Season 11 unveiled: a celebration of creative collaboration

JOHANNESBURG’S The Centre for the Less Good Idea is set to host Season 11, a five-day festival of visual art, dance, theatre, site-specific installations, popup performances and talks from November 26-30.

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ARTIST and activist Mallika Taneja from New Delhi will bring her solo performance 'Be Careful' to Season 11. I Simone Voggenreiter

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Curated by the centre's impresario Neo Muyanga and supported by the core team, Season 11 features works made by and in collaboration with Johannesburg’s artists, theatremakers, musicians, writers, filmmakers and thinkers, alongside a selection of invited international artists.

“The Centre for the Less Good Idea is invested in giving the idea the benefit of the doubt,” says Muyanga.

“We are all in the room when the idea is explored and we give input from our own vantage point as practitioners and audience members alike. We pull on those threads and ways of seeing together to make the idea come to life. It’s a core practice at The Centre.”

Co-founder and director Bronwyn Lace adds that Season 11 reflects two years of provocations and experimentation.

“The deeply integrated and interconnected results of these forms are evidence both of Muyanga’s extraordinary capacity for deep listening and play, as well as The Centre’s capacity as a collective to develop context-specific, collaborative and cross-disciplinary new work,” she says.