DOUBLE BILL GALA: BRIDGES & ARCHES / TOO LATE

The evocatively titled BRIDGES & ARCHES is the 2019 edition of the NSA popular Dance Spectrum and features the work of four leading female choreographers: Kitty Phetla (the recipient of the 2019 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Dance), Shanell Winlock -Pailman, Nadine Buys and Rosana Maya.

TOO LATE is a dramatic, humorous, heart-breaking snapshot of mid-70’s South Africa / Soweto; a reflection and a reminder of a distant and painful past. This is the era of apartheid police brutality, pass laws, shattered dreams and on-going tragedy and loss.

A protagonist is a young man called Saduva. In characteristic Kente style, it is the human interest story and the indestructible power of lo