African culture is rich in performance ritual.   There is ethnic dance that comes with cultural costume, codes of conduct and meaning.  There are dance and performance traditions linked to jazz, hip hop, kwaito—traditional music genres practiced and upheld by black folk, not only in Africa but in the west as well.  The virulence of apartheid…

The years of apartheid brought not only legislated racism to South Africa, it also excluded people—particularly creative people—from access to the currents that were motivating and feeding the rest of the creative world. Feminism, Post-Modernism, Happenings, Performance Art were all strategies for art making that came to dynamic and active life between the 1950s and…