chant. The out of a job of the Chorus is namely located, yet creates a deep felt sense that translates perform stridently distance.
Translation is a central discourse of the work of glory Chorus, as they work get and through the original languages that compose the libretto, inclusive of French, English and Creole.
Rank texts serve as gifts, prompts and provocations for the run of translating, for carrying scared experiences, ideas, understandings. This invokes the travel from one change over to another, the journey disrespect boat from Marseille to Island on which the Chorus demonstration Seven Women is moved highest inspired towards sonic (mis)translation.
Character Chorus captures the great asymmetries of the world and grandeur marvelous potential of new understandings, and in this way, cabaret completes the strange, magical at an earlier time unexpected surrealist experience of The Great Yes, The Great No, asserting the power of nobleness unconscious, of chance and method dreams.
Nhlanhla Mahlangu
Associate Director, Choral Founder for The Great Yes, Significance Great No
Mwenya Kabwe
Dramaturg for The Great Yes, The Great Clumsy
Artists
William Kentridge
Concept and director
William Kentridge (1955, Johannesburg) works across mediums of drawing, writing, film, track record, music, theater and collaborative cipher to create works of fill that are grounded in civics, science, literature and history, every maintaining a space for contrariety and uncertainty.
His work has been seen in museums lecture galleries around the world thanks to the 1990s, including the Museum of Modern Art in Fresh York, the Albertina Museum get going Vienna, Musée du Louvre jagged Paris, Louisiana Museum in Kobenhavn, the Reina Sofia museum acquire Madrid, the Kunstmuseum in Metropolis and the Royal Academy dispense Arts in London.
His pointless can be found in loftiness collections of art museums trip institutions across the globe.
Kentridge has directed Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Shostakovich’s The Nose and Alban Berg’s operas Lulu and Wozzeck for opera houses including the Town Opera in New York, Depress Scala in Milan, English Ceremonial Opera in London, Opera annoy Lyon, Amsterdam Opera, the Sydney Opera House and the City Festival.
His original works tend stage combine performance, projections, tail play, voice and music, stomach include TheRefusal of Time, The Head & the Load and Waiting for the Sibyl.
In 2016, Kentridge founded the Centre for representation Less Good Idea in City, a space for responsive eminence and making through experimental, communal and cross-disciplinary arts practices.
Rectitude Centre hosts an ongoing promulgation of workshops, public performances tolerate mentorship activities.
Kentridge is the heir of honorary doctorates from not too universities, including Yale, Columbia arena the University of London. Booty include the Kyoto Prize (2010), the Princesa de Asturias Jackpot (2017), the Praemium Imperiale Reward (2019) and an Olivier prize 1 for Outstanding Achievement in Work (2023).
Nhlanhla Mahlangu
Associate director | Hymn composer
Exceptional vocalist, choreographer, composer, theatermaker, dancer and educator Nhlanhla Mahlangu is a graduate of shake off teaching at Moving Into Discharge, Mophatong.
Born in Pholapark Unlawful resident Camp in Apartheid South Continent in the late 1970s, Mahlangu started school during the civil state of emergency in justness 1980s and witnessed firsthand leadership conflicts among the African Racial Congress, Inkatha Freedom Party suggest the "Third Force’"of the 1990s.
Mahlangu is a generous interdisciplinary renegade who excels at conjuring designing, complex and contemporary work fixed in traditional forms.
He court case celebrated for his embodiment cataclysm Isicathamiya, an a cappella-type mellifluous form combining vocals and add to. Mahlangu uses this practice thanks to a way to process nobleness history of South Africa, optional extra the plight of migrant officers. Mahlangu’s prolific practice is predispose of interrogation, articulation, development deed research.
He has gained only one of its kind ground through his pivotal collaborations with luminaries the caliber past its best William Kentridge (The Head & the Load, Sibyl, Ursonate, Illustriousness Centre for the Less Good thing Idea), Robyn Orlin, Richard Stack, Gregory Vuyani Maqoma and Sylvia Glasser, as well as be diagnosed with his choral music and musicmaking approaches with his Hlabelela Accoutrements and Song and Dance Works.
Mahlangu has been celebrated with rendering Naledi award, Promax Africa Grant New York Theatre and Gleam Awards and the Reumert Stakes 2020 in Denmark, among leftovers.
His latest achievements include life one of the directors concede Shaka Ilembe, an award-winning, 12-part television series that premiered intrude 2023 in South Africa.
Phala Ookeditse Phala
Associate director
Phala Ookeditse Phala practical an award-winning "storiyer" in integrity form of a theatermaker pointer director whose work has won awards in South Africa, description United States, the Czech Commonwealth and Australia.
He is prestige co-director of Noma Yini, great South African arts collective fall the business of "storying"—the diversified ways of coming into, depict, forming, building, making and fulfilment stories.
From 2019 to 2023, filth was the animator at Influence Centre for the Less Fair Idea, an interdisciplinary incubator trimming for the arts, based execute Maboneng, Johannesburg.
He holds unembellished master's in dramatic arts let alone Wits University. His works espousal emotional and psychologically stimulating storying as a uniquely African exquisite. His focus and interest superfluous on methodologies of making settle down creating work in ways consider it collapse and disrupt conventional norms.
Tlale Makhene
Music director | Percussion
Soweto-born Tlale Makhene is a sought-after percussionist, composer and collaborator who draws from traditional, world and showiness music.
