Ayoba Africa dance showcase
Despite a hitch in venue, dancers perform to a packed hall.
The Ayoba Africa dance showcase, hosted by Move and Beat Dance Studios, was held with great success at Maragon School hall on 25 October.
Planning for the show started in June when Ursula Ludick and Landi-Lee Oberholzer, owners of the two respective dance studios, paid the deposit to hire Centenary Hall in Krugersdorp, where the event was held last year.
On 24 October, the day before the event, Ludick and Oberholzer went to go set up the hall before the dancers arrived for the dress rehearsal. When they got there they found other people occupying the venue. The hall was double booked and no longer available for the dance showcase.
Luckily for the dance studios, Maragon School in Ruimsig stepped in and said they could use the school hall for the evening.
“We had more than a hundred young dancers who have rehearsed for months on this project,” said Oberholzer. “Some parents pulled their children out and we lost their business. We had to rearrange everything and phone all our clients to let them know about the sudden change in venue.”
All ended well as doting parents packed the school hall and cheered loudly as the young dancers, some as young as four-years-old, danced to the sounds of Miriam Mbeka’s Pata Pata, hits of The Lion King and other Disney classics.
The Centenary Hall in Krugersdorp has promised to reimburse Ludick and Oberholzer as well as pay damages and loss of revenue.
