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A sisterhood blossoming in Atlantis
The Avondale Majorettes is a group of girls that call themselves the sisterhood. Being a majorette is an exuberant exercise. Performances are usually backed by a marching band and are used to carry a melodious ruckus consisting of baton twirling, gymnastics and...
Find your rainbow: turning passion into possibilities
Since June 2010, the Rainbow Academy has mobilized and transformed the lives of over four hundred youth through once in a life-time opportunities. “For the longest time I’ve been a black sheep in my community for being passionate about art because normally it never...
EXPRESS YOURSELF THROUGH PASSION
Disciplined through dance, Kuyakhanya cultivates role models. It is important for a child to grow up in an environment that nurtures self expression. The Kuyakhanya Primary School Arts Project in Crossroads creates a space where all children fit in by standing out....
Marching your way to success
When you march, you feel a strange sort of power that flares up within you, when you march together, you feel a sense of unity. This is the sense I get from the Western Province Marching Association (WPMA), an exceptional marching band and organisation that focuses...
Discovering personal power through Belly dancing
The pressure on women to conform to unreasonable ideas of beauty is unforgiving in the age of filters, Instagram, photoshop and all the rest. Loving yourself for who you are is a journey of discovery and one of the life learnings encouraged by Aphrodite Belly Dancing...
Marching and dancing to the same beat
If you were in a band, what instrument would you play? Would you drum, play marimbas, cymbals, or trumpet? How would you fill in those gaps with your unique sound? Or would you move to the rhythms in your body? In Macassar, there is a world filled with music and dance...
We challenge South Africans to remember the promise of freedom and to creatively imagine an African future
The power of thinking differently to imagine a different future on the eve of Freedom Day. We held the seventh of our monthly online Cultural Creative workshops for 40 community performance groups and individuals this past Saturday Focused on imagining a future by...
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