Jazzart Dance

Jazzart Dance We are Jazzart - the oldest African contemporary dance company in South Africa. Jazzart is the oldest contemporary dance company in the Cape, if not Africa.

It has been at the forefront of contemporary dance development administratively and artistically, within the context of democratic practice, serving marginalised communities in particular. Jazzart’s creative process is an embodiment of a movement language based on improvisation and provides inventive platforms for world class performances that reflect the ever-changing socio-political environment of South Africa and the world.

WE ARE HIRINGWe are looking for a Marketing & Communications Manager and a Digital Content & Social Media Specialist to ...
08/04/2026

WE ARE HIRING

We are looking for a Marketing & Communications Manager and a Digital Content & Social Media Specialist to join our team.

📩 Apply: [email protected]
🔗 Full role details: www.jazzart.co.za/opportunities
⏰ Deadline: 21 April 2026

23/03/2026

New week. New energy. 🔥
Release Contemporary with Llewellyn Mnguni in full flow !

Like what you see? Join us this Thursday:
📅 26 March 2026
⏰ 09:00–10:30
📍 Jazzart Studio, RR551, Artscape

We’re inviting dancers into the space. 🔶Jazzart Dance Theatre is looking for experienced contemporary dancers to join ou...
20/03/2026

We’re inviting dancers into the space. 🔶

Jazzart Dance Theatre is looking for experienced contemporary dancers to join our professional company.

We’re interested in artists who are committed to their practice, open to collaboration, and curious about the process of making and performing work together.

📍 Artscape, Studio RR551
📅 30 March 2026
⏰ 9am – 4pm

A minimum of 3 years of professional contemporary dance experience is required.

Booking is essential.
Send your CV to [email protected]

We look forward to meeting you in the studio.

Thank you to our panel — Lisa Wilson (Facilitator), Ciara Baldwin, Lorin Sookool and Caroline Calburn for contributing t...
20/03/2026

Thank you to our panel — Lisa Wilson (Facilitator), Ciara Baldwin, Lorin Sookool and Caroline Calburn for contributing to the Meraki Dance Festival Dialogue Session on 7 March 2026.

What Are We Actually Building?
A candid conversation reflecting on what it means to sustain dance careers in Cape Town and what needs to shift for the sector to meaningfully grow and thrive in the years ahead.



Thank you ❤️To the companies and artists who shared their work.To the technicians and production team who held the space...
20/03/2026

Thank you ❤️
To the companies and artists who shared their work.
To the technicians and production team who held the space.
To the partners and supporters who believed in the vision.
And to the audiences who came into the room with curiosity, openness, and care.

Zip Zap Circus
SboNdaba Dance
Figure Of 8 Dance Theatre
Manacan
Cape Ballet Africa
Dance for All South Africa



BasicBlack Crew
Ashlynn Ash Erasmus

Roots Theatre Project
Waterfront Theatre School
Eoan Group
Unmute Dance Companygenesis.company


06/03/2026

Thank you, Cape Town dance community, for showing up for the official opening of the Meraki Dance Festival.

Selected Works from last week’s Emerging Choreographers Platform shared the stage with established companies — exactly the ecosystem Meraki exists to build, and a glimpse of the future of dance.

Now we enter the final week of the festival.

If you haven’t joined us yet, this is your moment.

All our performances have 6+ short dance works.
A chance to experience multiple choreographers and companies in a single night.

🎟 Tickets R180
🎟 Groups of 5+ R100 per ticket

Bring a friend. Bring five.





Music by Manacan
Videography by Emile Petersen & Levi Fillies

05/03/2026

UNMUTE - UNMUTE DANCE THEATRE

Being heard changes how you move through the world and In this piece Unmute Dance Theatre unpacks what it means to unmute.

Choreography by Mpotseng Shuping

📍: Artscape Theatre Centre
📆: 26 February - 7 March 2026
🎫: R80 - R180 via Webticket

Link: https://www.jazzart.co.za/meraki

03/03/2026

INTERSECT - Waterfront Theatre School

Watch for what happens when bodies meet — and when they don’t.

Choreography by James Bradley

📍: Artscape Theatre Centre
📆: 26 February - 7 March 2026
🎫: R80 - R180 via Webticket

Link: https://www.jazzart.co.za/meraki

Last week we shared week 1 highlights. This week, we share the moments.Thank you to Mark Wessels for these stunning pho...
03/03/2026

Last week we shared week 1 highlights. This week, we share the moments.

Thank you to Mark Wessels for these stunning photographs offering a closer look at Week 1 of Meraki Dance Festival 2026 — a celebration of emerging voices and embodied storytelling.

Week 2 continues. Join us.

Artscape Theatre Centre
Tickets via Webtickets



Artscape Theatre Centre
Tickets via Webtickets

✨Join us for a Sip & Stretch Session ✨Join Alice Maybin for our Sip & Stretch Hour. A gentle, relaxed stretch session d...
02/03/2026

✨Join us for a Sip & Stretch Session ✨

Join Alice Maybin for our Sip & Stretch Hour. A gentle, relaxed stretch session designed to release tension, improve flexibility, and calm your mind. The perfect way to unwind, lengthen, and reset… with something lovely to sip on 🥂

Alice is a certified STOTT Pilates instructor (Matwork, Reformer & Barre from beginner to advanced), with additional prenatal training. By day, you’ll find her at The Movement Lab helping clients build strong cores and long, lean lines and at a Bellville law firm rescuing people from desk-job posture and “sitting all day” syndrome.

She’s also a freelance dancer with a BMus in Dance from University of Cape Town, a contemporary teacher trained under AIDT, and runs the contemporary dance department at Reddam House where she inspires the next generation to leap a little higher and stretch a little further.

Movement, musicality, and good vibes are kind of her thing 💫

Come stretch, sip, and leave feeling lighter than you arrived.





28/02/2026

Week 1 — what a highlight!💃✨

Thank you to everyone who showed up, supported, watched, and witnessed. You remind us that Meraki is not just a festival — it’s a living ecosystem.

Premieres.
Collaborations.
Risk.
New futures in motion.

A reminder that there are no public performances today as we host the Jazzart Graduation.

An exciting line-up awaits in Week 2.
Book your tickets because we can’t wait to welcome you to the Meraki Dance Festival.

Link: https://www.jazzart.co.za/meraki

Footage captured by Emile Petersen

25/02/2026

EOAN Group’s Group Areas Act 1950 sits inside South Africa’s ongoing conversation about memory, land and belonging.

Catch The EOAN Group at the Meraki Dance Festival

📍: Artscape Theatre Centre
📆: 26 February - 7 March 2026
🎫: R80 - R180 via Webticket
Link: https://www.jazzart.co.za/meraki

Address

Artscape, 1 DF Malan Street, Foreshore
Cape Town
8001

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 16:30
Tuesday 09:00 - 16:30
Wednesday 09:00 - 16:30
Thursday 09:00 - 16:30
Friday 09:00 - 16:30

Telephone

+27214109848

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