Mhayise Productions
Artistic Director:Musa Hlatshwayo

Mhayise Productions is an internationally acclaimed project based performing arts initiative based in KwaZulu Natal in South Africa. The multi-award winning Musa Hlatshwayo founded this initiative an is the artistic director of the company. The company specializes in creating and staging cutting edge and socially conscious contemporary performing arts through the medium of dance, theatre, multimedia and multidisciplinary site specific/installation performances, innovative edutainment and interactive or participatory campaigns. The company also facilitates engaging workshops (for the public, arts festivals, schools and the cooperate companies) in African Contemporary Dance, African Dance, Zulu Traditional Dance, Gumboot Dance, Fusion, Afro-fusion, physical theatre, creative movement and contact improvisation.

The company also fuses Afrocentric (conventional and non-conventional) community participatory theatre methodologies with forum, image, ambush, industrial and invisible theatre. Mhayise Productions also has a resourceful database of developing performing artists as it also mentors artists (both nationally and internationally) specializing in poetry, music, community theatre, dance and other performing arts genres.

Catch Mhayise Productions’ open dance/movement classes at Stable Theatre; 116 Johannes Nkosi (formerly Alice Street in Durban) every Saturday between 10 and 3pm.

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Mhayise Productions is a registered member of the Performing Arts Network of South Africa (PANSA).