When I was two years old, I started taking dance classes. I remember twirling to “The Itsy-Bitsy Spider” in a small room made for small people, wearing a pink leotard and tutu and ballet slippers.

Dance and fitness have always been very closely related. As a professional dancer, you either get fitter through dance or you workout to improve your fitness so your dance performances also improve.

Indigenous dancer and author Ria Thundercloud shares her journey in dance. Finding My Dance - Indigenous dancer and author Ria Thundercloud shares how her journey in dance helped save her life and ...

“I told my grandmother, I would love to dance as well. That’s all. That’s how it all started, at the Zama Dance School in Gugulethu.” It’s late in the afternoon when we speak, and Mamela Nyamza is at ...

You’d think I’d have answered the question by now. I mean, I’ve written a book called Why We Dance. You’d think that “we” includes me. It does and it doesn’t. The we includes me in so far as I ...