On 17 September, a group of excited UCT School of Dance students welcomed members of the prestigious Alvin Ailey Dance Academy to their studios on Lower Campus. The visit formed part of a series of international dance Master Classes, initiated by lecturer and interim Head of Department, Lisa Wilson.
History not only tells us where we come from, it also contains valuable lessons. Thus, the process of preserving history through the archive is vitally important. Recognising this, UCT recently launched Humanitec, which saw the digitisation of more than 14 000 objects from the 14 archival collections housed at UCT Libraries. Here is a snapshot of what is available through Humanitec, and in some of these collections.
The 2015 Baxter Dance Festival kicks off with the internationally-acclaimed Nuwe Graskoue Trappers and showcases 74 works on the programme this October.