Ballroom Bliss Soweto

We have been working towards this project for more than two years. At a time when sustainability, community and participation are widely discussed, yet cultural and funding policies are constantly shifting and increasingly make sustainable ways of working difficult, our transcontinental collaboration as a collective faced numerous challenges – and none of our funding applications were successful. This makes it all the more meaningful that, through joint efforts and with the support of the export funding programme of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, we were ultimately able to realise Ballroom Bliss as a performance and community project in Soweto.

Together with Moeketsi Koena, Gaby Saranouffi, Thabiso Pule, Welcome Mlindzeleni Maphalala, Caroline Hlatshwayo, Lena Berger, our children Simon and Moritz, the wonderful team of I’Trotra ART X Connection NPC, and many helping hands from the Soweto community, something truly special came into being. We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to the Goethe-Institut…