Toro Tsoho

One of this year's Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS) funded projects, "Toro-Tshoho" was developed by arts practitioner and director of i’Trôtra Art X Connection, Moeketsi Koena in collaboration with visual artist and music painter Nico Phooko. Toro-Tsoho is a multidisciplinary performance that interrogates the spirituality and connectivity of the artists and their audiences with their ancestry; juxtaposing this with their earthly journeys as they walk and toil daily. This concept will be explored through a process of research and creation; first involving Koena and Phooko; and thereafter including young artists and performers, who will participate in master classes and workshops developed after the initial research phase. There will be a showcase presentation of the outcomes of the workshops; comprising of a dance performance with live visual arts painting, as well as a visual arts exhibition, hosted by the Free State Dance Theatre at Mmabana Cultural Centre, Free State.

Workshops at the Mmabana Cultural Centre in Thaba-Nchu will take place from 21 to 25 February, with a public presentation of the resulting performance on 26 February.