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Previous Performances & Educational Workshops
All company works choreographed by Gladys Agulhas
2000
- FNB Vita Dance Umbrella
"Strings" choreographed by Gladys Agulhas - FNB Vita Dance Umdudo Grahamstown
"Strings" choreographed by Gladys Agulhas - Arts Alive International Dance Festival -Dance Factory
"Strings" choreographed by Gladys Agulhas
- FNB Vita Dance Umbrella
Young Choreographic Award Grant -Solo
"Meeting on the Edge" Gladys Agulhas - UCT Confluences Conference 3 -Cape Town
Perform and Presented on Integrated Dance & Choreography - Human Rights Office Johannesburg
Presentation and Facilitating Integrated Workshops - South African Women's Arts Festival -Durban
Premiered a duet "A Card" choreographed by Gladys Agulhas - ATW -first Season at Dance Factory and Outreach Programme various Schools
Premier "Beyond the Physical Oddity" choreography Gladys Agulhas
- Nominee for the DaimlerChrysler Choreographic Award 2003-09-05
- Hospice -Charity Performances at Kyalami Theatre on the track
- Racism Conference "Celebrate diversity through the Arts"- Human Rights Office
"Beyond the Physical Oddity" choreography Gladys Agulhas - FNB Vita Jomba! -commissioned Agulhas new work "giveortake `n word or 2" for the Jomba International Arts Festival Durban
- ATW - performed at various disability conferences during the November & December season in Gauteng.
- FNB Vita Dance Umbrella-International collaboration)
Gladys Agulhas (SA) & Louise Katerega (UK), premier at the festival - FNB Vita Dance Umbrella
Guest speaker for the Open Day, Wits Theatre,
Facilitator integrated workshops for the residency programme - FNB Vita Dance Umbrella-ATW performed ""Beyond the Physical Oddity"
- daC Disability Conference 2003- ATW performed ""Beyond the Physical Oddity",
- And Facilitated integrated workshops during the conference
- ATW-performed on the main programme at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival
- Women's Arts Festival -Collaboration with Louis Mhlanga -"Safe Harbour"
- 20 September 2003 -
Charity Performance for Hospice People with Terminal illness - 27 September 2003 -
Charity Performance for "We are Capable" Newspaper Launch - 1-5 October 2003
Macufe Arts Festival - 25 October 2003-
ATW -Business Presentation
THE STAR TONIGHT: 29/02/2000
"The big news of Dance Umbrella 2000, so far, is that women are making a major stand as choreographers and assertive creative dancers. This trend was strongly evident on Programme 2 with Strings (a work in progress) by Gladys Agulhas, both major additions to the South African repertory."
By Adrienne Sichel
THE CITIZEN: 01 /03 /2000
"It was Gladys Agulhas` exploration of Strings which bind, suffocate, manipulate and create musical harmony that thankfully sustained interest. She, Portia, Caroline, Zwelethu created resonance between them like an animated cat's cradle, and it's a work in progress which could turn out to have real substance."
BY Marilyn Jenkins
Mail & Guardian: 03 / 03/ 2000
"Now it seems as if the black women are starting to find their feet as makers of contemporary dance. Agulhas is aware that crafting skills is part of making dance works. She successfully uses form and content in a holistic way to underpin her work, a subtle, visually textured dance, which shows choreographic development for Agulhas. Strings were funded by the National Arts Council."
BY Jill Waterman
THE STAR TONIGHT: 07 / 03 / 2000
"Paradoxically, so far this year there has been an emergence of choreograph-performers who not only prove to have developed a process, but create, or present, personalized work with intellectual or even philosophical thrusts. To name some names: Gladys Agulhas, etc."
BY Adrienne Sichel
THE STAR TONIGHT: 22 / 03 / 2000
"The winners of the 1999 FNB Vita Contemporary and Dance Awards, presented on Saturday night, represented pioneers and current young movers and shakers. Gladys Agulhas and the late Wendy David were singled out, for another special award, for their creative collaborative work as well as their teaching and choreographic development input to community -based groups. Agulhas also received a Special Stepping Stones Award for her commitment to the Kliptown Arts Foundation. This dancer, teacher and choreographer was also named, as a recipient of an FNB Vita Young Choreographic Grant. The commissioned works will premiere at the 2001 Umbrella."
BY Adrienne Sichel
Dance Umbrella 25/03/ 2001
Sunday World
"Agulhas brings a touch of multimedia into her work "Meetings on the Edge." Through this visually spectacular work, whose videography was supplied by Aja, Agulhas expresses her view about the labels that are placed on women and methods to overcome them. It deals with the states of women in this country in which they are faced with the evils of rape, crime and violence.
by Vuyo Mntuyedwa
Star Tonight
Gladys Agulhas` Meetings on the Edge was in effect collaboration with video -maker Aja Marneweck. Her struggle for equilibrium, through detailed minimalist or sweeping movement, is textured by Declan Randall's lighting, which integrates the fragmented levels of reality.
by Adrienne Sichel
Agulhas Theatre Works first season November 2001
Sunday World: 04/ 11/ 2001
"Gifted Dancers Show Disability is only a mental obstacle",
Writes Vuyo Mntuyedwa
The STAR: 09/11 / 2001
"This PIECE IS ABOUT CONQUERING",
This season, with funding from the National Arts Council, isn't about compromise.
It is about personal growth and AESTHETIC.
BY Adrienne Sichel
Artslink. Breaking News 3/10 / 2001
Agulhas Theatre Works present new season.
Billed as "Beyond the Physical Oddity
SUNDAY AFFAIR 11/ 11 / 2001
"My experience was aware of a man with a disability, but 5 minutes into the work all I could see was his ability. I feel tremendous admiration for what you were doing".
By Barry Ronge
Radio 702
SUNDAY TIMES METRO 23/02/ 2003
In Between Our Worlds, Prt 1: Physical Address Gladys Agulhas joins Louise Katerega in an exploration of their joint heritage as women of colour raised on two different continents.
Apart from the similarities, rituals of family there is another connection: the artistry, the humour, the technical acumen and the choreographic invention which these two exceptional artists share.
By Adrienne Sichel
BUSINESS DAY:23/05/ 2003
DANCER HAS RUGBY REFS ON THEIR TOES
The arts present more opportunity than most people imagine, says Nicola Danby, Ceo of BASA. Recognising this, the Golden LIONS Rugby Referees Society approach dancer and choreographer Gladys Agulhas to run a communications course. Gabriel Pappas, manager: referees of the Golden LIONS Rugby Union, says: Agulhas choreographic skills were used to help the refs communicate more effectively.
By Lara de Matos
Press from Grahamstown: 04/07/ 2003
"Dancers in giveortake `n word or 2 explore their life experiences through the language of contemporary dance. The piece, which was nominated for the DaimlerChrysler award last year, is a unique artistic dance piece that incorporates artistic skills with physical disabilities"
Cue Reporter -Haru Mutasa