Performance
"This is the real thing: a head-over-heels incredulity that there exists in the universe so perfect an imperfection."
Independent People by Halldór Laxness
Photo: Justin Allart at Edge of Wrong Festival, October 2014
Bold and provocative work on the edge of the unknown, demanding a shift in standpoint and challenging what is describable.
Solo and collaborative theatrical works from multimedia events to avant garde productions.
Commissions are invited for Arts Festivals, conferences, Seminars, Product launches, Company events, Celebrations, Anniversaries, Awards ceremonies, Welcomes and Farewells.
PRODUCTIONS
Photo: Dex Goodman
2013-2014
What does the earth think it is?
Dance performance with film and sound.
Performed at Theatre Arts Admin Collective and Windhoek Woordfees.
Adrienne Sichel of Cape Argus:"...most significantly the strongest resonance was sparked by dance theatre and history itself as the performers (ranging from iconic Tossie van Tonder and John Nankin to the brightest of younger sparks) and performances generated ganglia reconnecting decades of performance making."
Award received:
Peter Hayes Award for The Most Visually Engaging performance in 2013.
Among the top five theatre productions in Cape Town by Cape Times Critic Tracey Saunders.
Available for festivals, indabas, conferences.
Available as commissioned work.
Photo: Ashley Walters
2012
Tabula Rasa
Performed dance and interview at the launch of book NOBONKE, She of all People. Interviewed by Performer and singer-songwriter Jacques Coetzee.
Performed at GIPCA Live Arts Festival 2012.
Available as dance and interview for the launch of literary works.
Photo: Nicola Visser
2011
The End
Performed in collaboration with videographer Joelle Chesselet and movement director Nicola Visser.
Conceived by kind permission on Bio-dynamic Farm Hoekiesdam, Wolseley.
Performed at GIPCA Hot Water Festival, Art and Climate Change.
Performed at GIPCA Live Arts Festival 2012.
Photo: Sean Wilson
2009
Infecting the City
Performed in Cape Town at Infecting the City Festival.
Work called Limbo: Comment on Xenophobia
Photo on position of Slave Tree.
Photo: Joelle Chesselet
Johann Myburg CUE: "With no visible effort, Van Tonder produces high pitched seagull-like sounds. It becomes immaterial whether they are human or animal or a form of plant life for that matter; they share a common soul."
2008
Intiem
Performed in collaboration with Jacques Coetzee, performer and singer songwriter.
Performed at Intimate Theatre, UCT Hiddingh Campus, Cape Town.
Commissioned by National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, 2008.
Photo: Storm Janse van Rensburg
2006
Poppe
Performed in collaboration with 20 fellow performers at Intimate Theatre during the Out The Box Festival.
"exaggerated expression in the state of emergency"
Photo: Wilhelm Hahn
2005
Mamakaluyolo
Performed as celebration of separation between son and mother in collaboration with Luyolo Sijake.
Directed by Caroline Calburn and Wilhelm Hahn.
Performed in Cape Town.
Music by Wim Mertens.
For more, see the Archive.