The 2020 Virtual National Arts Festival reached its conclusion with the announcement of the winners of this year's Standard Bank Ovation Awards.
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
Rucera Seethal 15 Apr 2020 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 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
