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

FETCH

Julia Zenzie Burnham and Teresa Phuti Mojela fulfil a multitude of roles in the art world as performers, choreographers, teachers, mentors, and founders of their own projects and productions.

This Considered 3 Minutes is an ongoing investigation – a thinking through movement in an attempt to find alternative languages and deepen our awareness.

Fetch seeks to investigate and perhaps even embody abuse. Focusing on the relationship between the presence of abuse and the person facing abuse, the artists are interested in the manifestation of abuse within intimate relationships and the home. In this search so far, the artists have found the presence of intimacy, power, submission, repetition, and exhaustion.

Burnham began her career at a young age with various groups in the Alexandra Township, and has gone on to develop her career through working with Moving Into Dance Mophatong, Vuyani Dance Theatre, and the Dance Factory to name a few. More recently she has travelled the world performing with The Head and the Load by William Kentridge, and Giselle by Dada Masilo.

Mojela began her career with Township Mirror Theatre Group based in Tembisa. She went on to study drama and dance and has worked with Vuyani Dance Theatre and Moving Into Dance Mophatong. More recently, Mojela has been travelling as a key performer in William Kentridge’s Waiting for Sibyl.