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Ruth Levin-Vorster
Born
Known forTheatre
Awards2011 Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellowship


Ruth Levin-Vorster is a South African director, choreography, teacher, writer and film-maker. Her works are a unique combination of medicine, dance, and theatre, starting with the body and working through the psyche and story.[1]

The common thread through all these disciplines is working with the body as her starting point and the route into the psyche of character, performer, dancer or story

Career

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Education

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Levin-Vorster has an MA in Theatre & Performance from University of Cape Town. Her undergraduate study took place at the Drama Centre in London, where she remained to work professionally until 2002.[2]

Credits[2]

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  • Murder by Hanoch Levin (Gate Theatre London)
  • Adrain Mitchell’s adaptation and translation of Calderon’s Life’ A Dream (The Old Red Lion)
  • Lorca’s Yerma (Oxford), Shepard’s Savage/Love (Canoe Hall)
  • Minute to the Millennium – a multi-cultural exploration of roots – directed and co-written for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1999
  • Vertical & Horizontal i exhibited and performed at Spier Contemporary 2007/2008
  • Waking Time - Spier Summer Festival,
  • Porra (co-writer)
  • Porra 2-The Returnsh! (concept and co-writer)
  • Two To Tango (Mike Van Graan)
  • Beauty Censored (dance theatre) – Out The Box Festival
  • Eros & Doors (dance theatre)
  • Nine (Baxter dance Festival)
  • Choreography for a Palm Tree Productions event in the Seychelles
  • Junkie – Grahamstown 2007

References

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  1. ^ "Ruth Levin-Vorster". Infecting the City 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Bodyworks Coaches". Act Cape Town. Retrieved 16 April 2012.


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