Pula! From Broadway To Gabs With Dance

Pula dance show. PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES
Pula dance show. PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES

Pula - an incredible dance theatre production by ILoveBotswana Ensemble that showcased on Broadway, Times Square, New York in August last year finally returned on stage in Gaborone with an astonishing show at the SSKB Auditorium.

Even though the show experienced some disturbing sound glitches, the local production team produced an almost a match of a Broadway production standard. Directed and written by Andrew Kola of Mophato Dance Theatre, Pula (Setswana name for rain) is a powerful dance theatre that uniquely tells a story of Batswana and their relation with rain.

The story presents the scenes of life in traditional Botswana village during the good rains and then moves to a drought season.

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