Genesis – The Beginning and End of Time

Following its successful appearances in 2022 and 2023, the Johannesburg Dance Theatre returns once again to the city of the classics. Gregory Maqoma and his dance ensemble are a huge audience draw (not only) at Kunstfest Weimar. In 2022 the company was a huge hit at the festival with »CION«. Its follow-up project will now receive its European premiere at the 2025 festival: »Genesis – The Beginning and End of Time«. Here star choreographer Maqoma will renew his artistic collaboration with the composer Nhlanhla Mahlangu, creating dance to rhythms and melodies that exude the vitality and virtuosity of South African culture, while also reflecting the wars of our own time and the difficult legacy of apartheid and colonialism. Maqoma promises that his new production will be »an adventure (...), that transcends time and space« with eight virtuoso dancers accompanied live by the polyphony of an eight-strong a cappella choir.