Flatfoot dancers hotfoot to Holland

Adriaan Luteijn, director of Introdans Interactive first came to Durban in 2008 as a special guest of the Jomba! festival. His work in dance education and dance development for Introdans has resulted in him winning major international awards and he was invited to Jomba! to be part of a workshops series of dialogues about "growing dance and dancers". He was so taken with the dance-development work that Flatfoot Dance Company were doing that he began communicating with Lliane Loots (artistic director of Flatfoot) about a further two-year programme, which would see his team of educators and dancers travel to Durban to work alongside Flatfoot in their eight development programmes in and around Durban.

In August 2009, both Flatfoot and the Introdans team spent 12 days exchanging ideas and working/teaching methods, which culminated in a youth dance concert in Cato Manor.

Swing on South

Now, in 2010, Flatfoot completes the exchange by travelling to Arnhem to run workshops, seminars and classes in the various communities in South Arnhem. In a specially designed festival called "Swing on South", Flatfoot will work alongside the Introdans educators and dancers to create a big gala concert that brings together various migrant and local communities in a celebration of community dance.

Flatfoot will also perform a separate evening of their own performance work at the Gruitpoort Theatre in Arnhem. They will be taking a mixed programme of work that includes one of their signature works "Circle", created for the company in early 2010, by Sifiso E. Kweyama.