07/10/2019
Eswatini takes part in international social dance festival!
Bailamos Dance Studio, producers of Let’s Dance Eswatini and founders of the Eswatini Social Dance Movement which promotes social dances like salsa, kizomba, tango and other styles in the Kingdom, were invited to teach at the Kaya International Dance Festival in Maputo Mozambique September 26-29 in Maputo.
Social dance festivals and congresses take place all over the world and attract hundreds and thousands of people who are interested and love dancing. Kaya Festival, in its third edition is one of several international social dance festivals in Africa, and had teachers from 7 countries from Africa, North America and Europe and participants from all over Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia and other countries. This was the first time that Eswatini has been invited to teach at a social dance festival.
Ncamiso Dlamini and Suzan Esteves were the teachers who were invited, and together with other Swati dancers represented Eswatini in Mozambique. “This was a great milestone. We have been promoting social dance as a lifestyle in Eswatini since 2014, and thanks to the organizers of Kaya Festival, we were able to show other countries that we also have something to offer dancers from other countries. Social dancing is global and that is part of what the Kaya Festival wants to promote, that we are one community coming together from different places. It was an honour to be a part of it.”
