The annual KMSDT Outreach Creative Camp is
a week-long, residential, event for up to 50-80 talented individuals from
schools and outreach groups. This is the
follow up workshops after the KwaSuka School Festival happened in June 2017.
The week includes workshops in rhythm,
understanding the body, music and piece combination and selection,
co-ordination, choreography, teaching techniques and final showcase.
“This year we have included the basic
language of movement in Drama, the fine Art and Music in dance. During the
camps, students learn the importance and values of the discipline and
dedication to dance training seven hours a day.
The Camps also focus on building the confidence and life skills of
talented, but vulnerable and marginalized young in KZN,” says Vusi Makhanya,
founder of KMSDT
The output will be showcasing several styles
to the community of the area by hosting friends and families of the
participants on the last day of the camp while the outcomes will be around
opening talk access and growing audience development.
KwaMashu School of Dance Theatre, founded
in 2004, is acknowledged as KwaMashu’s leading contemporary Dance Theatre
Company. It is renowned, internationally and locally, as a company that
influences and preserves the arts through the youth development, choreography and
dance performance in KwaZulu-Natal.
KMSDT’s distinguished, home-grown methodology ensures that strong
technique is matched by a uniquely South African philosophy of dance which
reflects the diverse political, cultural and historical heritage. KMSDT’s uses
dance as a transformation tool to integrate social awareness and cultural
inclusiveness that embodies the nature of South Africa’s Bill of Rights.
These opportunities of socio-economic and
historical inclusion give youth, irrespective of their arts background, a fair
and equitable chance to reach their full potential in dance. By welcoming
diverse dancers from all historical backgrounds and focusing solely on
developing talent, KMSDT shapes and liberates a resplendent tapestry of
prodigious creative and critical performances over the past 11 years.
In order to enhance and deepen the 13
year-old legacy of the KMSDT, the focus is on building the technical and
creative capacity of trainees and dancers through education and training,
skills development, skills transfer and job creation for economic sustainability
of artists through an orchestrated network of support.
KMSDT is located at the Sport Centre
KwaMashu in Durban and conducts its programmes throughout the province, across
the country and internationally. The three-pronged programme will be geographically
extended to increase the awareness and interest that results in opening
pathways to the arts market that develops audiences and proliferates funding in
arts, dance and theatre. This model enhances the sustainability of KMSDT
through collaboration with community or non-profit organisations and artists
within this sector.
KwaMashu School of Dance Theatre 2017
Summer Dance Camp is made possible by National Art Council with eThekwini Sport
and Recreation
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