Chomee

Thulisile Madihlaba

Her birth name is Thulisile Madihlaba, she was born on the 6^th of October  1986 in meadowlands, Soweto, in South Africa. Well this young lady started off as a dancer at the tender age of just 9 years old for an artist named Arthur Mafokate. She spent most of her years as a dancer.  She eventually started her own dance crew called Dance Divas. She is currently a judge of a dance show called ‘Turn it out’. They were doing good, they were seen as South Africa’s version of the spice girls, which I completely disagree with.

chomee rocking the stage

Chomee came in the industry with her outfits and caught the attention of quite a number of males and young girls.

Yes I am saying it, Chomee is a very good dancer. Then she went and ventured out to singing. Some of her better-known songs include Jiva Sexy, Dlala nge Figure, Cried all my Tears, Uthando Lwakho, Stranger, Tell me what you want, Ziyawa La, This is for the ladies and Jika Sik'bone.. Her choreography for her music videos was good, but Chomee as a singer? Well people all have their different opinions.



chomee and her dancers



Well she is very good on stage, has the energy  and can get the crowd pumped up, but can she truly sing?

So You Think You Can Dance?

Do you truly think you can dance?  If so then by all means go try out for the Dance competition TV show. In South Africa we have our version of this show which is doing pretty well. We have only gone through two seasons but it is quite visible that it will be a great success. My one main insight on this matter is that the show is for a variety of dance styles but it seems like the same person won both  seasons.

Season 1

Elizma when she won SYTYCD South Africa,season 1

In the 1^st season we got Elizma Wildschutte a 31 year old female from Cape Town, South Africa. Elizma is a freelance dancer who specialises in Contemporary dance. She started training in ballet and modern jazz at age 5 with C.A.F.D.A school of dance under the direction of Wendy Abrahams. She trained there 'till matric after which I joined Jazz art Dance Theatre’s training programme for 3 years. She then left for Johannesburg at the end of 2002 where she freelanced for 5 years doing various corporate gigs and back up dancing for local artists.

Season 2

Lulu when she won SYTYCD South Africa,season 2

Now came the 2^nd season where we saw Lulu Mlangeni taking it all. Lulu is 25 year old female from Soweto in Johannesburg, South Africa. Lulu is a freelance dancer who specialises in Contemporary, She started dancing in Soweto (where she lives) in a community dance group doing modern dancing. Later she got introduced to contemporary in 2004. She has worked with the most prominent choreographers in South Africa such as Gregory Maqoma, Nelisiwe Xaba, P.J Shabaga, James Ngcobo etc. She has toured nationally and internationally (including Germany, Tanzania, Mexico, Brazil, Paris, Amsterdam etc.).

Elizma Wildshutte

Here you see the pictures of the two dancers and you can see the similarity between them. But this is only just the visual similarities, after going in depth of research about these two dancers I noticed other similarities in how they carry themselves and their dance styles.

Lulu Mlangeni

For a dance show that prides themselves in the variety in dance styles this I find weird. Not saying that these two dancers weren’t good just that I’m sure some of you guys had your favourite dancer. Which one was your favourite dancer?

Luthando TJ Mthembu

Before I start I would love to apologize for not blogging last week, but it being the Easter weekend I got caught up between my promotion job and being at church the rest of the time.

This week’s blog is about Luthando Mthembu, better known as TJ, a very talented young man that is 22 years of age. TJ was born and raised in Durban, well TJ is not only just a dancer. He also Raps, Sings, does Photography and models  mainly he deals with media.

TJ starting rapping since 2005 and hasn’t stopped since. He loves rapping and in my opinion is good at it. Being the good rapper that he was he didn’t get noticed by rapping. He was and still is known in Durban as 1 of the good Krumpers that Durban has to offer. He got inspired to start dancing from the movie ‘You Got Served’ and since then he has been in love with dancing. TJ doesn’t just Krump  he is a dancer in all aspects he also break danced at some point in his life.

TJ started  dance crews which did
well but because loyalty is very rare
 with young dancers some of those
crews fell through, but that didn’t
stop him from his love of dance.
His experience with all these different
 dancers has taught him a lot about the
 world of dancing.

TJ doesn’t just want dancing to be all he does in life (don’t  get me wrong, he loves it and has a great passion for it) which is why he got into modelling and photography. I guess you can say that he is a jack of all trades. He is a part of a dance company called Break Thru Dance Company BTDC in Durban, he is a dancer there uplifting the youth in dance and making the people around him understand more on Krumping. I have a feeling everyone will be seeing more on TJ as he has quite a bright future.

TJ behind the lense of his camera