Hotel

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‘Hotel’ featuring compositions by Philip Miller and costumes by Robyn De Klerk, is a multi-layered, dance theatre work using Guillaume Apollinaire’s poem of the same name as an starting point. People, thoughts and ideas check-in and check-out, some linger and occupy, whilst some depart as quickly as they arrive. It is an uncontrollable place which is sometimes real and then again, sometimes only in our subconscious.

Our mind becomes our hotel, a place which can be shrouded in secrecy and anonymity. Welcome to the ‘Hotel’ of the mind!

Mark Hawkins would personally like to thank the following:

The Creative Team for their continuous belief and adding their creative expertise to this project. Robert Whitehead, Vanessa Cooke, Mary-Ann Mottram, BUZ Publicity, Diane Willis, and the MIDM Management & Staff for their untiring support and assistance during the creation of this work. The dancers for their commitment, inspiration, dedication, creative input and complete trust during the creation of ‘HOTEL’. The Dance Umbrella Management, Staff and Funders.

Acknowledgements:

Special thanks to National Arts Council, Rand Merchant Bank, Anglo American and National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund

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Below is a video compilation of excerpts from the Dance Umbrella Performance
 

Additional Info

  • Choreographer: Mark Hawkins in collaboration with the MIDM dancers
  • Venue/Time: THE WITS THEATRE, FEB 28 & MARCH 1 @ 20:30.
  • Title of Work: Hotel
  • Music: Philip Miller (selections from his recordings: Shona Malanga CD, Music from the Films of William Kentridge CD, The sound track to the film, Max and Mona), Arrangement of Ave Maria with Neo Muyanga. Translation by Neo Muyanga
  • Costume Design: Robyn De Klerk
  • Set Design: Andrew Botha
  • Lighting Design: Julian August
  • Director/Artistic Director: none
  • Dancers/Performers/Cast: Sonia Thandazile Radebe, Thembekile Hope Setiabi, Muzi Macaleni Shili, Thandiwe Winnie Tshabalala, Sunnyboy Motau and Fana Albert Tshabalala, Julia Zenzie Burnham and Teboho Letele (aspirant dancers)
  • Video: Projections & AV: Karen Logan of Amehlo Production
  • Other: Philip Miller (selections from his recordings: Shona Malanga CD, Music from the Films of William Kentridge CD, The sound track to the film, Max and Mona), Arrangement of Ave Maria with Neo Muyanga. Translation by Neo Muyanga
  • Company: commissioned by Moving into Dance Mophatong
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