IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SONIA RADEBE – AWARD WINNING DANCER

Little Sonia was trained by the self-taught Griffiths Arco Matlala who proudly took his high energy young students every year to dazzle at Dance Umbrella’s community dance showcase. Her love of movement also took her to Jackie Mbuyiselwa Semela’s children’s classes at the DOCC/ YMCA in Orlando which led her to working with Soweto Dance Theatre. At MIDM where she completed the teachers Training Community Dance Course in 2003, she has established herself not only as a principal dancer but as a teacher and choreographer. It would have been so easy to stay in her comfort zones. But she hasn’t. In 2009, highly pregnant, she collaborated with the inimitable American arts activist Rhodessa Jones in the cells at Johannesburg’s women’s prison.