Cape-town   South Africa december 2011

 Puppetry Development Project  '' The people they say ''

 Master-class  with Saskia Janse and Onny Huisink Tau Qwelane and Macebo Mavuso  and performances                                                                                                                                  

                                  

 

Laway Arts is a platform in which Macebo Mavuso from South Africa and  Toke van Oorsouw from the Netherlands realise theatre projects in South Africa and  the Netherlands for almost ten years. 

The name Laway Arts  is a combination of  Xhosa and English and means  flexibility -my way, your way, this way and that way. The theatre projects are based on the vision that art is a powerfull media to build bridges between people and countries.Community-projects bring theatre to the people in the rural aera's and they tell their own stories in front of a local audience.In co-productions the focus is on training and  skills-development for young artists and capacity building. The work has been funded by NCDO, Prince Claus Fund, HIVOS, NOVIB, Dutch Embassy in South Africa, National Arts Council  South Africa. Provincie Groningen and Gemeente Eemsmond.

'' Arts and culture are viewed as luxuries in developing worlds and in actuel sense  development fails because basis human factors such as faith and belief that form part of the culture are ignored"

Macebo Mavuso played a part in "The Bells of Amersfoort " from the hand of Zakes Mda, being a co-production of the South African Sibikwa players and the Theatre-group De Nieuw Amsterdam.Mavuso was on stage with Pieter Dirk Uys in the play "Truth Omissions".He did work in the Netherlands several years in the co-production Red Earth with Speeltheater Holland.

He performed in Musicals ( " Milestones" ," African Dreaming"," Rain Queen" and " Baobab Tree") and in various other productions  (" Macbeth" and "Julius Caesar" ).Apart from that he has worked from 1991 as an actor for film and television and was a number of years an active puppet player and voice-over artist for Sesamstreet. He did  co-direct " A drop in the Land '' Swaziland  2010. Acting in Winnie, with Jennifer Hudson  as Winnie. Acting in African calling (  a german movie). Roof , tv. township stories project  Soweto.

Toke van Oorsouw, drama teacher and director . IVKO school Amsterdam, Jeugdtheaterschool Haarlem. Theatre-school Utrecht, acting-methods and supervison.Hogeschool Leeuwarden technicon for theatre, drama-history CKV and Arts.Hanze Hogeschool Groningen  presentation-skills and methods.

Acting in training and industrial theatre.Artistic leader Paradox 15 years. Making plays in a professional setting with youngsters from different cultural backgrounds and  refugee kids. Theatergroup DNA Amsterdam, education-programmes.2002 Grant from the department of Arts and Culture the Netherlands for research in South Africa drama, education, community-arts.

Director One Hander in South Africa.Productionleader co-production Speeltheater-Holland Rode Aarde.Drama-specialist community-arts project in the Eastern Cape Amabali Ethu.

Artistic leader Laway Arts project INDABA in the Theaterwerkplaats te Kantens Groningen, with video and foto-material from South Africa.

.2010 Projectmanagment A drop in the Land, co-production  Laway-Arts- Iphi Africa.

Swaziland. 2011 Artistic leader / director Hondenveld  Groningen.