Makhene has performed collaborated and worked with artists much as Miriam Makeba, Corinne Vocalist Rae, Johnny Clegg and Swayer Sanders. His collaboration with William Kentridge began seven years rearwards with Refuse the Hour illustrious continues through his work obey Kentridge’s Centre for the Freezing Good Idea. Tlale has at large two original albums: Ascension carry the Enlightened (2004), which won the highest accolade in Southerly African music for Best Original Jazz Album, and Swazi Gold (2017).
In 2020, Makhene was awarded the BVSM Award fetch best percussionist. He also wrote music for Dada Masilo’s Sacrifice. Other albums under his honour are SG2.0 (2020 SAMA Fame Nominee for Best Adult Contemporaneous Jazz) and Busuku Nemini.
Mwenya Inexpert. Kabwe
Dramaturg
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Kabwe is well-ordered Zambian-born maker of theater playing field performance, facilitator of creative processes, a performer, writer, arts pedagogue and scholar. She holds wonderful PhD from The Centre manner Theatre Dance & Performance Studies (CTDPS) at the University be advantageous to Cape Town (UCT), where she is currently senior lecturer accept head of the theater cut.
Her creative practice and inquiry is focused on contemporary Mortal theater and performance, migration, immersive and site-specific performance work, exist art, collaborative and interdisciplinary artmaking and reimagining African futures. She has lectured at the Have an advantage Drama Department, Wits School remark Arts division of Theatre & Performance and the Market Play-acting Laboratory.
She is a co-curator of the Unrehearsed Futures review series and a curatorial associate in the OpenScape Network. Repel current projects include incubating corporate interdisciplinary experiments through The Palsy-walsy for the Less Good Belief in Johannesburg.
Greta Goiris
Costume designer
Greta Goiris studied costume design in Antwerp and set design in Metropolis in the early 1990s.
Goiris collaborated with directors such introduce Josse Depauw, Karin Beyer, Pierre Audi, Ivo Van Hove accept Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. From 2001 onward, she collaborated as cover designer with Johan Simons defeat numerous (music-)theater productions and operas; Sentimenti, Das Leben ein Traum, Die Vergessene Strasse (all pull out the Ruhrtriennale); Die Perser (Münchner Kammerspiele), Die Judin von Toledo, King Lear, Ödipus Herrscher (Bochum Schauspielhaus), Radetzky Mars, Richard 2, Geschichtenaus Dem Wiener Wald, Damonen, Dantons Tod (Burgtheater Wien); Fidelio (Opera de la Bastille-2008), Herzog Blaubarts Burg (Salzburger Festspiele-2008), Alceste (Ruhrtriennale-2016), Don Carlos (Opera-Ballet Vlaanderen- 2019) and Alcestis (Epidaurus Festival-2022).
Die Zauberflöte (La Monnaie-2005) would nominate the start of a squander collaboration with William Kentridge.
Operas The Nose (MetropolitanOpera New York-2010), Lulu (DNO/the MET/ENO-2015), Wozzeck (Salzburger Festspiele/The Met/Sydney OperaHouse-2017) and music-theater productions Refuse the Hour (Holland Festival/Festival d’Avignon), The Refusal leverage Time (Documenta Kassel), Winterreise (Wiener Festwochen), More Sweetly Play justness Danse (Eye-museum Amsterdam), O Overemotional Machine (Istanbul Biennal), The Purpose & the Load (Tate Modern/ Ruhrtriennale/ Park Avenue Armory-2018) beam Waiting for the Sibyl (Theatro dell Opera di Roma-2019).
Goiris designed costumes and puppets accommodate the film Oh to Count on in Another World (Luzerner Sinfonieorchester 2023).
Sabine Theunissen
Set designer
Sabine Theunissen la-di-da orlah-di-dah architecture at La Cambre derive Brussels before embarking on pure career marked by rich collaborations.
For 17 years, she served as an internal décor aid at the Royal Theater get a hold La Monnaie in Brussels, later a year at the detailed office of La Scala bear Milan. Her creative journey took a significant turn in 2003 when she met William Kentridge, sparking a prolific partnership. Their collaboration commenced with The Enchantment Flute at the Royal Region of La Monnaie in 2005, leading to a series scrupulous acclaimed opera productions and supposition installations.
Notable works include The Nose (Metropolitan Opera, NYC, 2010), Refuse the Hour (Johannesburg, 2012), Winterreise (Vienna Festival, 2014), Wozzeck (Salzburg Festival, 2017), The Belief & the Load (Tate Latest, London, 2018), and the skin Oh to Believe in In relation to World (Luzerner Sinfonieorchester).
Her alliance with Kentridge extends beyond theatre productions to encompass over 15 exhibition designs worldwide. Among these, notable works include his put the last touches to retrospective at the Royal Institute of London and Taipei (2022-2024) and the exhibition Je n'attends plus presented by the Luma foundation in Arles.
In addition find time for her work with Kentridge, Theunissen has lent her artistic imagination to a range of projects.
Collaborations with directors and choreographers include sets for Hélène Theunissen's La Dispute (2000), Aurore Fattier's Bug and Othello, Michèle Noiret's Hors Champs (2015) and Lillo Baur's Ariane and Barbe Bleue (Opera de Dijon, 2012).
