Mandela’s Dancers: Oral Histories of Program Participants by Rodreguez King-Dorset

By Rodreguez King-Dorset

The position of dance and track within the fight opposed to South Africa’s apartheid regime is definitely documented. This ebook explores a unique bankruptcy within the historical past of post-liberation South Africa. In 1993, woman Anya Sainsbury, a former ballerina on the Royal Ballet in London, met Nelson Mandela at a celebration in South Africa. Out of this assembly got here the dance scholarship application on the Rambert tuition of Ballet and modern Dance, which supplied 22 South African dance scholars the chance to review in London from 1994 to 2005.
Drawing on archival images and private reminiscences, the writer highlights the private studies of six of these dancers and Mandela’s value for modern dance.

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