{"id":600,"date":"2018-04-22T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/supplychainstrategynow.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2025-06-11T10:09:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T10:09:44","slug":"why-setting-a-dance-about-apartheid-on-american-dancers-makes-sense-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/supplychainstrategynow.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/22\/why-setting-a-dance-about-apartheid-on-american-dancers-makes-sense-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Setting a Dance About Apartheid on American Dancers Makes Sense Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tWhen Kevin \u201cIega\u201d Jeff saw Fana Tshabalala<\/a>\u2018s Indumba<\/em> at the annual JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience<\/a> in South Africa, he immediately knew he would ask Tshabalala to set the work on his company.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\u201cThere\u2019s an ancient energy in Fana\u2019s movement, a deep and trusted knowing,\u201d says Jeff, director of the Chicago-based Deeply Rooted Dance Theater<\/a>. \u201cBecause I witnessed the raw humanity of his dancer\u2019s souls, I wanted my dancers to have that experience.\u201d<\/strong>\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIndumba<\/em>
\n\t\t\t refers to a hut used by Sangoma, or a traditional healer, in South Africa for healing and cleansing in a sacred place. Tshabalala had conducted research for the piece in Maputo, Mozambique, where he learned about cleansing rituals that took place after the civil war there. \u201cVeterans were cleansed traditionally, because they believe they carried bad spirits that might affect the community,\u201d he says.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t \u201cIndumba could help in cleansing.\u201d Photo by Ken Carl, via bam.org<\/a><\/small>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHe welcomed the chance to create an American-focused version for DRDT because he believes that \u201cthe impact of apartheid is the same as what America is experiencing internally\u2026America is going through a social and political transformation and, Indumba<\/em> could help in cleansing.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIndumba<\/em>
\n\t is intensely improvisational and is based on artists working together through movement and dialogue in \u201can open choreographic process\u201d to create their own Indumba\u2014their own sacred place to express their freedom and \u201cto be different from the outside world,\u201d says Tshabalala.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWorking with the dancers of DRDT proved special in reckoning this charge. \u201cIt was a matter of giving them an opportunity to release what was inside through movement and putting that into an existing structure.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTo watch his African-American dancers work with Tshabalala\u2019s South African dancers, Jeff says, \u201cit felt like home.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIndumba<\/em>
\n\t runs at BAM Fisher<\/a> in Brooklyn, New York, April 28 and 29.<\/p>\n

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