Lecturer
Location: -June 2013 MA Dramatic Arts, University of the Witwatersrand
December 2008 BA Honours [Drama], University of Cape Town
December 2007 BA Film and Media Studies [Radio Production], University of Cape Town
Lebogang Disele is currently PhD Candidate at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Her focus in theatre and performance includes dance, acting, directing, voice and more recently, dramaturgy.
Since starting her PhD, she has focused on growing her company, The LC Performance Lab, through which she produces womxn centered performances. Most recently she was part of NextFest with The Space in Between. Other performance credits include Amina in Belleville (2020), directed by Amanda Goldberg at the Bleviss Laboratory Theatre; Words Unzipped at the 2019 SkirtsAfire Festival curated by Karimah Marshall; What (Black) Life Requires at the 2018 Expanse Festival and Unwoven at the 2018 SkirtsAfire Festival, curated by Nasra Adem.
She is a performer-researcher/scholartist focused on interdisciplinary work that places the body at the centre as a process of exploring how oppression impacts and lives in the body. Her PhD research explores how performance can be used to foster women's leadership by inserting women's experiences into the public archive.
Acting
Directing
Drama and Theatre in Education
Workshop/Devised Theatre
Theatre History
Theatre Ethics
Voice
Movement
Gender
Performance
Decolonial Studies
Postcolonial Studies
Contemporary Botswana Theatre and Performance
Leadership
Disele, L. (2015) “In Conversation: Interrogating and Shifting Societal Perceptions of Women in Botswana through Theatre” in Plastow, J. Hutchison, Y. and Matzke, C. (ed) African Theatre 14: Contemporary Women. London: James Curry. pp65-72
Disele, L. (2015) “Searching for a Place: Identity and Displacement at Maitisong Festival” in Rapoo, C. and Kerr, D. (eds) Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies Vol 29, Number 2. Gaborone. Pp234-242
Disele, L. (2016). “Towards Sustainability in the Theatre: A Look at The Company@Maitisong” in Makgala, C.J. (ed) Botswana Notes and Records Vol 48, Number 1. Gaborone. Pp 362-367
Disele, L. (2020). "Towards an Adaptive Dramaturgy" in Agenda. DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2020.1782757