For the third time in five years, Global DanceFest teams up with Tricklock to present international contemporary dance/theatre performances within Tricklock's Revolutions International Theatre Festival (Stephen Petronio & Jonzi D, Rev '04, Vincent Mantsoe & Sekou Sundiata, Rev '05) broadening both festivals' celebrations of new work by artists from around the U.S. and the world.
Premiered at Brussels' Africalia Dance Festival in March 2003, Ja'nee is a commentary on a prevalent social paradigm in a changing, contemporary society. Boyzie Cekwana choreographed this powerful and provocative work dealing with issues such as the male dominated society in Africa, HIV-AIDS and violence. The work is spoken and sung in Zulu with video installation and performed by Boyzie and seven other dancers. Rona is a Sotho word meaning "us." A butoh-inspired duo choreographed and performed by Boyzie Cekwana and Desire Davids, the piece is a celebration of South African spiritual identity.
About Boyzie Cekwana:
Soweto born choreographer-dancer Boyzie Cekwana started his company Floating Outfit Project in 1997, because of a need to break away from the strict forms of traditional African dance and the work of South African ballet companies. Trained as a dancer and quickly hailed as a Wunderkind of South African dance, Boyzie choreographed several works which his company successfully performed at Johannesburg's FNB VITA Dance Festival and across Europe at prestigious festivals and theaters, including London's Southbank Centre, Montpellier Danse 2000, Utrecht's Spring Dance and Vienna's Impuls Tanz, receiving First Prize for Rona at the Third Platform III of African Contemporary Dance in Madagascar in 1999. Boyzie's work is now also in the repertoire of international dance companies such as the Washington Ballet, commissioned by the Kennedy Center for its celebrated African Odyssey Festival.
Ja'nee 
