Dance For All is a South African documentary special which explores the daily lives of a Gugulethu dance company as they prepare for their inaugural performance at Artscape.
The documentary aired on SABC1 on Tuesday 26 February 2008, at 21h00. It is an hour long.
Synopsis
In 2002 former Cape Town principal ballet dancer, Phillip Boyd, and former Royal Ballet soloist and prima ballerina abssoluta, Phyllis Spira, formed a non-profit dance education centre called Dance for All.
Learning ballet techniques (from plié to dancing en pointe) without losing sight of African dance and beat, the school introduces commitment, discipline and a sense of purpose to the children in the township.
Based in Gugulethu, the school has grown into a dance company. They are about to give their inaugural performance at Artscape, which Boyd, Spira and the company’s dancers, Nqaba, Zandile, Theo, Noluyanda, Xola, hope shows that the company is capable of competing against the Cape Town Ballet.
This documentary explores the daily lives of the company’s members as they grand jeté towards new horizons.