{"id":14192,"date":"2009-11-19T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T14:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=14192"},"modified":"2023-01-25T15:46:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T20:46:30","slug":"maqoma-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/11\/19\/maqoma-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: South African dancer and choreographer Gregory Maqoma spends a week in residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;As a black African dancer, I am constantly expected to conform to stereotypical perceptions of the Western world and of African traditionalists. Africa is widely perceived on the one hand as a war zone ravaged by the Aids pandemic and poverty and on the other hand as exotic, colourful and primitive. I propose to deconstruct this stereotype through my personal history, my work as a performer and choreographer living in a city and my research on urban popular contemporary intercultural dance forms.&#8221; <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2009\/10\/15\/maqoma-dance\/\">Gregory Maqoma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In its first-ever concert held during the academic year, the internationally acclaimed <a href=\"http:\/\/abacus.bates.edu\/dancefest\/\">Bates Dance Festival<\/a> collaborated with the <a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/tag\/concerts-committee\/\">Bates College Concerts Committee<\/a> to present <a href=\"http:\/\/abacus.bates.edu\/dancefest\/ArtistNotes\/gregorymaqoma08.php\"><em>Beautiful Me<\/em><\/a> by the renowned South African company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vuyani.co.za\/\">Vuyani Dance Theatre <\/a>on Oct. 16 in Bates College&#8217;s Schaeffer Theatre. The performance kicked off the troupe&#8217;s North American tour.<\/p>\n<p>A global fusion of rousing live music sets the pace for this solo tour de force by the exquisite dancer and choreographer <a href=\"http:\/\/mappinternational.org\/artists\/view\/44\">Gregory Maqoma<\/a>, a rising star on South Africa&#8217;s dance and theater scene. <em>Beautiful Me<\/em> speaks honestly about the profound task of finding one&#8217;s authentic voice and redefining our notion of postmodern African choreography.<\/p>\n<p>During his week in residence at Bates, Maqoma and his company members &#8212; Isaac Katlego Molelekoa; violin; Mandla Madienkosi Nhlapo, percussion; Bongani Kunene, cello; and Poorvi Bhana, sitar &#8212; offered a noonday concert, gave master dance workshops, spoke to music and anthropology classses and with members of Amandla!, and met with faculty members whose teaching focuses on Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a glimpse of his experience at Bates, watch the following short video.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Beautiful Me&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NFY0S-KPziw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As a black African dancer, I am constantly expected to conform to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,11010,6],"tags":[1407,60,3981,10898,71,10834],"class_list":["post-14192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-arts","category-maine-world","tag-bates-dance-festival","tag-dance","tag-gregory-maqoma","tag-modern-dance","tag-theater","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76111,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192\/revisions\/76111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}