New season of dance from Flatfoot

The Flatfoot contemporary dance company presents a new season calledEnkundlenifor two performances only at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban on Friday, May 8 at 7pm and Saturday, May 9 at 2.30pm. Referencing open spaces where we gather, the production offers audiences four new cutting-edge works created by company dancers, Sifiso Khumalo, Jabu Siphika, Siseko Duba, and Zinhle Nzama, with direction and dramaturgy by company artistic director Lliane Loots. “It’s a programme of dance that reminds us of the power of our bodies to tell stories; stories of pain and triumph, of deep self-reflections and of community,” says Loots.

“These works honour the storyteller in all of us, as we see the six incredible dancers of Flatfoot tackle the most personal and most beautiful parts of being human at this time in our difficult geopolitics”. Duba’s quartet,iPupho, dives into the powerful and mysterious terrain of dreams. The work captures the uncanny experience of awakening within a dream – where the body moves through worlds that feel intensely real, yet remain just beyond reach.

Given the deep African connection to ancestral presence and dreams, this work navigates a very contemporary world of memory, self, and belonging. Nzama’s duet,Brightest Darkness, explores the deep paradox of finding light within darkness. It is an intimate duet between a man and a woman, where these two figures navigate tension, resistance, connection, and letting go, as an act of courage rather than defeat. Siphika’s solo work,Ngibize Siphi?, explores the search for identity through the question of one’s surname.