Curated by performer, musician, writer, and educator Bongile Gorata Lecoge-Zulu, Season 8 of performances at Joburg's collaborative and cross-disciplinary art space, The Centre for the Less Good Idea, takes place live from Oct 20 to 24 in Maboneng.
Fresh from the success of the Centre's exciting week-long return to live performance in September, Season 8 continues the momentum with a live performance programme of brand new collaborative, experimental, and interdisciplinary works. Season 8 has been inspired by "the provocations of breath and mythology". Encompassing themes of breath as an engine, as a language, and as a space, the works also delve into religion, spirituality, imagination, personal and contemporary mythology.
In particular, the 18 works selected for this season prize the musical, physical, and the narrative, mixing emotions from the humorous to the absurd and contemplative.
Season 8 performances and ticketing
Season 7 is broadly divided into four programmes, each featuring a complementary series of short performance pieces by an array of collaborators. The performances take place at the Centre for Less Good Idea's event spaces and studios at Arts on Main in Maboneng. Tickets for each performance programme cost R100 and can be bought online at lessgoodidea.com.Here's a look at the Season 8 programme of events at a glance:
Wed Oct 20 Exhibition launch Thinking in Poetry and Cardboard exhibition and book launch Woven with Brown Thread (18:00), Programme 1 at events space (19:00), Programme 1 at the Centre (20:30)
Thu Oct 21 Programme 2 at the events space (19:00), Programme 2 at the Centre (20:30)
Fri Oct 22 Programme 3 at events space (19:00), Programme 1 at the Centre (20:30)
Sat Oct 23 Programme 4 at events space (19:00), Programme 2 at the Centre (20:30)
Sun Oct 24 Programme 3 at events space (15:30)
Season 8 art exhibition
So Academy | Thinking in poetry and cardboard exhibition2nd space, open from Wed Oct 20 to Sun Oct 24 (from 17:00 on Wed and from 13:00 Thu–Sun)
In addition to the performance programmes of Season 8, a multi-media exhibition is on show in the 2nd Space exhibition area at the Centre throughout the season. The exhibition features cardboard models and short videos created through the Thinking in Cardboard Mentorship Programme, short videos from the Poetry Minute series curated by Bongile Gorata Lecoge-Zulu, and videos showcasing the poetry of Woven with Brown Thread, an anthology created as part of the Khala Series | 100 Poems project.
The exhibition opens on Wed Oct 20 at 18:00, coinciding with the book launch of the poetry anthology Woven with Brown Thread. Entrance is free.
SEASON 8 PERFORMANCES
At The Events Space, Programme 1
Wed Oct 20 at 19:00 at the Events SpaceSONG CYCLE Misread | Withdraw | Disregard
IN OUT & ABOVE Sense | Of | Self
BASSLEXIA Sonic | Adhesive | Erudition
PITSANA Cook | Cooking | Cooked
TORO Fragments | Beyond | Ethereal
At The Centre, Programme 1
Wed Oct 20 at 20:30 and Fri Oct 22 at 20:30 at The CentreWHAT IS IT? Myth | Mith | Meeth
ISITHUNYWA Song | Forcefield | Spirit
At The Events Space, Programme 2
Thu Oct 21 at 19:00 at Events SpaceSONG CYCLE Misread | Withdraw | Disregard
HARD BUT FRAGILE Hard | Haunting | Tender
BASSLEXIA Sonic | Adhesive | Erudition
PITSANA Cook | Cooking | Cooked
TORO Fragments | Beyond | Ethereal
At The Centre, Programme 2
Thu Oct 21 at 20:30 and Sat Oct 23 at 20:30 at The CentreCHUME & SUNDE Stone | Love | Story
BA MOEPO Bodies | Mines | Betrayed
At Events Space, Programme 3
Fri Oct 22 at 19:00 and Sun Oct 24 at 15:30 at Events SpaceGA RE LEBALA: WHEN WE FOR(GET) Norm | Hierarchy | Blank
NOT A MACHINE Practice | Manipulation | Living
SLEEPWALKING LAND Dream | Imagination | Boy
BOLOBEDU Sustenance | Ancestry | Rain
INKOMO Balance | Humanity | Essence
At Events Space, Programme 4
Sat Oct 23 at 19:00 at Events SpaceHASHTAG Soft | Life | Underground Gang
THE WATER TOOK MY BREATH AWAY Coincidental | Existence | Afterlife
DID YOU KNOW?! Meanings | Origins | Patterns
HARD BUT FRAGILE Hard | Haunting | Tender
IN OUT & ABOVE Sense | Of | Self
