Underground Dance Theatre Launches Thundafund Campaign for 2015 KKNK Run of ASKOOP

Underground Dance Theatre is embarking on an exciting new adventure. ASKOOP, a fresh, edgy and uniquely South African cabaret, will tour to the 2015 Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees. An exciting aspect of ASKOOP is that it will be Underground Dance Theatre's very first crowd-funded production. Crowd-funding is a platform that enables many people in a community to donate small amounts of money, which add up to the kind of fudning that can make this production happen.

ASKOOP is a brand new dance-cabaret that reveals the iconic shopping trolley as more than just a wheeled metal structure. It fills. It empties. It waits to become... a cart-horse for the middle class, a sturdy companion for the barefoot beggar. With satirical humour and pathos, ASKOOP questions ideals of fulfilment and the limits of greed. What does it mean to be rich? What does it mean to be poor? ASKOOP is a dance with desire, a modern day redemption song. The piece explores themes of fulfilment and wealth, poverty and dreaming big: the story of the South African Dream, from the Camps Bay kugel to the Khayelitsha cleaner, the BEE buppie to the Platteland pop.

The Underground Dance Theatre team recently launched their Thundafund page, where people can find out more about this project and how to get involved. Every time someone donates, that person will receive a reward, from a special mention on our social media platforms to tickets to the production.

Steven van Wyk, one of the co-founders of Underground Dance Theatre says, "We don't simply want to take your money, we want you to be involved in this adventure with us, so that when you get to see the new work by UDT, you can think to yourself, 'I was apart of this. I helped make this happen.'" Hear more from the Underground Dance Theatre team in this video about the project.