Virtual National Arts Fest announces 2020 Standard Bank Ovation Award winners

Livestreamed to Facebook, the Standard 2020 Ovation Awards ceremony was attended by fans and followers of the arts as the 45 winners of the Standard Bank Ovation award were honoured and overall winners of the Bronze, Silver and Gold were announced. In celebration of the winners, 2020 Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz Sisonke Xonti and 2013 Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz Shane Cooper performed during the show.

A panel of adjudicators spent countless hours reviewing work to find those productions that fully embraced performance for digital audiences and told stories that resonated with our current times and hopes for the future. They awarded 45 productions with the Standard Bank Ovation recognition, a badge that is placed on the show page as a marker to audiences, but ten shows, in particular, stood out and were awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze awards as follows

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The Standard Bank Ovation winners for 2020: 

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Domination
Is'thatha Dance Project

The Art of experimental acapella - Then, Now and Always
Signature Sound A Capella

girl.
Namisa Mdlalose

Nowhere People
Kinsmen

Next!
Wela Kapela Productions

Jazz in the Theatre featuring: Chadleigh Gowar
44 On Long (Pty)

Ouma Lilly & Haar Klong
Vulture Productions

Bonjour Monsieur Brel
Jannie du Toit

Butlers and Billionaires: Till death do us part
Slick 'n Sleeve

Diamonds and Strings
Andrew Young

For Rhino in Tandem with Roddy Fox and Harry Owen
Roddy Fox and Harry Owen

Fragmented Scribbles
Smangaliso Ngwenya

From Makhanda to Kofifi
Major Duo

Jazz in the Theatre featuring: Muneeb Hermans
44 On Long (Pty) Ltd

A Star is Born The rise and fall of Judy Garland
Wela Kapela Productions

Certain Songs for Uncertain Times
Ariel and Juana

Garry's Retreat
VR Theatrical

Hatchetman: (R)Evolution
Hatchetman

I Am Because You Are
A collaboration with visual artist Sonya Rademeyer and baroque singer Chloe Lam (Hong Kong)

Inyange Speaks
Simbone Inyange

Journey Beyond
Zip Zap Circus in collaboration with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra

The Joy of Classical Music
KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra

Mnquma
Xolisile Bongwana

Amagents
Amagents in partnership with the Gauteng Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation

Corps/Body
Itrotra Art X Connection

I Grandi Tenori in Concert
I Grandi Tenori

Jakob
Theatresmiths

Jon Shaban Live
Jon Shaban

Magic of Lata Mangeshkar Part One
Shashika Mooruth

Once Upon A Circus
Zip Zap Circus

Quantitative Teasing
MVG Productions

Resillience
Llewellyn Mnguni Productions

Sade in Hollandse Kombuise
Siphumeze Khundayi snd Christine van Hees

Sanan
Ghasedak Art Group

Sondela
Thesis ZA

The Ballad Of Lucy and Alexander
Lipsmac Productions

The Hymns Of A Sparrow
Magentapro

The King of Broken Things
Theatresmiths

The Tower and The Tree
Mixed Media

Veranda Panda - Panda Perspectives
Veranda Panda

What Falling Feels Like.
Nicola Pilkington, Joe Young and Jade Delmage

Women Hold Up The Sky
Womin African Alliance

Zoom Room
VR Theatrical

The Beast in Him
Masifunde’s Academy Of Creativity

National Arts Fest to use vFringe Fest online platform as ongoing digital stage for artists

30 Jul 2020

National Arts Festival’s Fringe manager, Zikhona Monaheng, closed the event by reminding both artists and audiences that the National Arts Festival would continue to host the vFringe as a legacy of the vNAF2020, creating an ongoing digital home for the arts. She said that artists from all disciplines would be able to use the space without paying registration fees and would take home 90% of their ticket sales. The importance of artists marketing their own work was stressed as a critical way to encourage audiences to browse and view shows. The platform will remain in place as long as the Festival can facilitate it and for as long as there is a need for an online space for artists to present work to audiences online.

Artists wishing to submit work can visit nationalartsfestival.co.za

Audiences wanting to go and watch shows on-demand, can visit nationalartsfestival.co.za