Postponed-Burn

Wits Theatre is proud to present Burn after its two sold out performances at the 969 Festival in July.

NOTE: It is with great regret that the Wits Theatre is forced to postpone the performances of BURN scheduled for this week (14-16 October) at Wits Theatre, East Campus Braamfontein.

Burn is cancelled until further notice .Please note that if you have purchased tickets from Webtickets, they will refund you directly on request. We regret the inconvenience incurred.

Back by popular demand, the production is presented in association with Match Box Collective in collaboration with Liquid Fusion. This full length dance theatre duet explores the tense relationship between Earth and Man, and how the two hold each other to ransom. Burn is strong, powerful and explosive, testing the limits of the human body.

The unknown future rolls towards us. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves. Could we wake up one day to find the world on fire? Maybe we will not see it coming and not be able to stop it.

Fire exists as a duality of life and death, it nurtures and threatens. Inspired in part by ‘Fire on the Mountain’ by Arthur Golding, fire represents a tool that separates humankind from the animals and represents both savagery and hope.

Choreographed and directed by Matchbox Theatre Collective’s Bailey Snyman and performed by Liquid Fusion’s Mark Tatham and Daniel Geddes, BURN chronicles man’s relationship with Mother Earth. BURN is an epic tale told through dance about man’s discovery of the world he inhabits and the consequences of his unprecedented failure to preserve this relationship.

BURN walks the tenuous line between past, present and future of our collective history with fire and results in an explosive conclusion that comments on the visible effects of our inability to preserve our precious resources.

Fresh from performances in Iceland, Norway, Greece the show went on to a run in Grahamstown where the it won a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival, 2016. BURN exhilarates with relentless choreography as two men navigate the creation myth, the art of war and the desolation of post-apocalyptic destruction.

BURN’s original soundtrack composed by Geddes and edited by Snyman is a haunting exploration of fire and an emotional tribute to this planet we call home.

Music, bodies and choreography collude in a life that becomes a race with the fire. 

BURN premiered during an artistic residency at The Freezer Theatre in Iceland in March 2016, before moving on to performances in Norway and Greece. It continued with a run at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in July where it won a prestigious Standard Bank Ovation Award in July 2016.

Humanity is the Earth’s most intimate friend.

Links to reviews, further details, and multimedia for Burn below:

Video links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TjXoKlk5gY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpojykucusM

Newspaper Review: http://cuemedia.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Full-Edition-8-for-WEB.pdf (The article is on Page 17, Touched by a Flame by Jessica White)

Photographs:
http://icue.ru.ac.za/index.php/CuePix-2016/FRINGE/DANCE/Burn
http://www.liquidfusionsa.com/burn-gallery

About the Show: http://www.liquidfusionsa.com/burn

Free parking is available in Senate House; the entrance is on Jorissen Street, Braamfontein

VENUE: Wits Downstairs Theatre, Braamfontein East Campus
SEASON:  14, 15 & 16 October 2016
RUNNING TIME: Forty five minutes; no interval.
SEASON:  Friday 14, Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 October 2016
14 October @ 20h00; 15 October @ 20h00 & 16 October @ 15h00

BOOKING: www.webtickets.co.za                                                 
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Discount for students and pensioners         R 70.00
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Age restriction: PG

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