2018 marks 40 years since Moving into Dance (MID) was founded in Sylvia ‘Magogo’ Glasser’s garage as a way to provide dance training to youth in underprivileged communities and equip them with the skills to overcome their socio-economic circumstances. Today, MID is a trailblazing, nationally acclaimed, professional dance company and accredited training organisation that has had a major impact on sociocultural transformation and the economic empowerment of South African youth. Forty years is an incredible milestone, particularly in the arts sector, and has been achieved through the organisation’s constant striving for excellence, its extraordinarily talented and dedicated dancers, passionate support staff and generous funders such as RMB. Creative Feel spoke to CEO of MID, Nadia Virasamy, and Head of Social Investment at RMB, Yvette Nowell, to find out a bit more.
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Eugene Mashiane and Teboho Letele in Passage of Rites choreographed by Sylvia Glasser and performed at MID’s 40th anniversary. PHOTO Herman Verwey 42 / Creative Feel / November 2018
