Arts Review

Written by: Tiisetso Tlelima

Catch Natalie Fisher’s contemporary dance production, Pieces Of A Dream, tonight at the Green Point Visitors Centre at 7:30. Natalie Fisher first created Pieces of A Dream on Ballet Theatre Afrikan. The show represents fragmented dreams which when presented together become pieces of a dream that are at times illogical, then elaborate and most elusive. The work draws the audience into the dancers’ reverie through a fusion of innovative cheorography and mood elements enhanced by Galina Juritz’s infectious violin. “There is no particular message portrayed by the show, it’s for the audience to feel the emotions and images that the dancers portray,” explains Natalie. “The audience will be entertained when they relax, open their minds and be transported on a journey through their imagination of beautiful images.”

Pieces Of A Dream is not her first work. Her first theatre piece was Moonbeat by LTJ Experience followed by Pas de deux is Clarens Clemons Peacemaker and the last show she worked on was Finn Martin off the album Ecclectic. She has been in the arts industry since she was 3-years-old when she started her first ballet lessons. “I have been blessed to be able to live my dreams right through my life as a dancer, an artist, choreographer and director,” she says. She has danced for the Freeflight Dance Company as the lead dancer for 14 years and her talent has allowed her to travel and perform in many parts of Europe, USA, Africa and the Indian Ocean islands. Recently she just shot the new Vodacom commercial “All The Single Ladies” assisting Adele Blank and she’s working with Brett Bailey on the choreography of “House of the Holy Afro”.

She draws her inspiration from Africa’s diverse cultures and its people. “I am very influenced by the diverse cultures of our African continent which seemed to fuse with my classical and contemporary training whilst I was choreographing Pieces Of A Dream,” says Natalie. “I would put the music on before going to sleep, allowing the different scenes and images to drift through my conscience and subconscious mind….dreaming… the use of the wall, the sticks, the tensions between spirits of the forests, the sensual pas de deux and the rituals involved are all pieces of the dream.”

Pieces Of A Dream runs at the Green Point Visitors Centre in Cape Town from 16 July to 18 July at 7:30pm and will have a re-run in Port Elizabeth next week.

Tickets cost R75 at the door or via 021 697 5509.