I live in Makhaza in Khayelitsha, I am 22 and I live with both parents and my sister and brother.

I love dancing, that’s how I express my feelings. My soul talks through my body. I like to work together with others and to communicate so we can talk as one people. I like to create something which gives people surprise and magic.

I am also known as Lolly and am 22 years old.

I can say dance is my born ability and it works through my body and soul.

Dance is not a job.

In me, it is a calling.

I live in Makhaza in Khayelitsha, I am 22 and I live with both parents and my sister and brother.

I love dancing, that’s how I express my feelings. My soul talks through my body. I like to work together with others and to communicate so we can talk as one people. I like to create something which gives people surprise and magic.

I am 25 years old and passed matric in 2011. I am a musician. I love dance and I love music, it’s what I get up for every day.

One day I will be a well known professional dancer. I want to achieve this not only for myself but for my community. I want to show them that anything is possible.

I am living my dream. Now I can be someone that others can look up to.

I am 23 years old and I’m a traveller on this journey with no destination. I use dance as a tool of communication to express emotions and to transform society to see dance as a career. I dance to bring out the inner person, inspire and to educate.

When I dance I speak the unspoken language that only the body can tell.

I live in Makhaza in Khayelitsha and I am 21 years old. I am a dancer at Indoni Dance Arts and Leadership Academy. I lover to draw and I’m good at it. I love people and I love to laugh.

My dream is to become a professional dancer and a dance teacher. I want to inspire the whole country to grow at their own things, in the way I have been inspired.

This is a good time and in this project I have put my full focus into my training and by working with Indoni we are one family.

I am 24 years old. Through dancing and performing, I get what i have been longing for. I am proud to say that I am with my life where i want to be.

What I love about dance is that I get to minister and touch a lot of people.

My dream is to one day take the skills I am acquiring, to young people where there is little hope in their lives and help them to have a sense of ability when they perform to people.

I am 21 years old and been training as a dancer for eight months.

When I perform, I always want to to share my heart, my pain, my story, my joy, my everything. That is how I communicate with my audience.

I am 20 years old. I started dancing at school. My other passion is to be a rapper.

I wish to use my skills to bring change and positivity to others, so that they can change their lives to have positive minds and actions.

I was born in Namibia, and I am 22 years old. My dream is to be a performer and to travel the world, sharing the love of what I am doing across the world.

I work everyday, despite my difficulties, because I know that I can do this. I was born for a reason.

What I love about dance is that I get to minister and touch a lot of people.

My dream is to one day take the skills I am acquiring, to young people where there is little hope in their lives and help them to have a sense of ability when they perform to people.

I am 21 years old. I have a dream to become a top dancer, worldwide. I have had to convince my family of this dream, but now they have seen me perform, they are supporting me.

I know I can do it.

I grew up in Khayelitsha and I am 19 years old. I fell in love with dance in high school.

Even though my real goal is to be a physiotherapist, I am learning so many skills through dance and performance, that I am sure I will get where I want to be.

I am 21 years old staying in Khayelitsha Makhaza.

Dance is my passion and it has become one of the art forms that I love because it heals my spirit.

My late brother used to say dance is not a career but a calling.

I’m 23 years old staying in Khayelitsha.

I dance to equip myself with skills, so that when I open my dance company one day, I know how to do things.

I’m a 21-year old staying in Khayelitsha Makhaza.

I am a first-year student at Indoni Dance Arts and Leadership Academy.

I’m 25 years old from Worcester.

I dance because it is part of my lifestyle and when I dance I feel free; it feels like I can do everything.

I am 20 years old living in Gugulethu also a student at Indoni,

I dance because I want to address what we humans face daily.

I’m 21 and living at Old Crossroad, the youngest daughter from 5 kids.

I am a young passionate dancer who loves dancing and learning more daily.

I believe that with hard work, discipline and determination, nothing is impossible.

I am a 23-year old staying in Kraaifontain.

I dance to tell my people’s stories in the language that speaks to them.

I am 19 years of old, I love to sing and act in stage plays my favourite sport is netball.

I am 19 years old, born in Nyanga but now staying in Kraaifontein. My hobbies are: to sing, drama and watch soccer.

I am 20 years old. I was born and raised in Cape Town (Phillipi Township) and my favourite sport is athletics – long distance running – to be specific.

I am 27 years of age. I love to dance and I am a Fashionista – setting trends is my ‘thing’.