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Career Overview
Busking Years 1992-95
Establishes his art form through street performances, solo acoustic performances at the Grahamstown Festival (Francois on Piano, One Man and a Cello), first recordings (Ek Praat Klavier, A Moment of Mouth Watering Sounds)
Hitch-Hiking Years 1996-99
Explore non-musical forms of expression. Presents “Birth” at Wits Theatre (no props, no clothes: interpretation of the birth process).
Becoming the HA!Man: Grahamstown Phase 2000-02
Introduces electronic accompaniments and soundtracks. Various soundtracks for Rhodes Drama and First Physical Theatre Company. Various albums recorded, workshops at schools start. Musical direction National for Woman of the Year Gala’s (2001, 2002). First overseas tours.
Becoming the HA!Man: Hogsback Phase 2003-
International tours (Europe and USA) fill to capacity.
Highlights (2003-):
Venues: Oude Libertas, Stellenbosch, First performances for Centre for Christian Spirituality (Desmond Tutu), Dorp Street Theatre, Stellenbosch, Evita se Perron, Darling (Pieter Dirk Uys), Novalis Centre, Cape Town (Ralph Sheppard), Henry Miller Library, route 1, California, Princeton University, USA, Speicherbu’hne arts centre, Bremen, Germany
Collaborations: Paul Hanmer (Jazz pianist, Johannesburg), Derek Gripper (guitarist, Cape Town), Moving Chicago (multi-media, Chicago), “Yearning to be free” (multi-media, Chicago)
Performed with: Sibongile Khumalo, Gloria Bosman, Laurika Rauch, Steve Hofmeyr, Jennifer Ferguson, Christopher Kindo, Stef Bos
Festivals: Main & opening show for Amahlati Arts Festival - Eastern Cape, Mass performance of Her Time Has Come at final event of Suidoosterfees (Cape Town). HA!MAN SHOW Selected for KKNK 2007. HA!Man and Paul Hanmer Improvisational Duo chosen for MAIN FESTIVAL, Grahamstown, 2007.
Workshops: LG company (Seoul), Soka University (Los Angeles), Rhodes University (Grahamstown), Bishop Stordford College (UK), Cello society (Washington D.C.), Three day residency in Niskayuna School District (New York state).
Soundtracks: “Bye Bye Blue Sky” (on the jail writings of anti-apartheid activist Ruth First) and “Jacqui” (on the life of cellist Jacqueline du Preez). Skepping 7, “Tread” (Gary Gordon, First Physical Theatre Company), HAMLET (Peter Krummeck, University of Cape Town), “Jackson Pollock” (Rhodes Drama), Uilvrou (Marlene Zwiegers), “Gumbo” (Remix Theatre Company), “Stasies” (Heike Gehring)
Recordings: Recording Project by Musemix, Belgium of Her Time Has Come, translated in Flemish as “Verdraagzaamheid”
Corporates: Series of appearances for Nashua Mobile
Albums: Whistle Away, Songs and Spontaneity in Parktown North (with Jennifer Ferguson), Stutters of Africa
Music Direction: main event of the Ukkasie Festival in the Royal Albert Hall, London (2004)
Awards: Best debut production at Innibos Festival for “Oom Schalk, die HA!Man en die Groot Vyf”
