{"id":1156,"date":"2017-03-08T05:21:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T05:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:30","slug":"andile-ndlovu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2017\/03\/08\/andile-ndlovu\/","title":{"rendered":"Andile Ndlovu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Andile Ndlovu<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>South African Ballet Theatre<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Cape Town City Ballet<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Step Afrika!: Guest<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Washington Ballet Studio Company<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Washington Ballet<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artlink.co.za\/uploadimages\/images_595\/049aa0d7e99ed3dfbf7fe75f782e4c66.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"329\" \/>Andile Ndlovu of Johannesburg, South Africa, is a member of The Washington Ballet after he danced one season with TWB\u2019s Studio Company. Ndlovu began his training in Latin American and ballroom dance at the age of 10. At 15, he began training in ballet under Martin Sch\u00f6enberg, director of Ballet Theatre Afrikan. In 2007, Ndlovu performed with South African Ballet Theatre, performing the lead in <em>Don Quixote<\/em> and the Jester in <em>Swan Lake<\/em>, among other roles. He went on to dance with Cape Town City Ballet and tied for first place in the contemporary category of the 2008 South African International Ballet Competition. Ndlovu was part of the 15 year anniversary tour of Step Afrika! as a guest artist, performed his collaborative choreography solo with Gregory Vuyani Maqoma in <em>Beyond Skin<\/em>, and was a part of the South African version of <em>Queen<\/em> with Mzansi Productions, choreographed by Debbie Rakusin and Timothy Le Roux. He recently choreographed <em>Guardian of the Pool<\/em> which was performed by The Washington Ballet Studio Company. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonballet.org\/company\/andile-ndlovu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andile Ndlovu, Washington Ballet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See also:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/11\/22\/world\/africa\/av-andile-ndlovu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South African ballet dancer confounds racial stereotypes, CNN<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/balletnews.co.uk\/cupcakes-conversation-with-andile-ndlovu-the-washington-ballet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cupcakes Conversation with Andile Ndlovu, The Washington Ballet, Ballet News<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/face2faceafrica.com\/article\/cnn-s-african-voices-profiles-andile-ndlovu-south-african-ballet-dancer-defying-racial-and-gender-stereotypes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN\u2019s African Voices profiles Andile Ndlovu, South African Ballet Dancer Defying Racial and Gender Stereotypes, Face 2 Face Africa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social media:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"_i572c notranslate\" title=\"zuluboy_ndlovu\">Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zuluboy_ndlovu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@zuluboy_ndlovu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andile Ndlovu South African Ballet Theatre Cape Town City Ballet Step Afrika!: Guest Washington Ballet Studio Company Washington Ballet Andile Ndlovu of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7182,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions\/7182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}