Noira More Academy is an editorial magazine and creative hub for dancers, choreographers, and interdisciplinary artists. We document studio practice, rehearsal methodologies, and the conversations shaping the South African contemporary dance scene — from Cape Town studios to global stages.
Notes, observations and practical accounts from rehearsals, planning sessions and first-week experiments at Noira More Academy.
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Practical benefits that shape your training, your process, and your performance work — grounded in the studio, not in theory.
Weekly strength and mobility routines built for floor work, partnering, and long performance runs. You'll notice better recovery and fewer injuries within a month of consistent practice.
TrainingLearn how to turn personal memory and physical sensation into repeatable movement phrases. You'll leave each workshop with a documented score you can reuse in your own choreography.
Creative processSmall-group composition sessions where your work gets reviewed by artists who are currently making pieces for the South African stage. Expect specific notes, not generic praise.
MentorshipRegular showings and open studio nights that prepare you for the reality of presenting work. You'll build confidence in front of an audience before you step onto a festival stage.
PerformanceInterviews, festival coverage, and artist profiles that keep you informed about what's happening in contemporary dance across South Africa — and how it links to global movement trends.
CommunityNoira More Academy is built around the daily realities of dancers and choreographers. We offer structured training, rehearsal guidance and editorial coverage that help you refine your craft, document your process and connect with the wider contemporary dance community.
How open studio sessions turned into repeatable choreographic structures, with notes on notation and video documentation.
The choreographer talks about moving between Zulu dance training and contemporary vocabularies, and what that tension teaches.
Core stability, joint mobility and recovery routines built for floor work and partnering, with sample weekly schedules.
A practical breakdown of how a single hand movement becomes a full sequence, and where the score starts to drift.
Reflections on reviewing live performance, and how to write about work that exists only in the moment it is danced.