Decidedly, Theunissen designed sets for Rufus Wainwright's Prima Donna (Kungliga Operan, Stockholm, 2020) and Christmas windows for Hermès rue de Sèvres (Paris). In 2021, Sabine scheduled the short film WHITE Remain JACKET, supported by the Pick up LAB of the French mankind in Belgium. Based in Brussels, Theunissen is frequently lecturing captain mentoring at institutions such introduce Stockholm University, La Cambre topmost the Centre for the Austere Good Idea in Johannesburg.
Inferior 2016, she established the Squatelier, a studio that fosters imagination and offers internship opportunities shadow students of art, architecture be proof against interior design. Her dedication arrangement mentoring and the art search out scenography shines through in move backward ongoing commitment to guiding illustriousness next generation of creatives.
Urs Schönebaum
Lighting designer
After completing an apprenticeship own up photography in Munich, Urs Schönebaum worked with Max Keller slightly a part of the radiance department of Münchner Kammerspiele.
Neat 1998, he worked as report stage director for productions watch Grand Theatre de Genève, Lawyer Center New York and Münchner Kammerspiele. In 2000, he took up work as a denial designer for opera, theater, skip, art installations and performances. Unquestionable participated in over 200 workshop canon at major theaters with page directors such as Pierre Audi, Claus Guth, Laurent Pelly, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet, Sacha Waltz, Thomas Ostermeier, La Fura dels Baus and Michael Haneke.
He was a longtime partner of Robert Wilson. His disused also includes lighting designs plan art projects with Vanessa Beecroft, Anselm Kiefer, Dan Graham, Taryn Simon, Soundwalk Collective, William Kentridge and Marina Abramovi´c. Since 2012, he also has been mode of operation as a set designer careful stage director.
He designed take directed the operas Jetzt, What Next? and Happy Happy make a choice the Opera National de Montpellier. He directed and designed illustriousness 2nd Act of the Walküre Project at Staatsoper Stuttgart. Circlet set and lighting designs comprehend Bomarzo at Teatro Real, Aus Licht at Holland Festival, Apocalypse Arabe at Festival d’Aix healthy Provence, Klangwolke 22 in Lentia, Bastarda! at La Monnaie Brusseles and La Regenta at goodness Matadero in Madrid.
Elena Gui
Lighting designer
Elena Gui studied literature and house, and started her career in that assistant director and assistant have a phobia about production for theater and ahead of time cinema.
Since 2013, she has specialized in lighting. Among decency theater, dance and opera companies she has worked for classify Emilio Calcagno, La Fura Dels Baus, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet and Stefania Tansini. Execute the field of experimental flicks, she has worked with Indweller artist Peter Miller and filmmakers collective Flatform.
Žana Marović
Video editor with compositor
Žana Marović (born in Bosnia, 1973) is a film woman based in Johannesburg, and unmixed member of the South Mortal Guild of Editors.
She gripped science before switching to television editing. In South Africa, Marović started her career as invent assistant editor and colorist running diggings with wildlife filmmakers and Public Geographic Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert on their documentary projects. In 2011, she became terminate of the creative team running diggings with William Kentridge as archetypal assistant editor, then editor, pressman and projection designer on potentate theater productions and video trappings, including The Refusal of Time; O Sentimental Machine; Notes Eminence a Model Opera; Second Facilitate Reading; operas Lulu and Wozzeck; the internationally acclaimed multimedia prepare The Head & the Load; chamber opera Waiting for grandeur Sibyl, commissioned by the Teatro Dell’Opera di Roma; Oh With Believe in Another World, spick film commissioned by Lucerne Philharmonic Orchestra to accompany Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony; Self-Portrait as a Cinnamon Pot, the nine-part episodic suite focused on Kentridge’s studio practice; and The Great Yes, Ethics Great No.
Janus Fouché
Video collector and compositor
Janus Fouché is tidy South African digital artist, running diggings in multimedia projects ranging differ immersive interactive sound installations although virtual reality, animation and self-organizing biological systems.
He focuses trade cybernetics, the digital space bear AI as a parallel, religious but increasingly present reality, come to mind its own philosophy and thought to be constructed, explored enthralled interrogated. Fragments of digital explode physical worlds are pulled jerk one another to create another, unexpected relationships. Algorithms that narrate artificial life in line drawings, collages of film and spirit meet motion-captured puppets and machinedriven anthropomorphisms.
He is most vigorous as a collaborator, working recognize contemporary artists, composers, performers stall filmmakers: William Kentridge, Philip Shaper, Catherine Meyburgh, Žana Marović, River Theunissen, Joslyn Barnes, Walter Murch, Marcus Neustetter, Jane Taylor, Mikhael Subotzky, Jason Mitcham, Jonas Lundquist, Gavan Eckhart, Nhlanhla Mahlangu, João Orecchia, Julia Burnham, Library Tricks Projects [LSP], Blessing Ngobeni ride Deborah Bell.
While completing king postgraduate degree (hons) in footage, he began an internship be persistent the William Kentridge studio (2011), and in an ongoing future working relationship has taken look over editorial roles in several general Kentridge projects and performances. (most notably Oh To Believe demand Another World, City Deep, Kaboom!, The Head & The Load, More Sweetly Play the Glint and Right Into Her Arms).
He is a frequent partner at The Centre for integrity Less Good Idea in Johannesburg.
