Nosiphiwo Samente
Nosiphiwo Samente () is a dancer, dance teacher, facilitator and a choreographer.
Also found as Nosiphiwo Sament in some sources.
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Biography
Born in Cape Town, she matriculated from Cape Town’s Trafalgar High School in 2005, She then trained with the Jazzart dance company, becoming a professional company member in 2008, remaining with Jazzart until 2011. During this time she comtinuing her studies , completing a BA degree at the University of South Africa (UNISA) in 2009, with majors in psychology and arts and culture.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
After completing her training programme, she was offered a job to dance professionally with the Jazzart company for two years, dancing and performing in various theatre productions. Moving to Johannesburg, she then worked with Gregory Maqoma's company (Vuyani Dance Theatre) for two years before joining Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative.
She has had many opportunities to work with various international choreographers and has undertaken a number of other projects, such as being a facilitator in Outreach Programs, acting in TV series and so on.
Productions she has worked on include:
Indumba, Cargo: Precious (playing "Saartjie Baartman") , H28, DOLL, Where is Home?.
TO BE ADDED from the UNISA website at https://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/corporate/default/Unisa-History-and-Memory-Project/Personalities/All-personalities/Nosiphiwo-Samente:
Nosiphiwo Samente earned
Nosiphiwo Samente reflects a new generation of Unisa alumni: Internet- and social media-savvy, liberated, yet in sympathetic touch with South Africa’s past. One of her most acclaimed roles has been the iconic Saartjie Baartman, an early 19th-century Khoi woman who was shipped to Europe to serve in carnival freak shows as “The Hottentot Venus”, in the stage performance CARGO: Precious.
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Nosiphiwo was born in South Africa (Cape Town) and has been dancing and performing professionally for over 10 years now. She is a dancer, dance teacher, facilitator and a choreographer. She was trained for 3 years at Jazzart dance theatre, where she had the opportunity to study and graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the University of South Africa (UNISA). After completing her 3 years training program,she was offered a job to dance professionally with the company for 2 years and has danced and performed in various theatre productions.
She then moved to Johannesburg (SA) where she worked with Gregory Maqoma’s company (Vuyani dance theatre) for 2 years and has performed in various theatre productions with the company, she also had the opportunities to work with various international choreographers and was
Nosiphiwo then joined Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative for about 2 and a half years and has had the opportunity to work and be part of various Nosiphiwo is a passionate and creative person, who has found herself performing in various theatre productions, physical theatre, dance theatre works to plays and has had the opportunity to be a supportive actress on a South African television series and was also the head judge on a dance television program. She was also one of the top 16 finalist on SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE SA season 3. She is very passionate with working with kids, refugees and developing them and she has done and facilitated a lot of Outreach programs,mainly focusing in rural areas and disadvantaged areas.
Nosiphiwo has done a lot of cooperate work,choreographing for events, theatre productions and focusing on developing young upcoming artists and giving hope to them. She is a hard working artist and gives her entire self to a project and give outstanding results, she is very creative and compassionate and rise above challenges that are thrown at her.
