OUR BOARD
Dr. Gerard M. Samuel
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Gerard is an Associate Professor: University of Cape Town, Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies and Head of CTDPS Dance Section. He is the Convener: Post Graduate studies in Dance, Editor: South African Dance Journal, and Chair of Confluences a biennial, international dance conference hosted by UCT.
During the Apartheid era he performed with the NAPAC Ballet Company and The Playhouse Dance Company in Durban. He held senior management posts for The Playhouse Company, until 2006. His notable choreographies include Prabhati and The Man I Love. He received the Durban Theatre Awards in 2006 for The Sound of Music.
Gerard has produced Place of Grace, a dance film in 2011. He is an advocate of disability arts in South Africa and in Copenhagen.His obtained his PhD for a thesis entitled - Dancing the Other in South Africa from UCT, in 2016 in which it was announced that “ Gerard Samuel’s thesis makes a highly significant intervention in Dance and Performance Studies in terms of its original argument about how the category of ‘age’ is used [as] part of ‘othering’ process… coining the term ‘body-space’ as a theoretical tool to observe bodies and dancing as states of becoming”.
Andrew Gilder:
Andrew Gilder trained at UCT School of Dance in the early 1990s and danced professionally for The Playhouse Dance Company, in his hometown of Durban.
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Under the Artistic Directorship of Mark Hawkins the Company represented a unique artistic and choreographic flowering for most of the 1990s driven by a broad philosophy of dance and performance and diminishing budgets. This meant that Andrew was able to carve a career as both performer and choreographer dancing lead and sub-lead roles in a wide variety of new and repertoire works, while also creating pieces for the ensemble.
Andrew is SAIBC Chair and is a leading South Africa climate change lawyer.
Lucky Dinake
Lucky has had a great passion for the arts, particularly performing arts, and the promotion of artistic endeavour from an early age.
This passion saw him become a member of the Section 79 Portfolio Committee for Sports Heritage Arts and Culture; and the Standing Committee for Gender Children Youth and Persons with Disabilities, in the Legislature of the City of Ekurhuleni, where he has exercised executive oversight and has consistently worked toward the promotion of the arts and ensuring accessibility of diverse art forms to all people.
He is a strong believer in the nation-building and healing power of artistic expression.
Boniswa Pezisa
For the past 30 years, Pezisa’s raison d'être has been giving brands social currency.
A creative activist, transformation coach, social transformer with a marketing and creative career spanning over 30 years of building and turning of brands around, giving them the spark, the emotional energy required to connect with their audiences and amplifying their functional ability to take their rightful place in the marketing and brand stratosphere.
Mutual Beneficiation is one of Pezisa’s core values, to this regard Pezisa shares her experience by giving her time and by serving and chairing various boards - the Association of Communication and Advertising, The Loeries Creative Awards, The Advertising Standards Authority, Common Purpose South Africa and the Shout Foundation just to name a few of the organisations she has served.
Pezisa, is the 2020 Loeries Hall of Fame Inductee, the current Jury Chair for the Pendoring Indigenous Creative Awards and the Executive Director of Mediology South Africa.
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