3 COLOURS - Opening Show of World Summit on Arts and Culture 2009

3 Colours was commissioned for the opening of the 4th World Summit on Arts and Culture in September 2009 in Johannesburg. The theme of the Summit was ‘Meeting of Cultures: Creating Meaning through the Arts’. 

In this mixed media performance about the complexities of inter-culturalism, Brett chose to portray different societies/cultures symbolically, as shrines.

In his programme notes he writes: ‘Indefinable as they are, our cultures are sacred to us. At the heart of each glows a unique cluster of precious jewels: our myths and histories, our heritage, our values and social structures, our cosmology and relationship to the Ultimate . . . The energy of these clusters is expressed by and enshrined in the forms of cultural expression distinctive to each people . . . So many varied manifestations. Forever unfurling, forever evolving. In a spirit of arrogance, it’s so easy to believe that any one of these “shrines” is more worthy, more beautiful – has more right to be – than another.’

The production featured 3 companies of dancers (styled in white, red and black), several musicians and singers, and a choir.

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‘ I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want all the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet. ’

M.K. Ghandi

‘ We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. ’

Martin Luther King, Jr

‘Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life. ’

Octavio Paz

‘ Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without. ’

William Sloane Coffin, Jr

HISTORY:

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• 2009: 4th World Summit on Arts and Culture (Johannesburg)
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