Detours Festival

Celebrate the Detours Festival fifth birthday this year with a series of workshops that are open to both students and the public.

The DETOURS festival is proud to announce the celebration of its fifth birthday this year. In 2016 we are taking a moment to reflect upon the last four years, the founding ethos of the festival and our growth as an experimental fringe platform. We continue to promote alternative and experimental approaches to movement composition, choreography and physical theatre. This year DETOURS responds directly to the academic climate both of Wits other campuses across South Africa by encouraging our students performers to engage with themes of creative resistance and insurrection .

Since its inception in 2012, DETOURS has placed the nurturing of students and young professionals at the heart of its programme and this year it will include work from Wits senior Physical Theatre Students, Wits Fourth year Dance Theatre and Composition Choreography students as well as work from Tshwane University of Technology and City Varsity. We are also very excited to announce an international exchange with the Dance Department at the University of Coventry, London. This exchange will take place in the form of an Online Interactive Learning Project between 10 students at the University of Coventry and 10 students from the Division of Theatre and Performance, Wits University. This project is process-orientated involving the students completing four choreographic tasks in the four weeks leading up to the festival. The nature of this exchange is to encourage students to work independently and use online platforms to communicate and share their choreographic explorations and discoveries. The cross-continental online interaction of this process will be documented and presented at the DETOURS festival platform. This presentation will take the form of a live Skype call between participants, where participants can interact and reflect on the project.

DETOURS is interested in maintaining and growing the connections and relationships we have made with participants and students across the years. In 2016 we will be showcasing solo work from Nomcebisi Moyikwa, currently based at Rhodes University and Kwanele Finch Thusi, currently based in Johannesburg. Thusi will also be engaging with the work of the Wits Fourth-year choreography students during process and assisting these students in the realisation of their choreographic works.

To enhance the educational aspect of the festival, DETOURS will be hosting a series of workshops that are open to both students and the public. We are excited to once again be hosting a workshop by Mersiha Mesihovic (NY) as well as workshops hosted by Nomcebisi Moyika and Kwanele Finch Thusi.

Directed by: Joni Barnard and Jane Crewe and produced by Wits Theatre for Wits School of Art, Division of Theatre and Performance
Venue: Detours will be held in the Wits Downstairs Theatre
Dates: 26^th, 27^th May @ 19:30, 28^th May @ 18:00, 29^th May @ 15:00

Ticket Prices:
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Full price: R45 online | R50 @ door
Students and Pensioners: R30 online | R40 @ door
Block Booking of 10 or more: R30 per person
WitsTix, R 10 online I R 15 @ the door
WITSTIX: 27^th, 29^th May

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