Who is Sketch?
Mission | Vision | Aims |Mandate
Mission
To produce powerful theatre experiences that enrich, educate and heal. To foster an environment for creative and emerging theatre makers. To provide a platform that allows space for growth and imagination. To produce quality, intimate theatre and inspire not just local communities, but the global community.
Vision
Our vision is to produce directors, writers, designers, stage managers, actors and future producers with a safe environment, in order to enhance their creative abilities.
Aims
As a company we strive for excellence in producing authentic, educated and entertaining work for our clients. We encourage collaboration with other artist, both locally and internationally, in order to broaden the scope of our cliental.
Mandate
To produce and create well crafted, authentic South African performance work.
News & Updates
What’s Going On
Global Water Dances 2025 is Saturday 14 June and we are so excited to see you all around the world come dance together for impact and for change! 🎉
#GlobalWaterDances #GWD2025 #gwdcommunity #DanceForChange #DanceCommunity #DanceAroundTheWorld #Dance #SafeWaterForAll
June/14/2025
Venue: Snake park-Mayibuye Community Park
Time: 1pm
GWD 2025 Soweto, South Africa
Site Leader: Hannah van Tonder
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Join the Facebook link to watch live with us: https://www.facebook.com/share/152SBuxDrU8/
Every Drop Counts
On June 14, 2025, people in over 100 locations across six continents will come together through dance to honor, protect, and speak out for one of Earth’s most vital resources: water. From cities to remote villages, thousands will join in Global Water Dances, an international event where artists, scientists, youth, elders, and activists join forces to advocate for the human right of access to clean water.
At the heart of Global Water Dances is a deep understanding that both WATER and MOVEMENT are connecting forces in our world. Global Water Dances promotes unity and togetherness through movement, using the arts to transform awareness into action on the local and global scales. Every event shares a structure where dancers around the world perform the same movements to the same music, on the same day, near bodies of water, from ocean beaches to plaza fountains. This creates a unifying global experience that transcends language and sends a synchronized global message of urgency and hope.
“Our work is about connection,” says Artistic Director Vannia Ibarguen, “between body and planet, art and action, local and global., Dance helps us tell the story of water in ways people can feel—and remember.”
Now more than ever, we need artists to tell stories that move people into action. Global Water Dances mobilizes artists as leaders in the conversation about protecting water, empowering them as catalysts for change. Choreographers initiate collaborations with community groups, Indigenous leaders, scientists, youth, and environmental organizations to create impactful events that ripple far beyond the performance day - inspiring ongoing advocacy, education, and collaboration in the communities the events touch.
Since its launch in 2011, Global Water Dances has been organizing and promoting this event every two years; events are free and open to the public. Events are also recorded and live-streamed to boost the visibility and to make it possible for anyone, anywhere, to witness and participate.
Global Water Dances is an effective platform for advocacy, education and empowerment, impacting thousands and reminding us that water is life - and that art can move people to action.
📅 Event Date: June 14, 2025
📣 Last date to be listed on our calendar: June 7, 2025
~Learn more, find a site near you, or register to host an event: https://globalwaterdances.org/
~Explore our sister project, Water is Love, a film-based journey that complements GWD’s live, place-based storytelling: https://www.waterislovefilm.org/
Instagram: instagram.com/gwdances
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/globalwaterdances
Website: https://globalwaterdances.org/
The Cursed Vagina
The Cursed Vagina (2018)
A story of a daughter from the Magi Tribe who rebels against patriarchy and questions her tribal customs. The Character Ntombizonke, curses the womb that brought her to this earth. The land of Zania is barren, until a prophet claims that only Ntombizonke’s virginity can remove the curse. When she challenges the authority of her elders and the meaning of tradition, this violates the ancient law of her forefathers and it is up to her people to deal with her actions and please the ancestors. A journey of self-discovery that will reveal her real identity, values and traditions will be tested. Would Ntombizonke go against her culture and disappoint the whole village? Pula!
The question remains the same, Ngisiqalakuphi isiqalekiso sami?
Droogfontein
What is water? I ask you this question because from across the world water means so many different things to so many different people. But at the end of the day, water is global, and globally we as a community need water.
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Staging Droogfontein for me was less about a performance and more about how important it is to raise awareness in the spaces that struggle the most with water purification, regularities and possibilities. Where many a times we see the city as this all giving, all divine construct, when many times it limits us to our natural, daily needs. That we as humans no longer can find the true sources of these springs of life that we so desperately seek to consume.
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kroes Hare
Kroes Hare is a story about a missing gang member, a man named Tyrone Willett, aged 37. He resides in a coloured community in Northern Kwa-Zulu Natal. Police suspect that he is being hidden by members in the community and hope to corner him by investigating popular spots he is seen to spend time in. The investigators find themselves in a salon that many claim to be owned by the gang leader himself. This is where the story picks up from. After witnessing members who frequent in the salon trying to piece the puzzle together it is revealed that Neville Willett who is the younger brother, knows something about what exactly has happened to Tyrone Willett. What the investigators find out in this salon about the community of Lakeside will either live or die in the salon, literally. This story seeks to highlight gang violence, mob justice and substance abuse. Allow for the real missing middle and their cries to curate their coloured culture in South Africa.
Keitumetse
Keitumetse is a site specific performance piece that explores
the concepts of self-awareness and physical identity within space.
Hisstory
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Hisstory explores several themes such as resilience, hope and the importance of remembering the historical significance of humanity. The writer becomes a symbolic figure of the varying realities of being an artist who is faced with the pressure of pleasing his family, whilst trying to hone his craft. It is through his story and the love of writing that Hisstory is told.
The Coin
The town of Ma Aa next to De Aar; a community shaken down into making do with little, where their only hope to exit the current dystopian world is waiting for their name to be called in front of the Post Office every day. What they hope to be granted, and how long they will patiently wait in earnest expectation is explored in the pressure cooker.
"You can't Bury a Seed"
Mexican Proverb
Sketch Production
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