Date: 06 – 07 December
Venue: Loft Theatre

Umnikelo (Offering) a 40 minutes work created in 2011. Umnikelo was premiered in Johannesburg 2011 and mid 2012 at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown as part of the doublebill Mayhem by Maqoma and Sidiya. In June 2013 Umnikelo appeared at Kuopio Dance Festival in Finland. Umnikelo is a broad word and in this context, synonymously an offering is also regarded as the act of being submissive by will towards a deity form or a force beyond physical comprehension. Emphatically, we offer ourselves to our God (s) in submission. The ancients would deliberately create organized chaos in order to reflect the internal chaos of the mind. As interesting as it may sound, this was a manner of expression, communicating their fear and or asking if not praising the higher being. Spiritually subdued, this was considered as another form of offering in which dance and music would be reiterated so to express means of surrendering oneself to the deity form, which they worshiped. This was believed to create a sphere, a sphere where one would be immensely in the spirit.