Choreographer Gregory Maqoma Turns Traditional South African Movement Into Contemporary Western Concert Dance
"'He has coherently brought classical African dance into conversation with all that is contemporary,' said [South African dance scholar] Jay Pather, … long-established practices of Zulu, Xhosa and Sotho people, 'rituals and codes that are highly complex and have been passed on in highly sophisticated ways.' Mr. Maqoma, who is of Xhosa descent, doesn't deconstruct […]