Performance Projects

Denise is a movement artist, choreographer, dancer, singer and mbira player with ten years experience performing and teaching traditional and contemporary pan-African dance.Co-founder of Tolo Ko Tolo fusion dance company and principle dancer in the international world music outfit, Baka Beyond. Recently a member of Sakoba Dance Theatre, Denise also performs with Spirit Talk Mbira and works as a solo artist and on various collaborative projects including the dance film Erw Dinmael and the issue based dance piece Obey the Wind in 2010.A recipient of one of ADAD’s Trailblazers fellowships and supported by Dance Bristol, Denise has trained in African dance in the UK, Ghana, Gambia, Senegal, Zimbabwe and with the Baka hunter gatherers in the Cameroonian rainforest. In 2006 Denise completed contemporary dance training. She is also a student of Aikido and has recently completed Helen Poynor’s Walk of Life movement training in non-stylized and environmental movement.