Gerard Bester
Gerard Bester (19**-) Dancer, actor, choreographer, teacher.
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Biography
He was born in Hillbrow at the Queen Victoria maternity home.
Training
Graduated from Wits, Studied in London at the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance
Career
For 14 years he worked for the Outreach Foundation and for 12 of those years he was based at the Hillbrow Theatre. In Windybrow’s heyday in the early 1990s, Bester also taught at the Ishashalazi Drama School based at Windybrow.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Gerard has both choreographed and danced in the Dance Umbrella festival and the Grahamstown Festival. He was assistant director and choreographed for Take the Floor. He performed in The Sneeze and The Threepenny Opera.
In 2022, Bester was appointed Head of the Windybrow Arts Centre.
Awards, etc
Sources
Take the Floor programme, 1994
Ufrieda Ho. 'New chief aims to breathe new life into Jozi's historic Windybrow Arts Centre'. Sunday Times. 10 April 2022 .
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