Roodepark street dancers shine
Roodepark's Contemporary Street Dance Group was started in 2009 and consists of three different street styles.
Roodepark’s Street Dancers participated in the Tshwane Youth Arts Festival 2014 at the State Theatre Opera Stage in Pretoria recently.The Tshwane Youth Arts Festival, founded in 1995, is an annual show case of the visual and performing arts among school-going children from pre-primary to Grade 12. Each year, the organisers are in awe of the creativity, energy, enthusiasm and commitment shown by the pupils and their teachers, and express their appreciation to the community, as well as to all the principals, parents and other volunteers and supporters who help to make it possible to stage a festival of this magnitude, standard and popularity.
Roodepark’s Contemporary Street Dance Group was formed in 2009 and consists of three different street dance styles, being the Sbhujwa dance, Kwassa kwassa dance and the Hip-Hop dance.
Sbhujwa dancing was invented by young experimental dancers in the dusty streets of Soweto. Sbhujwa means being stylish and trendy in the way you dance and dress.
Kwassa kwassa is a dance rhythm that originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The hips move back and forth while the hands follow the hips. This is hip-hop dance, a dance style inspired by complex rhythms and the down-to-earth movement style of African dancing.
Choreography is done by the dancers themselves. “We are proud of Roodepark’s dancers. Our children are our future,” says Chris Coetzee, deputy principal of the school.
