Jazzart Dance Theatre

51-year-old Jazzart Dance Theatre is acknowledged as South Africa’s oldest contemporary dance theatre company that has, and continues, to exert a powerful influence on the development of dance in South Africa.

The Jazzart methodology ensures that strong technique is matched with a uniquely South African dance philosophy that is rooted in the diversity of the culture and traditions of our country. Its prodigious creative and critical output allows it to use dance as a transformative tool and to fully interrogate social awareness and cultural inclusiveness – thus embodying the transformative principles and values of South Africa’s Bill of Rights.

Jazzart is based at The Artscape Theatre Centre in Cape Town and conducts its fulltime training programme in Cape Town while running its outreach and production touring ventures throughout the province, across the country and internationally.