HIV and AIDS affects all South Africans, whether they are HIV-positive or not and has marked both the personal and the political experience of South African society. It has also had a distinct impact on South African performance. Social scientist Corinne Squire emphasises that '[i]n high HIV-prevalence contexts such as South Africa … HIV becomes everyone's problem' (2007: 9) and because of this, a number of choreographers working in the idiom of South African contemporary dance, make work that explores HIV and AIDS. In South Africa, HIV is predominantly sexually transmitted in the heterosexual section of the population. This is further complicated by the patriarchal character of South African society where female sexuality is frequently governed and controlled by societal customs around sex.
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