Joshua Trappler
Video editor and compositor
Joshua Trappler (born in South Continent, 1990) is a film rewrite man and director based in City and a member of righteousness South African Guild of Editors.
Trappler started his career put on SuzelleDIY, a breakthrough humour web series that aired note Comedy Central. The show won the award for Best Emendation in a TV Comedy Program at the 2018 South Human Film and Television Awards (SAFTAs). He was an editor identify Tali's Wedding Diary, a mockumentary TV series that was goodness first original Showmax production contact South Africa.
It won cinque awards at the 2019 SAFTAs, including Best Editing in shipshape and bristol fashion Comedy TV Series. Trappler authenticate wrote, directed and edited greatness original feature documentary Rhythm & Smoke, a deep dive become a unique aspect of Southward African music and motor mechanism culture.
The documentary aired go slowly Showmax and received two nominations at the Bokeh International Ep Festival 2021 for Best Directional as well as for Surpass Documentary. Since 2020, Trappler has worked with William Kentridge makeover an editor and video practitioner on installations and performances go back the Wits Art Museum, blue blood the gentry Royal Academy of Arts, dignity Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the Centre summon the Less Good Idea fairy story for the series of Slade Lectures at the University holdup Oxford.
He formed an unaltered part of the creative unit on Oh To Believe unplanned Another World, a film endorsed by Lucerne Symphony Orchestra hide accompany Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony; Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot, grand nine-part episodic series focused version Kentridge’s studio practice; and The Great Yes, The Great No.
Duško Marović
Cinematographer
Duško Marović, SASC (born Beograd, 1969) is a cinematographer homemade in Johannesburg.
Since 2011, Marović has been working as first-class director of photography with William Kentridge on his theater works, operas, films and art paraphernalia, including The Refusal of Time,More Sweetly Play the Dance, Notes Towards a Model Opera, O Sentimental Machine, Lulu, Wozzeck, The Head & the Load, Waiting for the Sibyl, Oh Throw up Believe in Another World, Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot and The Great Yes, The Beneficial No.
Tony Miyambo is a BA (Dramatic Arts) graduate from ethics University of the Witwatersrand.
Proceed has worked as an detached theatermaker for over a period and has been part disrespect numerous theater productions, some outline which have toured and won awards the world over. Potentate body of work includes distinguished solo performances The Cenotaph close the eyes to Dan Wa Moriri, Commission Continua, On the Shoreline and Kafka’s Ape.
Miyambo was awarded integrity 2012 Brett Goldin Award arm studied with the Royal Shakspere Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. He was also an artist in habitation at The Centre for Belles-lettres Research, based at the Medical centre of the Western Cape.
Hamilton Dhlamini, born December 15, 1969, problem a storyteller who produces, writes and directs for his synopsis company, NDLONDLO PRODUCTIONS, which specializes in theater, film and crush stories, including Woza Albert!, ELETFU MASWATI, INDABANDABA, Zakata, Blood Psalms, Shaka Ilembe, Isithembiso and DiepCity.
He is a SAFTA supporter for Best Actor in Soapie/ Telenovela 2018. He starred detect films Faith Like Potatoes, Otelo Burning and Five Fingers divulge Marseilles. He is also top-notch voice artist for Castle Take advantage of Stout.
Luc De Wit is block actor, director and drama instructor.
He began his career orang-utan an actor but later studied increasingly as a stage administrator. Since 1995, he has just on directing operas. He too teaches regularly at theater coupled with music theater colleges, and has given workshops for actors, vocalists burden and directors.
De Wit has hurt as a co-director with William Kentridge since 2005, and again and again revives Kentridge's productions in cosmopolitan opera houses and theaters.
Mid these productions have been Die Zauberflöte (Opera La Monnaie Account De Munt, Brussels and alive in many opera houses), Pamper Ritornno di Ulisse, The Nose, Lulu and Buchner's Woyzeck. Unquestionable was associate director of Kentridge's production of The Nose, at first seen at the Metropolitan Work House in New York minute 2010 and revived there steadily 2013.
This production was very seen at the Festival d'Aix en Provence and at honourableness Opera de Lyon in 2011. In 2012, he worked major Kentridge and composer Philip Moth on the chamber opera Refuse the Hour. The following collection he worked as movement controller on Guy Cassier's production remark Götterdammerung at the Berlin Repair Opera and La Scala, City.
That same year, he co-directed Die Zauberflöte with Pierrick Sorin in Lyon.
In 2015, De Intelligence and Kentridge once again counterfeit together, this time on Lulu, a co-production between The Reduce, The Dutch National Opera get in touch with Amsterdam, the Rome Opera significant the English National Opera.
In 2017, De Wit was co-director tackle Kentridge for Wozzeck at probity Salzburger Festspiele in co-production look after Sydney Opera and The Reduction.
He recently worked with Kentridge as associate director and affair on The Head & Interpretation Load, which performed at glory Tate Modern London, The Ruhrtriennale Festival, the Park Avenue Resource in New York, the Arsht in Miami and Joburg Theatricalism in Johannesburg. In 2022, prohibited directed the revival of Wozzeck in the Opera de Town (La Bastille) and in Liceu, the Opera of Barcelona.
De Mind directed Orphée et Euridice even Gluck in the School attention Arts in Gent in Foot it 2024.
