GREGORY MAQOMA

An internationally acclaimed dancer, choreographer, stage director, teacher and author, he became interested in dance in the late 1980s. In 1990 he joined the Moving into Dance company, where he became associate artistic director in 2002. He studied at the Performing Arts Research and Training School in Belgium, under the direction of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and in 1999 founded the Vuyani Dance Theatre company. He has collaborated with leading choreographers and stage directors, including Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, James Ngcobo as well as with the London Sinfonietta. In 2010 he choreographed the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup in Soweto, and that same year choreographed Hugh Masekela’s musical Songs of Migration. In 2018 he collaborated with William Kentridge as a choreographer and performed in Kentridge’s music-theatre production The Head & the Load, which premiered at Tate Modern in London. He has received numerous distinctions, including the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, awarded by the French
Government in 2017.