Threading a destiny (*slideshow*)

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Threads is a piece that integrates poetry, dance, and design with a performance space that is criss-crossed by strings and rope and images of weaving or threading. It speaks of the way we negotiate the real and the imagined, the past and the present. It deals with relationships and cultural and artistic identity.

Threads - Lebo Mashile's human tapestry

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Tumi Tladi
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Kgaugelo Motlafi
Threads is a piece that integrates poetry, dance, and design with a performance space that is criss-crossed by strings and rope and images of weaving or threading. It speaks of the way we negotiate the real and the imagined, the past and the present. It deals with relationships and cultural and artistic identity. It does this communicating across boundaries of class, culture, gender, and age group.

Weaving memories together (*video*)

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Despite the difference in their ages, there is a comfortable commonality between Lebo Mashile and Sylvia “Magogo” Glasser when they speak about their collaboration for Threads, a dance and poetry production opening tonight.

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