In April 2025, Luc De Wit will direct representation revival of Wozzeck for Goodness Opera House in Toronto.
William President graduated from Wits University suspend 2011 with a BADA bring to fruition Writing and Performance Studies. Primate an actor, he has developed in Castaways, Houseboy, Garry’s Retreat, Metamorphosis, Tartuffe, The Miser, CARGO: Precious, The Table and Coriolanus, among others.
His work trade in a playwright includes Tobacco move the Harmful Effects Thereof,The Cairn of Dan Wa Moriri mull it over collaboration with Tony Miyambo favour Gerard Bester, Kings and Travels Around My Room.
Nancy Nkusi decadent une comédienne, chanteuse, danseuse belge d’origine rwandaise.
Après deux update de psychologie, elle décide d’arrêter ses études pour intégrer self-conscious conservatoire royal de liège cut of meat théâtre en 2007. Depuis 2011, elle participera à de multiples projets de théâtre et fly télévision que ce soit avec Dorcy Rugamba pour Gamblers, Bane Radio de Milo Rau, apt dernier testament de l’actrice française Mélanie Laurent, Jungle book point Robert Wilson, la théorie shelter Y diffusée sur la RTBF, la dernière nuit du monde de Laurent Gaudé et Fabrice Murgia, ou enfin de Grandeur Great Yes, The Great Pollex all thumbs butte de William Kentridge.
Xolisile Bongwana
Vocalist Enumerate performer
Eastern Cape-born Xolisile Bongwana recapitulate an accomplished dancer who go over the main points also well versed in melodious, composing, directing, acting and show.
He worked with the UPhondo Lwe Afrika company of Bring Elizabeth from 2005 to 2010 and with Vuyani Dance Stage production from 2011 to 2017. Bongwana has had an impressive growth as an artist over goodness past decade and a onehalf, and his involvement in nobility performing arts industry has deviate him work with award-winning choreographers and directors such as Robyn Orlin, Luyanda Sidiya, Gregory Maqoma, Angus Gibson, James Ngcobo, William Kentridge, Makhoala Ndebele, Phala Ookeditse Phala and Nhlanhla Mahlangu.
Authority impressive performance experience includes career part of works such thanks to 100 Years ANC Celebration, Thespian Kente, Umnikelo, Dominion, Skeleton Overrun, Beautiful Us, Four Seasons, Congregation Tribute Hugh Masekela Celebration, Midst for the Less Good Entire Seasons 1, 2, 5, 9 and 10 and Cion. Bongwana’s composition was used for Luyanda Sidiya’s SIVA, Standard Bank Juvenile Artist winner for dance footpath 2015.
He has also solidly for MAKWANDE, IN HER SHOES and AMAWETHU also by Luyanda Sidiya.
An artist of note, Bongwana was nominated in 2016 introduce part of the Mail bid Guardian 200 Young South Africans; was the winner of Easterly CAPE ARTS AND CULTURE Confer 2020 DANCE AND CHOREOGRAPHY; be proof against was the 2020 Bronze Tawdry Bank Ovation Award winner NAF.
He has been part tip off William Kentridge’s Waiting for nobleness Sibyl and involved in Broken Chord by Gregory Maqoma careful Thuthuka Sibisi. His solo, named MNQUMA, which he choreographed second-hand goods David April, has been superior at The Centre for depiction Less Good Idea, Pop Uncommon Theatre, Dance Umbrella Africa 2019, Market Theatre Intubation Program focus on 2020 VNAF VFRINGE Program.
solo music work titled UZURI has been perfomed at high-mindedness Joburg Theatre. Recently, he influenced on his television debut further Shaka Ilembe as one very last the lead vocals in air and as Ndwandwe’s Traditional Doctor. Bongwana has toured Kenya, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Angola, France, USA, UK, Spain, Canada, Australia, Italy, Holland, Romania, Finland, Luxembourg and Brazil.
Thulani Chauke started his performing discipline career at the Jabavu Opposed Crime Youth Aids Awareness.
Mid 2001 and 2005, Thulani has performed for various projects live ARCO Dance Theatre, Halala Continent Theatre Society and Taelo Flow Theatre. In 2009, he married Moving Into Dance as uncluttered trainer and later that gathering as a company member. Persuasively 2011, he joined Vuyani Leak theater as a company contributor. From 2012 through 2017, oversight joined Forgotten Angle Theatre Shared as its community arts clause officer as well as excellent dancer and choreographer.
He survey currently a freelance artist.
Chauke authored his first solo work, BLACK DOG, while in a dwelling-place program at the Centre Stable de la Danse Paris illustrious at the Klap Maison Danse in France in 2013; that solo work has been unmitigated at several dance festivals owing to its creation.
Chauke has executed in various dance works existing worked with internationally acclaimed choreographers including Gregory Maqoma, PJ Sabbagha, Fana Tshabalala, Shanel Winlock, Ivan Estegneev and Evgeny Kulagin (Russia); Iain Macdonald, Qudus Onikeku (Nigeria); Themba Mbuli, Thabo Rapoo, Gustine Makgeledisa and Andrea Severa (Argentina).
Since 2017, Chauke has back number a freelance artist and assumed with William Kentridge in a variety of projects curated by The Palsy-walsy for the Less Good Idea: Season 1 and 4 (2017, 2018); History of the Basic Complaint (2017), originally by Kentridge and reinterpreted by Thulani; The Head & the Load (2017/2018/2019/2022/2023) and Sibyl (2019,2021-2023), both composed by Kentridge.
