Literary Festival, The Hague, Netherlands


(Photo: Imke van Heerden)

During the opening night of the “Festival voor het Afrikaans” in the Theatre on the Spui in The Hague, Netherlands, Etienne van Heerden performed with David Kramer and Schalk Joubert; he read the endings of three of his novels (Ancestral Voices, Kikuyu and 30 Nights in Amsterdam) and they improvised. Here they are performing the dance sequence of 30 Nights in Amsterdam: the kwela, the foxtrot, the jive, the cha-cha, the twist and the two-step …