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Life/death/life: Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro includes members of the Vuyani Dance Company and is choreographed by Gregory Maqoma, for whom the repetition in Boléro invokes a sense of a procession . (Delwyn Verasamy & John Hogg)
CION

A requiem for the world’s dead

Gregory Maqoma revives a Zakes Mda character, mixing Ravel’s Boléro with isicathamiya to mourn, to hope, and to celebrate life

  • Kwanele Sosibo
6 min read