One of post-Apartheid South Africa’s leading choreographers,
VINCENT MANTSOE,
is exploring new approaches to creating dance.

He descends from a long line of Sangomas (his mother, aunts and grandmother are traditional healers/diviners) and draws his inspiration from ancestral worship and rituals as well as contemporary world cultures. During his formative years he danced with youth clubs practicing street dances and trying to imitate the dance moves seen in music videos. At the same time he woke everyday to the sound of the drum his mother played to greet the Ancestors.

It was not until he began his training at Johannesburg’s Moving Into Dance Company that Mantsoe was able to merge these two distinct dance forms into his own style that he describes as Afro-fusion.

"Mantose is an artist of fierce uniqueness…He combines entertainment, history, and spirituality with an earth-shaking expressiveness that audiences find irresistible."
- Dance Magazine