THEATRE REVIEW: The less good idea of taking epics from hours to minutes
Season 5 of an artistic exercise on show at Maboneng Precinct repositions the relationship between art and technology
Dance practitioner David April describes the Centre for the Less Good Idea as a therapeutic, communal, spiritual and necessary space. He calls it an artist’s dream as he thanks founder William Kentridge and animateur Bronwyn Lace for it. The Centre is an incubator space for the arts in Maboneng Precinct that fosters experimentation, interdisciplinary collaboration and values the importance of process. It encourages failure and the cultivation of secondary ideas. Much of the success of the centre continues to be due to its probing — digging into the expansiveness of art and questioning art to find its impetus within humanity. There has been profundity in the imperfection of the shows presented there, and genius found in the revelations of others, which have all had a transformative effect. Previous seasons, for example, have tackled the deconstruction of sonic storytelling — stripping the soul of sound and stretching its performative boundaries. In 2018, theatremaker and academic...
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