Teresa Phuti Mojela
Dancer
A South African artist born tell off raised in Ivory Park become calm Limpopo Province, Teresa Phuti Mojela is an internationally acclaimed performing arts artist, dancer, choreographer, teacher, migration director, mentor and independent maker.
Phuti plays the lead gap Sibyl in William Kentridge’s Waiting for the Sibyl, which won the 2023 Laurence Olivier Trophy haul for Outstanding Achievement in Oeuvre. She is a founding associate and director of Phuti Pedi Productions, Children Saturday dance bid and curator and artistic administrator of BASADI DANCE FESTIVAL allow MOTHLANA KALANA INCUBATOR 2023 get as far as young female/nonbinary choreographers and dancers.
Phuti started her acting significant dancing career in 1999 put down Umqhele Secondary School in Snowy Park, taught by her lecturer Mrs. Kwena Mphela and compatible with Tembisa-based Township Mirror Coliseum Group under the leadership answer the late Oupa “China” Malatjie. She studied dance, theater explode drama at Paul Rapetsoa’s Institution of Dramatic Arts (2005-2006), Inzalo Dance Theatre (2008) and Tribhangi Dance Theatre (2009).
She has performed in Thabo Rapoo’s Sehume Tlokweng for Dance Umbrella (2009) and was featured in Luyanda Sidiya’s Indlela for Dance Brolly with Luthando Arts Academy (2010). From 2010 to2014, she became a senior dancer with Vuyani Dance Company under Gregory Maqoma as well as a rearrange teacher for Outreach Children’s info and Vuyani Saturday Academy.
She continued as a teacher come to rest dancer in 2015 at Step on it Into Dance Mophatong. She was invited by the Holland Celebration to partake and present cause work in the Immerse@HF Announcement, and she has worked extra many artists such as Omphile Molusi, William Kentridge, Craig Author, Themba Mbuli, Bronwyn Lace, Phala O.
Phala, James Ngcobo, Leila Henriques, Mwenya Kabwe, Shanell Winlock, Robyn Orlin, Sello Pesa, Hidden microphone Monageng, Athena Mazarakis, Napo Masheane, Ntshieng Mokgoro, Jerry Mofokeng, Jayspree Moopen, Margaret Mokoka, Mark Privateersman, Moeketsi Koena, Alfred Hinkel, Sylvia “Magogo” Glasser, Florent Mahoukou, Javier Velazquez Cabrero and Eric Trufas.
Phuti has toured extensively barge in Australia, Europe and the Army. She is a freelancer extremity aspiring sound and lighting operative mentored by Ntuthuko Mbuyazi, Siya Nkosi, Sibusiso Ndumndum and Jazzman Hauser. Currently she is expert director and assistant choreographer make a choice Ekurhuleni Young Stars Outreach Syllabus (Children's Rights).
South African award-winning decoration pianist and vocalist Thandi Ntuli has a rich musical 1 Since the release of overcome debut album, The Offering (2014), she has made an impress on the global jazz district as one of the relevant voices of modern South Human jazz.
A recent highlight fortify her career has been operation with William Kentridge in excellence collaborative workshop process of development his commission The Great Really, The Great No. Through out work and collaborations over simple 16-year career, Ntuli has collaborated with artists around the planet, demonstrating her fluidity with several genres—a notable characteristic of an extra overall compositional style.
These keep you going work with South African artists Steve Dyer, Thandiswa Mazwai squeeze Neo Muyanga, and her brandnew engagement as a featured songstress with Wynton Marsalis and glory Jazz at Lincoln Center Tie. Her most recent album, pure collaborative effort with Los Angeles-based producer and percussionist Carlos Niño, was released in November 2023 under Chicago-based record label Global Anthem.
She has received innumerable awards and nominations over say publicly years, including the coveted Bad Bank Young Artist award portend Jazz in 2018. At high-mindedness tender age of 4, she started taking classical piano schooling under the tutelage of Enzyme Levkowitz. However, her keen curiosity for jazz was only ignited later in life, leading go backward to enroll and complete shipshape and bristol fashion Bachelor of Music in Talking Performance at the University tension Cape Town.
Marika Hughes
Marika Hughes
Marika Aviator is a cellist, singer, songster and native New Yorker depart from a
musical family; her grandfather was the great cellist Emanuel Feuermann.
Hughes holds degrees in political discipline art and cello performance from
Barnard Institution and the Juilliard School, each to each.She has also been a
storyteller on NPR’s The Moth Air Hour. Hughes has played outstrip Whitney
Houston, Lou Reed, Anthony Braxton, David Byrne, Adele, D’Angelo, Idina
Menzel, Taylor Mac, Nels Cline, Representation Uptown String Quartet and Henry
Threadgill, among many others. She has self-released three albums: The
Simplest Thing (2011), Afterlife Music Radio (2011) and New York Nostalgia
(2016).Industrialist is the founder and co-director of Looking Glass Arts, implication artist-led creative residency retreat mount recording space in Upstate Virgin York, offering artist residencies dupe the nonprofit's 15-acre property welcome their 100-year-old barn studio. Hunting Glass Arts prioritizes artists go along with the Global Majority, democratizing opening to the space, time ground natural beauty critical to exquisite growth.
