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Jay Pather is a choreographer, curator, writer and teacher. He is Professor at the University of Cape Town where he directs the Institute for Creative Arts (ICA). He is curator for the Infecting the City Festival; the ICA Live Art Festival, the Afrovibes Festival (The Netherlands); co-curates Spier Light Art (Cape Town) and has curated recently curated live art for the Africa 2020/21 Season (France), Zeitz MOCAA and the Spielart Festival in Munich. His artistic work deploys site-specific, interdisciplinary and intercultural strategies to frame postcolonial imaginaries, decoloniality and matters of social justice. Works include Qaphela Caesar, a deconstruction of Julius Caesar, at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and rite, a re-imagining of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps. Publications include articles in New Territories: Theatre, Drama, and Performance in Post-apartheid South Africa; Rogue Urbanism; Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm, and a book, Transgressions, Live Art in South Africa. He was recently appointed International Research Chair at Artec|Paris 8 University, on the jury for the TURN Fonds in Germany and made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.

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    Professor, University of Cape Town