Issue no: 06
routines and attires must on point for people
to take you and your work serious.”
Dance scene in Limpopo
Not everyone thought you could actually
make a living from dance particularly in our
Province Limpopo. And that is what we are
doing as Divine Dance Crew but the most
important thing is that dancers in the
province must take their work serious and
make it a priority. Dance it's still at its infancy
stage in the province and needs to be
upgraded in terms of supporting and
booking dance crews/groups.
Challenges
The most difficult part in what we are doing is
choreographing a new piece/routine. You
first have to have a theme for that routine
that will guide you throughout the routine.
And you also have to come up with
something brilliant that will impress the
audience and leave them wanting more of
your performance. But then creativity must
come in and form part of the process.
Challenges are all over but we take them as
learning lessons. When we started the crew
we had a challenge getting a place to
rehearse and at times we rehearsed in the
street on gravelled road or at back of the
yard of someone's home, it was really
difficult, our health was at risk but that never
made us to back down. We continued until
we got a place just nearby where we stay, it is
a local Pre-school. The people there allowed
us to use the venue because they've seen
the commitment that we had towards our
work. The other challenge was getting
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gigs/events to perform at, since well we
were still the new comers in the game. Event
promoters are difficult to convince but we
had told ourselves that we'll let our work talk
for us.
Support.
So we do not have any sponsor and it is
somehow difficult because we are still at
school, and also not from wealthy families.
So we are struggling financially but like we
said there's absolutely nothing that can
stand in our way to realize our dream. We
finance ourselves from our own pockets and
of cause with the help of our parents and our
manager Matabo Mathekga who has been
like an angel from GOD to us. He has been
helping us and not expecting anything from
us, all he always says is that the only way to
thank him is to make it big and be able to
provide for ourselves and families. That will
be our payment to him. And we also call
upon sponsors to assist us in any way
possible to make us realize our dream.
Word Of Advice.
Our advice to up and coming
Choreographers or Dancers, concentrate
on your work, let your work be your priority
and the rest shall follow. Don't enter into the
industry expecting to get Money and Fame,
NO… Focus more on mastering your work
and building your Brand and then rest will
eventually come to you. Stay away from bad
things, Alcohol abuse, Drug Abuse and also
stay away from people who try to be of bad
influence to you.
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