Daisy Ions
(Marketing & PR)

Experience:

Locals Online – Founder

A social media network and support structure for Artists in South Africa. Reaching new audiences, engaging viewers, encouraging collaborations, supporting fundraising campaigns, enabling better ‘back office’ support. LAUNCHING SOON!

44 on Long – Founding Partner

Elegant, historic, and perfectly positioned, 44 on Long is formerly the home of the revered Space Theatre: a venue internationally renowned for challenging the apartheid laws that forbade people of different races to share a platform. Recently reopened to the public, the venue has stayed true to its history of radical thinking, and now offers its intimate theatre and beautiful rooms as inspiring workshops, conferences and arts & culture spaces for events and groups of up to 200 people.

What’s on in Cape Town – Founder

What’s on in Cape Town (and What’s on in Joburg) is an online events directory connecting the Arts industry with audiences in South Africa.

It is the first nodule in a global online marketplace portal that will enable locals and tourists to interact and transact easily and transparently with any local Arts & Entertainment industry.

Cape Town is ideally suited to build a first on-demand fully responsive marketplace, offering comprehensive and up-to-date information on events, activities, artists and venues: information that is not only streamlined and accessible but quality-assured by readers themselves. Its integrated components and personalised customer service system will transform the manner in which the Arts & Entertainment industry is able to develop and retain audiences.

Celebrity handler

Company NameL!ve TV, London – Researching, booking and on-site ‘wrangling’ of chat show guests.

 

Education:

The University of Birmingham

Degree NameBachelor of Arts (BA)

Field Of StudyEnglish and History of Art

Allison Hendricks  Executive Artistic Director – Dance for All (SA)

(Ex Officio, NGO, Arts, Education)

Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Experience:

2019 marked 30 years of a career in the industry.

Director – DFA (SA) InSPIRAtions Youth Company

Head – Full time Bridging Training Programme

University of Cape Town School of Dance graduate – (renamed UCT Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies)

Former Dance and Arts & Culture WCED Arts Focus School educator (learners 15-18yrs)

ETDP SETA Assessor

Founder of the youth talent project ‘Exposé’ focused on discovering, exposing, nurturing and training young artists between the age of 10-18 yrs in the acts of dancing, singing & music

Founder & Artistic Director of Artists Extreme Pty Ltd – focused on performing arts

Professional career includes productions and projects locally and abroad

 

Teaching Experience:

2008 – present: Dance for All

2013: Dance Teacher on reality television series Dream School SA

2006: Wynberg High School – Arts Focus School (WCED) Grade 8 & 9 (Arts & Culture) & Grade 10 – 12 (Dance Studies)

2004: Battswood Arts Centre – Dance

2001 – 2005: Rosmead Central Primary (WCED) Grade 1 – 7 (Arts & Culture)

2001 – 2003: Full Circle Dance Centre, Cape Town

Professional career: Dancer & Choreographer:

Choreography work: Semi-Professional/amateur & Professional Performing Artists

2013: Choreography for a music video by Echo Ledge Productions Directed by Matthew Griffiths Cinematography by Roscoe Vercueil

2010: Choreography for ‘Dance Cabaret Revue’, Mallorca, Spain

2007 – 2012: Choreography and direction for vocalists Mallorca & Menorca (Spain)

2005 – 2006: ‘Corazon Latino’ with dancer, singer and producer Julio Acevedo

Choreography for “APPLAUZ” – production with singers at Artscape, Cape Town, SA

Warehouse Theatre, Klein Karoo Arts Festival, Standard Bank Arts

Festival (Namibia)

2005: Dancer with Jazzart’s Dance Joint in Jazzart’s production of “Guardian of the Flame”, featuring well-known singer Sibongile Khumalo, Neo Muyanga, Tina Schouw amongst others, Cape Town South Africa Directed by Alfred Hinkel (Jazzart)

2002 – 2003: Corporate/ promotional work in Cape Town, SA with choreographer Christopher Kindo as a member of Full Circle Dance Company

2002: Dance contract “Backstage” (local television series with choreography by Christopher Kindo)

1991: Dance contract Cheju Korea (Dance Captain)

Dance contract  in Ankara, Turkey, show directed by Michael Lovegrove (former Sun City producer)

1998: Dance contract onboard the Royal Starship – Star Line Cruises & Dance contract onboard the Symphony ship – Star Light Cruises

1997: Dance contract at the Mandarin Hotel, Singapore (Dance Captain)

1996: Dance contract at Thaba’Ncu sun (Sun International) – (Dance captain) & Dance contract onboard the Star Pisces ship – Star Cruises – Hong Kong, Thailand & China

1995: Dance contract at the Windhoek Country Club & Resort, Windhoek Namibia & Dance contract Venda Sun (Sun International) – (Dance captain)

1994 – 1995: Dance contract dancer at Thaba’Nchu Sun (Sun International)

1994: Dance contract with Southern Women Contemporary Dance Co choreography Gary Gordon & Dance contract  “Folies Panache” – dance extravaganza, Artscape, Cape Town, South Africa Choreographed by Carlo Spetto

1993: Joined Union Contemporary Dance Company, Cape Town, South Africa Directed by Sonwabo Masepe & Julie Lock

2000 – 2015: Choreography for various productions including that of Primary and Secondary institutions

Choreography for the Artscape Schools’ Arts Festival, Cape Town, South Africa
(a project as part of Artscape Audience Development and Education’s (ADE) ongoing vision to develop a love for the performing arts, and contributing to practical nation-building)

Choreography for the Baxter Dance Festival, Cape Town, South Africa

 

Education :

University of Cape Town School of Dance (1989-1991)