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KZN DanceLink was formed with the principal aim of raising the profile of dance in the province. There was also consensus on the need for members to share their knowledge and experience relating to their individual dance styles. We were teachers, performers, choreographers and supporters of dance.

Today we are an established part of the dance network in the country. KZN DanceLink is inundated with requests for mailing lists and databases and is a contact point for teachers and performers from elsewhere in Africa and abroad. It also conducts workshops in three childrens homes and one community group and was responsible for the birth of a performing group at Gods Golden Acre. Our annual activities are Imbumba, a showcase of the work of our members which forms part of the National Creative Arts Youth Festival; a large-scale youth dance performance project, GIYANI LUSHA, which celebrates our young people; and the Durban Dance Awards, where we honour our dancers, choreographers and all those who contribute to the development and production of dance in KwaZulu-Natal. Each year too we consider carefully the needs of this community as it grows, or flounders, or reaches for the stars. We have given choreographic commissions, sent young dancers to the university to learn to be teachers, run a Choreographic Laboratory. In 2008 we will run a Professional Development Course for young dancers and choreographers who need to understand arts administration, how to apply for funding, how to establish an organization, how to put on a successful production.
We have been an incubator, a home, a facilitator of training, at times a holder of hands, a responder to requests, invitations and collaborations. With continuing support from sponsors, we can dance to the music of time, South African time.

The Board

Chair and Administrator: Lynn Maree
Treasurer: Peter Taylor
Board Members:
- Ntombi Gasa
- Suria Govender
- Lliane Loots
- Smeetha Singh
- Vasugi Singh

Contact details:
POBox 17058
Congella
4013
Tel: (031) 206 1696
Fax: (031) 205 0568
Email: lynnelal@iafrica.com
Website: www.kzndancelink.co.za

DANCE WEEKLY WORKSHOP PROGRAMME 2007

God's Golden Acre Workshops: These have been running since 2000. Some of the young people in the children’s home have become seasoned performers, in a wide range of dance styles, and on an extraordinary diverse range of performance venues.
Their story is worthy of celebration. We were involved in the start of their dance/drama/music productions, and we continue to support these. They have toured England twice and Germany twice, and in 2009 they plan to take a third production to the United Kingdom.
Durban Childrens Homes workshops: These operated throughout the year, and were more focused on discipline and technique than previously.
St. Philomenas Home>: Classes began here in 2005 and continued throughout 2006 with a range of our teachers.
All three of these placements offered a short dance for Cato Manor Vibe’s Indumezulu Yomdanso which took place in Cato Crest in December 2007. Choreography was by Thokozani Makhoba, Sibusiso Ndebele, and Vusi Makanya.

We provided financial support to Dudlu Ntombi, a girls project in KwaMashu, run by KZN DanceLink member company, Flatfoot Dance Company. This not only provides dance classes, but also focuses on life-skills, empowering and educating the young girls who have shown growing maturity and self-management.

Fifteen dance tutors followed a Dance in Education Module at the University of KwaZulu Natal from February to June 2007, and acquired some pedagogic expertise, and up-to-date knowledge of developments in education generally, and arts and culture in particular.

KZN DanceLink acknowledges the financial support from 2005 to 2008 from the National Lotteries Distribution Trust Fund.