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

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David Thatanelo April is a dancer, choreographer, and performing artist and was the co-curator of The Centre for the Less Good Idea’s 5th Season. Javier Velázquez Cabrero  is a visual artist and dancer who collaborated with Teresa Phuti Mojela on the 2018 For Once performance ‘Pedi’ at The Centre for the Less Good Idea.

Having met in Johannesburg in late 2018, April and Cabrero are intending to develop a hybrid body of dance, building on and connecting to one another’s gestures while drawing on various existing dance forms such as Indlamu (traditional Zulu dance), Setapa (traditional Tswana dance), Flamenco (traditional Spanish dance) and street dance. Here the two have manifested a physical dialogue by revealing the stages of their exchange. Music for this Long Minute is by another frequent collaborator at The Centre, João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga who has collaborated on Seasons 1, 3, and 5.