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Dance is music: Lighting by Oliver Hauser and set design by Willy Cesar foreground space, line and form. Everything, Maqoma says, is architectural. Photo: Arthur Dlamini

Gregory Maqoma’s ‘Genesis’ is not an ending

The renowned choreographer returns to the Baxter not as performer but architect, with Genesis, a daring meditation on beginnings, endings and Black consciousness

  • Eyaaz
7 min read
Behind the soundscape: Charl-Johan Lingenfelder, above, behind the scenes of Moffie, for which he created soundscape. Photos: Daniel Rutland Manners

Moffie: The goosebumps are real

Charl-Johan Lingenfelder transforms theatre through sound, turning noise into emotion in his latest work Moffie

  • Eyaaz
8 min read
In from the cold: A scene from Bitter Winter, Paul Slabolepszy’s new play, which is on at the Baxter in Cape Town. Photos: RegardsVisser

Bitter Winter: the show will go on but what of the people in it?

An old actor, a young upstart, and a kettle on the fritz — Bitter Winter turns the ordinary into something unforgettable

  • Eyaaz
8 min read
Actor Tony Miyambo

Kafka’s Ape is brave, gripping, important theatre

In a one-man show that has been touring the world for years, a larger-than-life actor offers theatre at its pure, raw, fearless best

  • Eyaaz
6 min read
Louise Coetzer’s work autoplay — Africa’s first AI opera — explores the intersection between human creativity and machine learning and where it could lead, with a soundscape featuring Inge Beckmann.

Dancing with the machine: autoplay and the future of AI-driven art

Louise Coetzer flirted with the enemy to create experimental dance-opera autoplay. But her message is one of resistance

  • Des Erasmus
6 min read