Lisa Wilson

Lisa Wilson is  Head of Dance in the Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is a dance educator at heart with over twenty five years of teaching dance at performing arts institutions and within communities around the world. 

She is a versatile dance practitioner with dance training in western and African/Caribbean dance techniques. She has been involved in Christian dance ministry since 1996 with the Praise Academy of Dance from Kingston, Jamaica. She has participated in numerous ICDF conferences as both delegate, workshop facilitator and academic seminar presenter. 

She completed her undergraduate degree in dance at the Wesley Institute for Ministry and the Arts in Sydney Australia (now Ekklesia College) and postgraduate studies at the University of Exeter, UK. She has served on the National Committee for CDF South Africa as Provincial Coordinator for the Western Cape and counts it all joy to combine faith, movement,  creative intellect and artistry as an embodied practice of surrender.

 

Elective Title: 

Jazz Fusion – suited for all ages but it will be of moderate-high intensity.

This workshop explores African-based movement and rhythms as contemporary expressions. It will fuse together voice, song, text, dance and storytelling to generate a movement experience layered with pan-African textures and sensibilities. 

YouTube link to Lisa Wilson’s WildFlowerAfrica Women of Worship Dance Project https://youtu.be/dt90j6Y_4zI?si=I6N9phwAHloUMzZU 

In this project six dance teachers collaborated in dance making and performance to honour our Creator, the land, each other, life itself, intergenerational and ecological ways of being.