{"id":1164,"date":"2017-03-08T20:42:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T20:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:30","slug":"ntsikelelo-cekwana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2017\/03\/08\/ntsikelelo-cekwana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ntsikelelo Cekwana"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Ntsikelelo &#8220;Boysie&#8221; Cekwana<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>PACT Dance Company<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>NAPAC Dance Company<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linz09.at\/fm\/4972\/thumbnails\/boyzie-cekwana.jpg.443667.jpg\" width=\"293\" height=\"193\" \/>After graduating from the Johannesburg Dance Foundation, a program for children from the townships of South Africa, in 1989, Ntsikelelo Cekwana danced with the PACT Dance Company and the NAPAC Dance Company, where he was also choreographer-in-residence from 1994 to 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He won top honors for choreography in the 1995 International Ballet Competition in Finland, where Washington Ballet&#8217;s founder and artistic director, Mary Day, saw his duet, &#8220;Brother, Brother.&#8221; Her company gave the work its North American premiere in the 1995-1996 season, and she asked him for a larger piece for the 20th anniversary season. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/bs-xpm-1997-05-12-1997132076-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New dance evokes wild grasslands Ballet: Choreographer Cekwana&#8217;s new dance, &#8216;Savannah,&#8217; brings to life the flora and fauna of his native Africa., The Baltimore Sun<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See also:<\/b><\/p>\n<p id=\"link-aa7925a\" class=\"css-3snf05 e1h9rw200\" data-test-id=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1996\/01\/25\/arts\/dance-review-some-visitors-from-washington.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Some Visitors From Washington, The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/bs-xpm-1997-05-12-1997132076-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New dance evokes wild grasslands Ballet: Choreographer Cekwana&#8217;s new dance, &#8216;Savannah,&#8217; brings to life the flora and fauna of his native Africa., The Baltimore Sun<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/13\/the-landscape-of-south-african-contemporary-dance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enigmatic Bodyscapes \u2013 Sampling South African Dance, Critical Stages<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Video link: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.numeridanse.tv\/en\/dance-videotheque\/janee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ja, Nee, Numeridanse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ntsikelelo &#8220;Boysie&#8221; Cekwana PACT Dance Company NAPAC Dance Company After graduating from the Johannesburg Dance Foundation, a program for children from the [&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-1164","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\/1164","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=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7417,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/7417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}