Darkroom Contemporary Dance Theatre

Performance. Digital. Development

Cape Town - based contemporary performance creation. Touring live work, digital performance, public art and screen dance.

About the company

What's on

Institute of Curiosity

The lab is open.

A new home on Bree Street, and with it, the Institute of Curiosity: a space for practise, engagement, creation and discovery.
Turn the UNKNOWN into FUEL for new futures.

Inside the Institute

Production · 26/27 Season

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AI Opera. Through its critical engagement with Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, this charged game of musical chairs confronts questions of agency, autonomy, influence and the blurred boundaries between free will and manipulation, in a digital age.

National Arts Festival Makhanda | 26 - 29 June ’26
Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees | 7 - 8 October ‘26
South African State Theatre | 25 - 28 February '27

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Production · 26/27 Season

e.ID:

e.ID: is a sensory meditation on what it means to exist in an (almost) post - human age.

South African State Theatre | 19 - 23 August ’ 26
DOCK11 Berlin (DE) | 2 - 5 September ’26
ArtEZ (NL) | 8 - 9 September ’26

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Production · 26/27 Season

Blue Funk

Touring Screendance work. Blue Funk charts the physicality of being afraid. The resulting cacophony evokes the volatility of this moment in time, a mounting pressure edging towards its breaking point.

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Darkroom Contemporary

The performance creation company

Creating innovative, contemporary performance experiences that connect artists, technologies and audiences across stages, screens and borders.

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Institute of Curiosity

A space for curiosity, creativity and connection - nurturing movement practice, artistic development, experimentation and meaningful cultural exchange.

Inside the Institute

26/27 Season — at a glance

Live work & screen dance

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e.ID

Blue Funk

Lacuna

What's on

June 2026

26 - 29 JUNE

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at National Arts Festival Makhanda

The Drill Hall, Grahamstown

DARKROOM

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30 July

2026 · THU

Institute of Curiosity

Studio Launch

Bree Street, Cape Town

INSTITUTE

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In the press

“a truly unique experience….. complex, impressive, sharp and fresh.”

- Broadway World

“this is brave, unusual work…you will remember those images for a long time.”

- Bush Radio

“vital, alarming and exquisitely challenging.”

- Daily Maverick

“ Darkroom Contemporary has found a way to transform contemporary dance into an experience that captures the zeitgeist of the times “

- Broadway World

“genre-blurring, mind-bending, beautifully terrifying”

- IOL

“more profound than the sum of its parts…refuses to give up its meaning and doesn’t pretend to have answers to the questions it provokes.”

- Mail & Guardian

“stunningly choreographed, sonically daring, visually hypnotic, and deeply human.”

- IOL

Selected work

2010–2026

The living archive

Our 15-year legacy of innovation in dance, digital, development and interdisciplinary performance — productions, tours and screenings, fully indexed.

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Performance. Digital. Development

The lab is open.

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e.ID:

Blue Funk

Darkroom Contemporary

Institute of Curiosity

26/27 Season — at a glance

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e.ID

Blue Funk

Lacuna

What's on

In the press

“a truly unique experience….. complex, impressive, sharp and fresh.”

“this is brave, unusual work…you will remember those images for a long time.”

“vital, alarming and exquisitely challenging.”

“ Darkroom Contemporary has found a way to transform contemporary dance into an experience that captures the zeitgeist of the times “

“genre-blurring, mind-bending, beautifully terrifying”

“more profound than the sum of its parts…refuses to give up its meaning and doesn’t pretend to have answers to the questions it provokes.”

“stunningly choreographed, sonically daring, visually hypnotic, and deeply human.”

Selected work

The living archive

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