The Centre for the Less Good Idea is an interdisciplinary incubator space for the arts based in Maboneng, Johannesburg

DESERT | THE CAST

Meet the outstanding artists performing Lindiwe Matshikiza 's DESERT for Season 3

Lindiwe is one of 3 core curators of Season 3, as a performer, director and writer she uses her background in theatre-making as a base from which to approach work that is predominantly collaborative and cross-disciplinary.

For Season 3 she has gathered a group of artists working in various disciplines to explore an experimental treatment of Desert, a piece originally written as a play.

Mncedisi Shabangu is an artist of critical acclaim in local theatre, he marks his debut at the Centre in this performance of DESERT. Mncedisi has collaborated with many of the countries greats, including Robyn Orlin, Lara Foot, James Ngcobo, Malcom Purkey, Aubrey Sekhabi, Paul Grootboom, Vice Monageng, Prince Lamla and William Kentridge.

Choreographer extraordinaire, Mele Broomes is based in Glasgow and the Centre is honoured to have her join us for this season. Mele's work experiments with the extremities of movement and voice, she is the Artistic Director of Various Dance Artists (V/DA) and Co-Founder/Lead Artists of Project X. Mele has performed nationally and internationally and has choreographed works that has been presented across the UK.