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Out the Box have a dynamic line up at their mini conference and workshops

Aja Marneweck will be convening a conference entitled The Role of Women in the Development and Creation of Puppetry and Visual Theatre in Contemporary Performance at the upcoming Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance in Cape Town.

Leading female contemporary performance artists, directors, visual theatre leaders, creatives, anarchists, innovators and producers will come together to discuss contentious and innovative approaches to the representation of feminine experience, desire and identity.  With  speakers that include Avital Dvori (Israel), Nandipha Mntambo, Julia Raynham (Resonance Bazar), Mothertongue Project, Mamela
Nyamza, Tamara Guhrs (Njala), Mitzi Sinnott (USA), Caroline Calburn (Theatre Arts Admin Collective) and Tanya Surtees (FTHK), the Out the Box Conference 2010 will be exploring the transformative role women play in the development and creation of contemporary Visual Performance. This discussion will be looking both at the role women play in transforming the creative, social, cultural and political spaces of contemporary performance, the innovation of their craft as well as the development of platforms, programming and production leadership in Visual Performance.

Several interesting workshops and lectures will also be presented: Mechanics of Emotion and The Philosophy of Breath by the legendary Handspring Puppet Company; No Strings Strings Attached/Partnering the Object by the Duda Paiva Company from Holland ;   Humour, Objects and Imagination by Koldobika G. Vio from Spain and Playing with Masks by Laen Hersler from Canada. Jane Taylor, who is currently writing a book about the making of William Kentridge’s new opera The Nose,  will give an illustrated talk about his direction of this eccentric opera that opened in February at The Met in New York.

The Out The Box Festival of Puppetry & Visual  Performance is directed by Janni Younge and artistic director Jaqueline  Dommisse. It is a visual feast of drama and dance performances, workshops, talks, exhibitions and films that caters for adults and children alike and takes place from 20 to 28 March at the Baxter Theatre Centre, The UCT Hiddingh Campus in the Gardens and at the Labia Cinema on Orange Street.

The Women in Visual Performance will take place at the UCT Lecture Theatre on Wednesday 24th March from 09h30 to 17h30. For details about how to enrol for the workshops and lectures and for the various requirements needed to participate, visit www.outtheboxfestival.com or call 021 462 5811.

The Out The Box Festival would not be possible without the support of several generous sponsors and partners, namely Business and Arts South Africa, Standard Bank, Distell, the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport (Western Cape), Africalia-Belgium, Swiss Arts Council – Prohelvetia,  Handspring, Art Moves Africa, the Cape Film Commission, Cape Town Tourism, Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, Belgian Embassy Flemish Representation, Eurocape Holdings, Fiona Baumann, Israeli Foreign Ministry,  the Baxter Theatre, the Little Theatre, Strategic Partners, Lucid Pictures, The Big Issue, DigitalBrothers, Assitej, Rainbow Experiential Marketing, Animation SA and the Labia Cinema.
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