ABOUT ME

I am Motsau, a multidisciplinary performer, emerging choreographer, director and writer from Ekurhuleni. My work lives at the intersection of identity, movement and story, where the personal and the political, the ancestral and the contemporary, converge.

 

2025, I premiered my debut independent solo work State of Numb at the National Arts Festival Fringe, where I was honoured with a Silver Ovation Award. This marked a defining moment in my career: a reclamation of voice and a bold step into authorship as a choreographer and storyteller. My work is deeply rooted in the lived and inherited experiences of Black queer, gender-expansive lives, womanhood and the complexities of humanness. I create to echo both the spoken and unspoken voices of the living and the passed. For me, the body is an archive, a battleground and a canvas of these stories.

 

My performance and creative training spans institutions like Sibikwa Arts Academy, East Rand School of the Arts, and Vuyani Dance Theatre, grounding my practice in both traditional discipline and contemporary experimentation. I’ve performed in acclaimed productions like MADHOUSE, SPIRIT HAVERING, BLACK, FULL MOON, and Shaka iLembe, and worked on powerful projects such as Step Afrika’s 30th celebration and Vincent Mantsoe’s Metso ea Koba Repertoire intensive and performance.

 

Beyond the stage, I expand my practice into creative direction. I recently collaborated as the Creative Show Director and Choreographer for an independent fashion house House of Myeza’s runway show “GENESIS”, bridging dance, fashion and storytelling in a live art space. My original plays UKUPHI and AT THE KINGDOM’S GATE further explore my evolving voice as a writer-director dedicated to evocative African narratives.

 

Whether I’m working with movement, text, sound or design. I aim to build experiences that are visceral, vulnerable and necessary. I do not just create performance, I craft tapestries of becoming, where stories breathe and bodies speak.