Day two of HIFA 2012 kicked off warm and clear with lots of action, music and drama. Today I did not take in any dance although the Gri Eshe! ensemble was billed under the dance section there was not much of it.
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- Kingswood College Band.
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- Kingswood College Band from Grahamstown South Africa. A very talented group of youngsters played all sorts of band music; jazz, Michael Jackson, Mango Groove, Grease and much more. Here they applaud on of the older members of the audience who decied to get up and dance a little!
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- Gri Eshe! Nope, I have no idea how that is pronounced either!
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- Gri Eshe! This 33 strong ensemble from Bulawayo sang and danced as only the Matabele can. They mostly sang a capella and the harmonizing was georgeous.
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- The Dogs Must be Crazy. The Jacob Zuma dog does his thing. The shower head was lost on the foreigners!
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- The Dogs Must be Crazy. Hanging around looking for work.
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- The Dogs Must be Crazy. Here they are just being dogs.
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- The Dogs must be Crazy. A satirical history of South Africa through the eyes and experiences of a pack of dogs! The animated dog-thing represents the country. I think!
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- Cape based guitarist, Derek Gripper.
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- Derek Gripper is a South Afrcian guitarist of extraordinary talent. He played a lot of Malian music as well as Indian adaptations and Brasilian guitar. Very cool!
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- Third Person:(Bonnie and Clyde redux). I think this what is called “art theartre”. It was certainly understandable but the presentation was well, different. Two actors imagine the life of Bonnie and Clyde but give a lecture almost. Except sometimes they just seem to chat amongst themselves. And sometimes they WERE Bonnie & Clyde, or just Clyde.Odd but arty!
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- The Third Person: Bonnie & Clyde redux. Overhead projectors and video cameras were used in the play. Performed by Manchester based Proto-type Theatre.
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Haha.. looks like you had great time there.. Dogs must be Crazy is popular indeed! Have fun 🙂
I thought the Dogs Must be Crazy (the name is a pun on The Gods Must be Crazy which was a famous South African movie years ago) went on a bit long. I don’t know if it was stretched to make the hour requirement for HIFA but I thought it would have been really good as a shorter, more intense satire. I got in the bus with some Americans and they admitted that it was mostly lost on them; you had to be up with S.African politics.