Opening night of Season 6 features VUKA KLEVA

Conceptualised & directed by | Vusi Mdoyi
Dramaturgy by | Phala Ookeditse Phala
Performed by | Elma Motloenya, Lungile Ngwenya, Bukhosibakhe Letsekha & Paballo Phiri
Percussion by | Michael Micca Manganye & Vuyani Feni
Creative & production contributions by | Vusi Arts Projects (VAP), Kgotosofalang Moshe Mavundla & Petros Lephoto

Since its inception in 1950s South Africa, panstula has been an artform that is at once evocative of the environment it is being practiced in, and responsive to the ongoing political and cultural on goings of the broader country. 

In Vuka Kleva, pantsula is used to trace the everyday rhythms of systems of labour, capital, and human energy. Dancer, teacher, choreographer and pantsula Vusi Mdoyi and his ensemble of dancers use performance as a means of speaking to the night shifts and nine-to-fives, the commutes in and out of the city, the frenetic energy of the assembly line, the grinding nature of a city gridlocked by labour, or bodies caught up in ritualistic toil.  

Vuka Kleva is a performance that speaks to the nature, syncopation, and the complicated human mechanics of work and embodied labour.   

Cinematography by | Noah Cohen
Sound by | SoulFire Studio
Writing by | Dave Mann