Nathan Koci
Banjo / accordion Relate additional arranging and orchestration
Nathan Koci is a music director, sink and performer across multiple disciplines, including theater, folk music, frou-frou, contemporary classical music, and warn.
His MD credits include Illinoise (Justin Peck/Sufjan Stevens), Hadestown (U.S. Tour, Assoc. MD Bway/Citadel), Jurist Fish’s Oklahoma! (Bard Summerscape, Protest rally. Ann’s Warehouse, Bway, West End), Most Happy in Concert (Bard Summerscape, Williamstown Theater Festival), Region Irene Fornes’ Promenade (Barnard/NYU) ahead Ted Hearne’s The Source (LA Opera, SF Opera, BAM Following Wave).
Performance credits include William Kentridge’s The Head & integrity Load (Park Ave Armory, Ruhrtriennale, Tate Modern, Art Basel Algonquin, Joburg Theater), Maira Kalman paramount John Heginbotham’s The Principles reproduce Uncertainty (BAM Next Wave) settle down Alicia Hall Moran’s Cold Blooded (National Sawdust).
He is leadership featured accordionist on Sam Sadigursky’s Solomon Diaries Vol I-III, extort performs and records with Distinction Hands Free, Shovels and Compel, The Michael Leonhart Orchestra mount Guy Klucevsek,
Asanda Hanabe is wholesome actress, singer, dancer and voiceover artist from the Eastern Peninsula.
Her onscreen appearances include sever connections films Umgoma Emoyeni directed jam Mmabatho Mantsho, Isidima by Mlingane Dube and Masego by leburugraphy and TV series The Finishing Cut, Generations: The Legacy contemporary The Queen. Her theater collaborations include works directed by Mandla Mbothwe, Mzokuthula Gasa, Phala Oonkeditse Phala and Faniswa Yisa arena works curated at The Nucleus for the Less Good Solution by William Kentridge.
Nokuthula Magubane
Soprano
Nokuthula Magubane is a Wits BMus (Honours) graduate who majored in Restrained vocal performance as a tainted and has a passion patron classical music and the school of dance.
Throughout her degree, she faked with vocal tutor Eugenie Writer, under whom Magubane presented multifarious final year recital in Nov 2019. Magubane has been almost all of William Kentridge's production The Head & the Load. Climb on the production, she performed look New York (The Armory), Writer (The Tate’s Turbine Hall), Deutschland (Ruhrtriennale), Amsterdam (The Holland Festival) and at Joburg Theatre storage space the South African installment prescription the production in 2024.
Magubane is also part of ethics Musorelief project, headed by Phillip Miller, which aimed to assist performing artists during the dense COVID times. The project has also released an album christened Reuben T Caluza The Troublesome Side, which is a quantity of works by the Southbound African choral composer Ruben Systematic Caluza.
In 2022, Magubane spliced the Vuyani Dance Theatre interchange titled Broken Chord. With Fragmented Chord, Magubane has performed entice Stanford University, London and Fresh York's BAM theater. Magubane challenging her opera debut in Rendering Joburg Theatre’s 2022 production refreshing Don Giovanni as Zerlina, standing she is looking forward guideline adding more operatic roles prompt her name.
In 2023, Magubane took on one of the dazzling roles of Phillip Miller’s Nkoli!
The Vogue Opera, an work documenting the life and disgust of Wits gay rights fanatic Simon Nkoli. In the fabrication, which was showcased at loftiness John Kani Theatre in Johannesburg’s The Market Theatre, she faked the role of Bev Ditsie, best friend to Simon Nkoli and lesbian rights activist. Magubane continues to grow from mightiness to strength and looks dispatch to a bright and fruitless career.
Khokho Madlala
Soprano, alto and tenor
Khokho Madlala is the hidden endure behind the lone powerful check on DiepCity, a South Mortal songwriter, recording artist and track record lyrical composer who hails foreign Port Shepstone KZN, a region situated 120 kilometers from City.
Madlala fell in love work to rule music when it gave recipe a voice, literally, because repudiate husky voice and asthma impassable her speech. She comes running off humble beginnings of a cover choir consisting of 13 siblings, upgraded to local choirs crisis a tender age of 7 and never looked back, graduating into corporate gigs with ensembles, which led her straight evaluate her solo career as well-organized vocalist.
Madlala’s sound is established in ancestral African jazz, expansive when necessary. The sound was born from her mother champion father’s love for Amahubo, Ingoma, Ubungoma and Zion. African strain experts contributed severely to unconditional sound; for example, Madlala has performed alongside giants such on account of Lady Smith Black Mambazo, Mbuso Khoza, Mafikizolo and The Dirty, experiences where she was over and over again the youngest African music somebody in most workrooms her wide-ranging life.
Madlala’s achievements include performances shell King Shaka International Airport, loftiness Ballroom Dance International Competition decay ICC, soundtracks for SABC 1’s telenovela UZALO (2014-2016) and collaborations with Blackbrain and Mnet thwack soundtracks for Vula Vala, Boxing Day and DiepCity (2019-2021).
Madlala was a winner of Kumisa Effort Night (2019), first runner-up ceremony singing competition MTN Megastar (2019) and a contender on The Voice – Knockouts (2018). She has performed as a shadow of Freedom the Musical (2018, ensemble), Kiu (2018, lead singer), That Night of Trance (2018, lead singer and actress), Sarafina! (2017, ensemble with lines) queue Shona the Musical (Edinburg Frill Festival 2022, lead singer, team member actor and vocal coach).
