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The 50 Years of Dance Celebratory Festival is an exciting, stimulating and thoroughly celebratory programme, elevating and honouring the life-changing impact and longevity of contemporary dance in South Africa. The festival showcases an exciting host of national and international guest companies and artists, featuring Jazzart's young, energetic, and ambitious students, their professional company of dancers.
Jazzart's celebrated alumni Sifiso Kweyama, Celeste Botha and Shaun Oelf showcase works alongside multiple award-winning artists Vincent Mantsoe and Gregory Maqoma. They are joined by South African dance legend Sylvia Glasser and Moving into Dance which shares a historic legacy with Jazzart, being one of South Africa's longest standing contemporary dance companies.
The programme includes solos, duets and short works created by graduates from Jazzart and a collaborative work with Unmute Dance Theatre by Andile Vellem and Yaseen Manuel.
