WE ARE: A Dance Showcase & Celebration – a Muizenberg Festival 2020 Event

ABOUT

We Are... time alone has meant time for seeking and healing—and the courage to challenge and be what you believe. Welcome to the Alive Dance Studio showcase and celebration—a two-part event to explore and celebrate who we are, as individuals and as a community.

PRICE: 

R120 adults to attend both part 1 & part 2, or R80 for one or the other.

*** 50% OFF for CHILDREN < 17y/o  

PART 1: TEACHER SHOWCASE

8:00 - 9:30pm

~A musical act to open the evening~

   • Duet by Mia Havenga and Joshua Pearlson

~ A line-up of 4 solo dance acts spanning Belly Dance, and Martial Arts, to Modern Dance, Afro Fusion, and Ballet ~

   • Julia Nowicki

   • Diana Ocholla

   • Tholakele Antamu

   • Gita Galina

   (Live guitar by Joshua Pearlson as backing for several dance performances.)

See bottom of this description to learn more about the performers

PART 2: DREAM DANCE PARTY WITH DJ JAMES NOWICKI

9:30 - 11:00pm

DJ James Nowicki is going to rock the house as we shake our socially distanced booties to celebrate the triumphant spirits we've maintained through an extraordinary 2020. Expect an eclectic mix of music that takes you on a journey through the dance...

Come rejoin and rejoice with our community to support local movers and shakers!

ABOUT ALIVE DANCE STUDIO

For over 25 years Alive Dance Studio has been a member of the Muizenberg community. The classes that are offered range from Belly Dance, and Martial Arts, to Modern Dance, Afro Fusion, and Ballet. There are classes suitable for young and old, men, women, beginners to intermediate. The studio is a great space for events and is available for hire for performances, workshops, classes,etc. 

Every year we hold a concert to showcase the different classes, movement and creativity that occurs within the Studio’s four walls. We look forward to entertaining you and celebrating movement.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

*JULIA NOWICKI*

, founder and owner of Alive Dance Studio, is a professional belly dancer, teacher and cranio- sacral therapist. Through her teachings, she reminds us of the joy of authentic physical expression during which the communication and knowledge of the body brings to us awareness of self – a more comfortable, healthier, joyous self.

* DIANA OCHOLLA *

is a part-time modern dance teacher and choreographer at Alive Dance Studio. She also attends flamenco classes and performs whenever she can. Most recently she coordinated and performed a movement piece with five other women as a response to Gender-Based Violence, which was titled 'Rise'. Watch the 'Art as activism' video interview here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1iPX3eO3EA

* THOLAKELE ANTAMU *

is a poet, princess and performer. I studied performance art and graduated as a professional triple threat performer. I travelled with my one woman show, ‘Exhibit-S, Ode to Saartjie Baartman by a Black South African Woman.’ She is shaped by a unique personal experience of adoption and growing up as a young black woman with white parents, which she also blogs about.

* GITA GALINA *

Dancer, visual artist and street performer. Her original training is in ballet but she is now dancing a mix of ballet, hip hop, and whacking amongst other styles.

* MIA HAVENGA *

is the founder of the band Made In Africa is a multi- hyfinite artist/performer that consists of a soulful combination of jazz, contemporary and indie music. She is an apprentice belly dancer at Alive Dance Studio.

* JOSH PEARLSON *

""I have been playing guitar for 20 years, studied jazz after high school and put a rock band together called After Robot which we toured extensively for 8 years, I have also been a music teacher for 10 years. some notable gigs include Oppikoppi, STRAB, Up The Creek, Inniebos, Rocking For Rhinos, opening for Alien Ant Farm, Saarang festival (Chennai india), I enjoy all music and especially love jam sessions!"

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