Mzansi’s finest and yet best dancer; Paul Modjadji is headed to the USA this week to join a series of celebrations in honor of South Africa’s Freedom Month commemoration.
Modjadji, popularly known for his stint on soapie Backstage and choreographing SA’s first dance film Hear Me Move, is an award winning dancer and choreographer whose work has cemented him as an ambassador of dance and youth excellence for South Africa. Last year President Barack Obama honored Modjadji with a Mandela Washington Young African Leaders Award, while the South African Institute for Advancement awarded him with an Inyathelo Philanthropy award in the same year (for his efforts towards the promotion and empowerment of the youth using the arts).
As part of his week-long official visit to the US, Modjadji will kick off his engagements with a performance at the biggest South African gathering in the USA, the South African Freedom Day picnic celebrations, in Washington DC, an event that has been running for over 20 years, and sees scores of Africans and South Africans living in the diaspora converge to celebrate South Africa’s freedom and democracy.
Modjadji will also use the time to attend screenings of Hear Me Move, ahead of its US release date in October, and attend to schools speaking engagements to speak about South Africa and her young democracy amongst some of his assignations.
