The V&A Waterfront’s Good Night Fridays’ return with new, fresh conversations on Podcasts
• Episode three Friday 20 August Body Poetry – talking homegrown dance culture
• Episode four Friday 27 August Soul Food – music and food, Mzansi style.
Good Night Fridays is back, this time with an insightful and entertaining series of weekly podcasts that seeks to explore some of Cape Town’s sub-cultures and the people behind them.
WHEN & HOW: Every Friday in August from 6pm, listeners are invited to engage in a range of discussions with hosts Kuhle Adams and Mathew Kieser on streaming platforms such as V&A Waterfront YouTube page, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
For episode 3 on 20 August, choreographer Snethemba Mbatha and award-winning dancer Lee-Shane Booysen join the hosts to talk Body Poetry, the dance culture in Cape Town and South Africa. For episode 4 on 27 August, Soul Food, we examine the relationship between music and food together with jazz musician Mandisi Dyantyis and Pitso Chauke of Pitso’s Kitchen fame.
Hosted by TV presenter, Kuhle Adams and clothing designer, Mathew Kieser. Both these extraordinary talents will hang out with our awesome guests allowing for a natural, energy filled insightful conversation to take place.
So, thanks to Good Night Fridays on Podcasts you can #STAYSAFE and #STAYCONNECTED
Tinyiko Mageza, Executive Manager of Marketing at the V&A Waterfront says, “Over the years the V&A Waterfront has served as a platform for creative expressions, be it through its successful buskers’ program, its Art in Public program, and being home to Africa’s largest museum of contemporary art, the Zeitz MOCAA. The V&A Waterfront’s Good Night Friday’s is a podcast made for the curious by the curious. It is a platform that takes a deeper dive into the sub-cultures that shape popular culture. We do so by creating an authentic space for conversations that shine a spotlight on the creative people of this vibrant city and our waterfront neighbourhood.”
Meet some of the Good Night Fridays team
SNETHEMBA MBATHA
Sne Mbatha is a professional dancer, choreographer, actress, Mtv Base Awards, Metro FM Awards, and SAFTAS GloCaf Miller Castle Lite dancer who rose to fame as one of the Top 16 contestants on the second season of the SABC1 reality competition So You Think You Can Dance, in 2010. She is a natural dancer that grew up following Janet Jackson until krumping came along. At first her mother hated her krumping, but eventually she won her over. She joined a dance school called Dance Direction International when she was 15. In 2008, at the age of 16, she released two krump video clips of her dancing.
LEE- SHANE BOOYSEN
Lee- Shane Booysen got his start at the age of nine when he joined his sister’s church hip hop group that would perform at the church on Sundays. Drawing on his day-to-day experiences and the people around him, Lee-Shane spends 3-4 hours training on top of his daily work as a dancer in industry that range from stage to street, and from production to film. He is also inspired by dancers such as Les Twins, Parris Goebel, Anuq Wilson, Daphne Jubber, and the Jabbawokkees, as well as the dancers in Step Up 3 and Stomp the Yard.
MANDISI DYANTYIS
Born and raised in Port Elizabeth, Mandisi began playing the trumpet at the age of eight. He Studied Classical music throughout his schooling career (Pearson High School) and emerged from the University of Cape Town with a BMus Honors Degree in Jazz Studies in 2005 where he played in the UCT Big Band for most of his studies. He is a versatile musician who is also a composer, arranger and producer in not only Jazz, but Western Classical and African Indigenous Music as well. ‘
He has played with some of the country’s top musicians over the years. These include Jimmy Dludlu, The Abdullah Ibrahim Big Band, Robbie Jansen, Max Vidima, Moreira Chonguica just to name a few. He has produced, played and co-written on Nomfundo Xaluva’s multi award winning albums KUSILE and From Now On.
PITSO CHAUKE
Pitso Chauke has come full circle in a very unusual way by opening his restaurant, Pitso’s Kitchen, at Makers Landing. Up until 2017, the self-taught chef was a detective, just a stone’s throw away, at the South African Police Station near the Cruise Terminal. “I swapped the bullet-proof vest for an apron, and now I’ve returned to feed my friends,” he jokes.
