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Dancer Zinhle Nzama in the Flatfoot Dance Company's Bodies of Water this year. Nzama will team with Spanish dancer Lara Miso in Flood. Image: Val Adamson The JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience promises an explosion of world-class contemporary dance, bringing together dancers from South Africa, Spain, France, Réunion, Uganda, Ivory Coast, Germany and Luxembourg. Hosted by the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Centre for Creative Arts, the festival runs from August 26 August to September 7 in Durban. This year's festival theme is 'moving border/lands' as artists battle with and navigate the current socio- and geo-politics of border/lands. Curator and artist director, Dr Lliane Loots says, 'We have a series of artistic encounters that we feel question ideas of border crossings, and have invited dance works that ask us to re-look at borders (real and imagined) which we are either seeking to cross or to renegotiate. We want to honour dance makers who bring beauty, humour, pathos, and politics to our stages and hearts.' South African dance-maker Sbonakaliso Ndaba is this year's JOMBA! Legacy Artist, for her innovative choreographic work that spans over three decades. She will present In Search of Our Humanity, a new work that takes the audience on an emotional journey through South Africa's evolution. From the ancient, free-roaming Khoi and San ancestors, to the struggle for unity, it showcases the nation's growth and defiance. Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration -:- Loaded : 0% Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. 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Spanish and Ivory Coast dance-maker Oulouy presents his award-wining solo Black - a reflection on the violence and emancipation of Blackness in today's world. Black is narrated through street dance styles of the African continent and its diaspora in Spain, such as Coupé-Décalé, Ndomboló, Afrohouse and Krump. A partnership between JOMBA! and Valencia-based Taiat Dance Company has resulted in a collaboration with Durban dancer Zinhle Nzama, and Spanish dancer Lara Misó. Choreographers Meritxell Barberá and Inma García have created a work around the shared experience of two cities (Durban and Valencia) surviving floods called Flood. Soweto born Asanda Ruda presents a double-bill that speaks to her on-going artistic exploration of Afro-contemporary dance, and a deeply African sense of spiritual self-healing. Her programme includes her acclaimed solo Kemet (Black Lands), which earned her a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and embodies her pursuit of individuality and spiritual enlightenment through the transformative power of dance. JOMBA!'s partnership with the Market Theatre features Greg Homann and Sunnyboy Mandla Motau's collaboration Father & I, a warm and nuanced portrayal of South African fatherhood. Réunion dancer/choreographer Didier Boutian, whose roots are in hip-hop, presents his new solo Kanyar which offers a deep critical dive into a contemporary world of fanaticism and self-glorification, while Chinese German choreographer Hannah Ma returns to collaborate with Durban's Flatfoot Dance Company in a revision of an earlier work Ama – Once I was, then I wasn't. Rooted in ritual and myth, Ama interrogates the archetype of the Mother: as life-giver, as protector, and as boundary. The festival continues its screen dance competition platform Digital Open Horizons featuring two feature films Wondarland by Artist in Residence Matthieu Nieto and Ugandan Jospeh Tebandeke's Amazina Mbuyaga. It also includes talks with choreographers and dancers after some live performances at the Sneddon Theatre, the annual Forging Futures dialogue and a series of free workshops and masterclasses. For more information and to see the full programme go to: Tickets are R85 and R65 or R390 for a full festival pass to see everything. Booking via Webtickets.