Interview with Mamela Nyamza - Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
Mamela Nyamza is a dancer, teacher, choreographer, curator, director and activist in South Africa. She is trained in a variety of styles of dance including ballet, modern dance, African dance, the Horton technique, Spanish dance, jazz, movement and mime, flying low technique, release technique, gumboot dance and Butoh.
A Conversation with Mamela Nyamza – Sarafina Magazine
Mamela Nyamza is a performance artist, dancer and choreographer born and raised in Gugulethu, Cape Town, South Africa. Nyamza was trained in dance at the Zama Dance School under the Royal Academy of Dance (Cape Town, South Africa). Mamela Nyamza - Zeitz MOCAA
Mamela Nyamza first made “Hatched” in as a solo work. Her then young son, Amkele Mandla, joined her on stage with crayons and paper, busy colouring while his mother performed with washing line and pegs, on pointe. EXTENDED BIO: Mamela Nyamza – Art on our Mind
Mamela Nyamza is an internationally renowned choreographer, dance artist, activist and Standard Bank Young Artist winner. After a successful run in The Netherlands, her carefully curated double bill, Rock to the Core and De-Apart-Hate arrives at the Baxter Theatre for a limited engagement before jetting off to be performed in Germany.
Mamela Nyamza | Director Profile - MAMELA’s ARTISTIC MOVEMENT
Highly acclaimed and provocative choreographer Nyamza’s work considers the engendered body, and the contemporary definition of dance, through her experimentation around themes of men and (mostly) women’s roles and issues. Mamela Nyamza - Faculty of Humanities Mamela Nyamza is a dancer, teacher, choreographer, curator, director and activist in South Africa. She is trained in a variety of styles of dance including ballet, modern dance, African dance, the Horton technique, Spanish dance, jazz, movement and mime, flying low technique, release technique, gumboot dance and Butoh.Mamela Nyamza - Pina Bausch Fellowship for Dance and Choreography Mamela Nyamza is a performance artist, dancer and choreographer born and raised in Gugulethu, Cape Town, South Africa. Nyamza was trained in dance at the Zama Dance School under the Royal Academy of Dance (Cape Town, South Africa). She furthered her studies at Pretoria Dance Technikon where she obtained a National Diploma in Ballet (Pretoria, [ ].Mamela Nyamza: the body as instrument - Brand South Africa Mamela Nyamza’s lifelong negotiation of her performing body and her professional self has been driven by the fight for means, recognition and dignity. In Apartheid South Africa where black people were relegated to the status of ‘third class’ citizens, structural racism and daily racist injustices made her pursuit of excellence in the discipline of dance an arduous task. Tanz im August | Mamela Nyamza | Biography
Nyamza’s highly acclaimed “HATCHED”, created in , was her first work to kick-start her art programme of unapologetically demystifying, deconstructing and trampling on the norms and standards of the dance/classics. Mamela Nyamza first made “Hatched” in 2007 as a solo work. Mamela Nyamza bio Mamela Nyamza was born and bred in Gugulethu township, near Cape Town in South Africa. From a tender age of 8 years whilst learning Ballet at the Zama Dance School in Gugulethu, Ms Nyamza, knew from the onset that, her love of body movement will eventually bring both prejudice and prestige to her career as a dance-theatre.
Born in Gugulethu in Cape Town, Mamela Nyamza trained as a dancer at the Zama Dance School and later at the Pretoria Dance Technikon where she received a. Born in Gugulethu, Mamela Nyamza trained as a dancer at the ZAMA Dance School and later at the Pretoria Dance Technikon where she received a National Diploma in Ballet. Highly acclaimed and provocative choreographer Nyamza’s work considers the engendered body, and the contemporary definition of dance, through her experimentation around themes of men and (mostly) women’s roles and issues.
HAU - Hebbel am Ufer - Mamela Nyamza - Biography
The South African choreographer and art activist, Ms. Mamela Nyamza, is formally trained in Ballet, and got further training at the Alvin Ailey New York School of Dance as visiting scholar. This is where Nyamza began to tackle the classical genre of dance, by deconstructing the traditional methods and logic of ballet and contemporary dance. 