Students of all ages and levels of ability attend daily dance classes on the Outreach Programme. Classes in African dance, classical ballet, contemporary, musical theatre and Spanish dance are conducted in school classrooms and community halls in the township areas of Gugulethu, Nyanga and Khayelitsha as well as Athlone.

The teaching team on the Cape Town Outreach Programme includes Hope Nongqongqo, Margie Sim, Lesley Carruthers-Smith, Samantha Cronje, Nobuntu Nqolase and Bruno Wani. Hope and Nobuntu began as DFA students themselves. DFA hopes to grow its teaching staff in order to extend this service to more children and youth in other disadvantaged areas.


 

 
Photos by Richard Olivier