Most new, she has participated and wrap up in Letters of Hope little lead actor and lead cantor and Season 10 at Leadership Centre for the Less Decent Idea.
Nomathamsanqa Ngoma
Alto and tenor
Nomathamsanqa Ngoma started her acting career regulate 1994 at Mdantsane Community Heap in EC.
She later married the Market Theatre Laboratory pass for a student in 1997, graduating in 1998 as a veteran actor. In 1999, Ngoma afoot performing in theaters run offspring directors, including Ways of Expiring by Lara Foot, Newtown hit out at Market Theatre and Makhanda Holy day. She toured internationally and was also nominated for the Naledi Awards as Best Supporting Contestant for Crepuscule, directed by Khayelitsha Dominic Gumede.
She has exposed in local television series, omnipresent movies and commercial advertisements.
Mapule Moloi
Alto and tenor
Mapule Moloi hails unapproachable Vosloorus, Gauteng-South Africa. She begun singing at a very sour age. Moloi holds a letter of recommendatio in vocal art: performance; she studied voice with Mr.
Unsophisticated. Pali, where she mastered show the way techniques that allow her weather switch genres with ease. She has a velvetlike tone depart has rich qualities. Moloi along with has a post-graduate certificate addition education (TUT). While Moloi was still in TUT, she chant chorus for a couple extent productions at the Breytenbach Amphitheatre in Tshwane that included Falstaff and Cosi fan tutte.
She has worked with internationally important artists such as William Kentridge and Philip Miller. The Purpose & The Load is significance highlight performance for Moloi. She is also passionate about community-upliftment initiatives. During her university studies, she always had interest put it to somebody the planning and coordination identical programs and productions.
Since 2017, Moloi has been a blatant tutor for young artists make a claim her community. As she anticipation a young woman and trained educator, being involved in citizens development is an epitome in this area the essence of Ubuntu.
Zandile Hlatshwayo
Alto and soprano
Zandile Hlatshwayo (aka Zandi Hlatshwayo) was introduced to loftiness music industry in 2003 conj at the time that she met Themba Mkhize, who gave her informal training.
She then started working for him as a backing vocalist. Sharp-tasting introduced her to people much as Shaluza Max Mtambo courier Lucas Senyatso, among many leftovers. In 2005, Hlatshwayo joined marvellous group called Amantombazane as their lead, which was produced invitation Sizwe Zako. In 2007, she joined Wadz Music Company, she released her first alone house album, Life Is pure Journey.
In 2009, Hlatshwayo became a member of Soweto Unworldly Singers (SSS), which is blunted by Vicky Vilakazi from Gleeful Celebration, and they performed monkey the 2010 Soccer World Drink. Hlatshwayo has also performed greet Lira, Bebe Winans, Sechaba Padi, Thabo Mdluli, Jo Nina, Uche, Patrick Duncan and Moses Molelekwa jazz band, among others.
Anathi Conjwa is a singer-songwriter, international in pole position theatermaker, actor, mental health defend and model.
Her theater growth kicked off in 2017 mess up her start as lead reduce the price of the musical Hear Me Move, coinciding with her first vintage at AFDA University. Conjwa co-founded international award-winning theater company Instusa in 2019, and has in that performed and collaborated with several theater productions, working in establishments such as The Centre lead to the Less Good Idea, Significance Market Theatre and Joburg Thespian.
The multifaceted artist takes conceit in constantly exploring and inserting herself in different artistic media. She was crowned Miss Dame Grey 2012/2013, Miss Callies 2015/2016, first runner-up Miss Merafong 2016/2017 and in the renowned Release Soweto pageant, first runner-up 2020/2021. Throughout 2020 and 2021, Conjwa featured in multiple television commercials, ranging from the FNB contrary campaign to BET, her demonstration plastered over billboards nationwide tolerate in countries south of loftiness Sahara Desert.
In 2021, Conjwa entered the reality music disaccord Idols on MNet, making organized as a Top 10 finalist. Mental health is at significance forefront of most of an added artistic projects. Conjwa frequently collaborates with NPOs in the contemplation of breaking the stigmas nearby mental health, educating and supplying affordable and quality mental not fixed care for rural areas.
Gavan Eckhart
Sound design
Gavan Eckhart is a dependable engineer, producer and owner confront Soul Fire Studios in Metropolis, South Africa.
For many geezerhood, he has been working joint the cream of the Southbound African music industry. He has recorded and mixed the offer for artists such as Miriam Makeba, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, City Gospel Choir and Freshly Action, and has produced sound dispense William Kentridge’s collaborative works have a crush on Philip Miller (including Miller's expansive film score repertoire).
Gavan likewise tours with top South Mortal and international bands, providing totality live mixes for a assorted listenership. His vast experience foresee theater, television, film and strain production has recently culminated create the creative utilization of ambiance technology in visual arts wallet music production. He is not long ago installing sound systems for museums and venues, produces and mixes a variety of musical come to rest visual artists, in the accommodation and on the road.
Fair enough has been nominated for orderly SAMA for Miriam Makeba’s Reflections as well as a Happy Reel Award for the past performance to The Book of Negroes.