Dada Masilo: ‘I don’t need therapy anymore’ by DredieMann
ending on April 12, is an acknowledgment of her grandmother, her biggest supporter.
Having joined The Dance Factory, a unique non-profit dance institution aimed to train children in contemporary dance and ballet, a year before receiving that vital pearl of wisdom, Masilo says that foundation set her up for the long road ahead.“I started dancing when I was 11 years old with a girl group called the Peace Makers in Soweto and we we’re dancing to Michael Jackson, so it was a lot of fun.
She continued: “I went and auditioned in 2004 at the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios in Brussels and I got in, somehow. I still can’t believe that I got into that school because it is so exclusive. “So she died on my 21st birthday and that is what propelled me to go, ‘OK, I want to tell stories and to make work based on narrative and making people feel. That is why I do what I do.”
“So when I do that, I don’t know what I am doing. But I think that in terms of cultures, traditions and rituals I have to go to my elders and go, ‘This is the kind of work that I want to do, is it OK for me to do this’. Performed by an all-South African cast of 11 spectacular dancers, at the piece’s heart is Stravinsky’s epic tale of the struggle of the sacrificial victim, danced by Masilo herself.
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