Mamela Nyamza is a South African choreographer and art activist. Originally trained in ballet, she pursued dance at the Alvin Ailey School in New York. Her groundbreaking works The Dying Swan (1998), Hatched (2007) and The Meal (2012) are autobiographical pieces that tackle the classical genre of dance by deconstructing the traditional methods and logic of ballet and contemporary dance. Her other works, BLACK PRIVILEGE, PEST CONTROL, GROUNDED, and HATCHED ENSEMBLE, stand against the injustices faced by women and the miscarriage of justice within arts institutions. Nyamza’s ultimate vision is to make dance the genre of performance art that conveys body politics on all social issues, not to entertain but to “edutain”. For this purpose, she created her own non-profit company, MAMELA’s ARTISTIC MOVEMENT.