Company Members

Senior II

Pamela Atieno began her dance training with Mike Wamaya and Anna Nygh before becoming a gold scholarship student at DCK. She was featured on Al Jazeera news where she was seen by 12 million viewers. As a member of DCK Company she has danced many roles, including Dew Drop Fairy, Violet, Snow Crystal, Rat Princess, Spanish Chocolate and Lead Russian in The Nutcracker. Pamela was awarded a scholarship to the South Carolina Summer Dance Intensive with Susan Anderson and performed in the 2021 and 2022 Divinity Dance performances in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Rani Shah, 15, is a Grade 10 student at West Nairobi School. She has been a DCK student since 2014 and joined the Company in January 2018 as a Senior Apprentice. She has performed in several DCK shows including the debut Nutcracker in 2016, Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2019, Romeo & Juliet in 2020, Nutcracker in 2021 and as Step Sister in Cinderella in 2022. She also plays the Drums. In July 2019, she attended the Ballet Intensive Program at the University of South Carolina, USA and performed at the Artists for Africa Annual Gala.

Flora Liu, 16,has been dancing from the age of 5. She first started with DCK in 2015 and is now in Advanced I. She has performed in many recitals and shows, such as 2019’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a Wedding Guest, and in the 2021 Nutcracker as a Violet and Snowflake. She is a member of the Senior company and alongside ballet she takes Hip hop. Flora is currently a student at Braeburn High School in year 11.

Watiri Nduba, 18, is a home-schooler. She started ballet in 2008, has enjoyed Tap Dance and dances Hip Hop. In 2019 and 2022, she performed Hip Hop and ballet in Berlin, Germany. She joined Dance Centre Kenya in early 2020 and has done some teaching at DCK too. In DCK’s 2021 Nutcracker she danced as a Violet, a Snowflake and a Party Parent, and she was a Step sister in Cinderella. She enjoys music and plays violin, piano, ukulele, guitar and bass.

Catherine Abilla, 15, is in Year 11 at Braeburn High School. She began dancing at 3 years old, and joined DCK in 2016. She participates in Advanced I, Advanced Pointe, Advanced Pas De Deux and Gold Tap. She has performed in multiple shows, and had one of the lead roles in the Anniversary Gala, 2022. She trained at the South Carolina Dance Summer Conservatory, and performed at the Artists for Africa annual gala in 2019. She is an avid reader, and enjoys hockey, as well as computer science and graphic design.

Shamick Otieno, 18, is an 12th grade student at West Nairobi School. He takes Ballet, Hip hop and Contemporary and has been a DCK company member for seven years. He was awarded a merit on his Advanced II Ballet examination, which is the very final exam in the syllabus. Following three summers of attending the South Carolina Summer Dance Intensive on full scholarship, he spent the summers of 2021 and 2022 dancing with the professional contemporary company Divinity under the direction of Krissie Edwards in Utah, USA.

George Okoth, 18, attends 12th grade at West Nairobi School. George has attended the South Carolina Summer Dance Intensive twice on full scholarship, and spent the 2021 summer break performing with Divinity Dance Company in Utah, USA. He has danced featured roles in The Nutcracker including the title role in 2016, the Sugar Plum Cavalier in 2019 and the Snow Cavalier in 2021; Bottom in A Midsummer’s Night Dream; and the Summer Fairy Cavalier in Cinderella. He won best duet dancing Le Corsaire at the Nairobi Dance Festival.