This time last year we welcomed University of Surrey placement student Adina Dumitrascu to the Tavaziva office. Adina worked with Tavaziva for 8 months as Administrative and Studio Assistant, supporting our touring, production, marketing, administration and educational programmes. Adina tells us about her experience and what she’s learnt from her time with the company in […]
Tavaziva is seeking a part-time Company Manager (maternity cover, 3 days a week) starting November 2020 Tavaziva is an acclaimed company touring work by its founder and artistic director, Zimbabwean-born Bawren Tavaziva. The unique style synthesises African, ballet and contemporary dance producing dynamic, risk-taking, beautiful work. Working in a small and busy team, the Company […]
Thank you to everyone that has made our #DiscoverTavaziva series such a success so far. We have shared three brilliant TavTorials with you – Bawren Tavaziva’s unique online African-contemporary dance classes, keeping you fit, focused and motivated through this uncertain time. We’ve produced seven extracts of work from Bawren’s impressive archive of politically-charged and energetic works, performed by […]
Out now, the next instalment of our #DiscoverTavaziva series is My Friend Robert. This work draws on Bawren’s personal experiences and memories of growing up in the newly independent Zimbabwe, under leadership of adored Robert Mugabe. However, his visionary and promising beginning, including reconciliation and improvements to education and health care, rapidly declined into megalomania, […]
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Out Now! Our third TavTorial online class led by Artistic Director Bawren Tavaziva. Join in with an African and contemporary fusion class, improve your technique and increase your stamina. Get moving and experience Bawren’s unique synthesises of Ballet, Contemporary and African dance. We hope the classes keep dancers focused and motivated. TavTorials and the rest […]
We want to see you dancing! Take the TavChallenge to learn Bawren Tavaziva’s choreography, with a new piece in tribute of Steve Biko and his impact on Black freedom in the 1960s and 70s, set to a new track by composer Eugene Skeef. Everything you need including a video of the choreography and music can […]
Bawren Tavaziva has collaborated with composer Eugene Skeef, who was a friend of Steve Biko a South African anti-apartheid activist at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 70s. Bawren and Eugene wanted to take this opportunity to remember the people who fought for Black people’s freedom, particularly in light of […]
Our #DiscoverTavaziva series has got off to a tremendous start with lots of you tuning in for TavTorials with Bawren, extracts of work from over the years that include a unique commentary by Bawren about how he was inspired to create, plus behind the scenes footage from photographer and film maker Alfred George Bailey. Our third TavTorial, […]
On now, the next instalment of our #DiscoverTavaziva series is Double Take. There are two sides to every story… Through adversity, there comes triumph. Through pain, there comes love. After a storm, comes calm. Double Take, created in 2010, is an intensely courageous work that surveys the impact of black dance and Bawren Tavaziva’s contribution to […]
Out Now! Our second TavTorial online class led by Artistic Director Bawren Tavaziva. Join in with an African dance class, improve your technique and increase your stamina. Each week until 2 June you can take part, get moving and experience Bawren’s unique synthesises of Ballet, Contemporary and African dance. Next week tune in for a […]