Joy Dancer: dance documentary shows the power of movement to give a voice to the silenced

By Sarahleigh Castelyn, Professor in Performing Arts, University of East London

In 2018, when visiting the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, choreographer Gregory Maqoma came across the multimedia installation The African Choir 1891 Re-imagined (2017).

Created by composers Thuthuka Sibisi and Philip Miller and curated by Renee Mussai, the installation tells the story of group of South African singers who toured Britain, Canada and America between 1891 and 1893, raising money for a missionary school back home.

Moved by the work, Maqoma…

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