Via Katlehong In good condition – Editing

Portuguese choreographer Marco da Silva Ferreira signs with South African dance troupe Form Informs, an upscale show far from cliché.

There are always the dangers of a Johannesburg tourist brochure. The trap is alluring to many artists of different nationalities who were once invited to choreograph the choreography of the vociferous and historical troupe of South African street dancers Via Cattlehong. The energy, the humour, the formidable technique of footwork and the game of masks, but also the social and political history that characterizes “bantsula” – a type of local home dance born in Cattlehong – often gives the desire that foreign choreographers surround it all on stage by adding a couple of questions or Three slightly educative questions from the Okapi: Who are these amazing performers? How do they live? Where does this crazy body come from as tap dances intertwine with samba and choppy tribal dances? At worst, it makes for a fun, exhilarating, and instructive scene but we wouldn’t quite call it an action. Instead, while we therefore wait to stay on the floor of the ‘Joburg’, the young Portuguese choreographer Marco da Silva Ferreira leads us into another galaxy, so large and asymmetrical, that we hear ‘ooh’ and ‘ah’ in the stands from the Avignon Festival Where you can see the mustaches of Edwi Plenil wiggling with pleasure.

Before us, the South African dancers’ bodies swell and deflate like Roger Rabbit’s drawings. …