For her latest work, Ai, contemporary dancer Jackï Job will perform a dance routine with a horse, in the garden of Rosebank’s Irma Stern Museum.
This new work is described as a “butoh ballet”. Butoh is a form of Japanese dance theatre.
Ai, means “love” in Japanese, and the piece is about the impossibility of love and finding it in unusual spaces.
Job performs with French ballet dancer Alexandre Bourdat to music by classical pianist José Dias.
Ai includes an unusual pas de deux between Job and a horse called Beauty.
Job has been nominated for a Naledi award and received the UCT Meritorious Award for her innovation and creativity in her ongoing dance series, And Then…
The Irma Stern Museum is at 21 Cecil Road, and Ai is on from Friday March 17 to Tuesday March 21, from 7pm. Tickets are R250 and available through Quicket.
