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Moya Michael

Moya Michael is a dancer, choreographer and one of the KVS faces. 

Moya Michael is a dancer, performer, and choreographer born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has danced with the likes of Akram Khan, Gregory Maqoma, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (Rosas), Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet (Eastman), Faustin Linyekula, David Hernandez, Mårten Spångberg, Keyon Gaskin and Jin Xing. Moya currently resides in Brussels, which is her base for creating her own work.

Moya is interested in ‘performing the self’ and developing projects with other artists and artistic fields and has an ongoing commitment to process and discourse.

She continues to evolve as a creative maker of live performances. It is in this manner that she has established a working relationship with KVS (The Royal Flemish Theatre in Brussels) as one of their artists. As a skilled performer, Moya is interested in all forms of expression and identity with the use of mixed mediums.

PHOTOS
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Performances by and with

  • It is like a Finger Pointing a Way to the Moon

    Moya Michael, Victoire Karera Kampire, Simon Thierrée, Joachim Ben Yakoub / KVS & WIELS
    Thu 13.02.2025 and Fri 14.02.2025
    In It is like the finger pointing to the moon Moya Michael is searching for the movement of different unyielding languages.
    13.02.2025
    and
    14.02.2025
    Tickets
    • 13.02.2025
      20:30 - 21:30
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Tickets
    • 14.02.2025
      20:30 - 21:30
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Tickets
    • 19.04.2024
      20:30 - 22:00
      PREMIERE
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event
    • 20.04.2024
      20:30 - 22:00
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event
    • 24.04.2024
      20:30 - 22:00
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event
    • 25.04.2024
      20:30 - 22:00
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event
    • 30.05.2024
      20:30 - 21:30
      Stamsund Theaterfestival, Norway
      Teater Nor stor
      Past event

  • Double bill Echo / Random Goodbyes

    Moya Michael, David Hernandez & Jin Xing Dance Theater Shanghai/Paris
    Wed 07.02.2024 and Thu 08.02.2024
    Random Goodbyes is a collaboration between Moya Michael, David Hernandez and Jin Xing Dance Theatre that opens a window into a landscape full of intermingling lives and cultures.
    KVS, Brussels
    KVS BOL
    07.02.2024
    and
    08.02.2024
    Past event
    • 07.02.2024
      20:00 - 22:00
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOL
      Past event
    • 08.02.2024
      20:00 - 22:00
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOL
      Past event

  • Coloured Swan 3: Harriet's reMix

    Moya Michael / AnAku & KVS
    Thu 24.09.2020 - Sun 22.01.2023
    The performance goes deep into a multitude of themes, posing questions about spirituality and displacement and the three-unity – an exploration of the non-linearity of time.
    24.09.2020
    -
    22.01.2023
    Past event
    • 24.09.2020
      19:00 - 20:00
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event
    • 24.09.2020
      20:00 - 21:00
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event
    • 24.09.2020
      21:00 - 22:00
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event
    • 25.09.2020
      19:00 - 20:00
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event
    • 25.09.2020
      20:00 - 21:00
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event
    • 25.09.2020
      20:00
      FREE LIVESTREAM VIA 247.KVS.BE
      At home, Earth
      Online
      Past event
    • 25.09.2020
      21:00 - 22:00
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event
    • 06.09.2021
      20:30
      Nederlands Theater Festival
      C-mine Cultuurcentrum, Genk
      Grote zaal
      Past event
    • 07.09.2021
      20:30
      Nederlands Theater Festival
      C-mine Cultuurcentrum, Genk
      Grote zaal
      Past event
    • 10.09.2021
      20:00 - 21:00
      THEATERFESTIVAL
      De Singel, Antwerpen
      Theaterstudio
      Past event
    • 11.09.2021
      20:00 - 21:00
      THEATERFESTIVAL
      De Singel, Antwerpen
      Theaterstudio
      Past event
    • 29.03.2022
      20:30 - 21:30
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event
    • 30.03.2022
      20:30 - 21:30
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event
    • 28.05.2022
      20:30
      Stamsund Theaterfestival, Norway
      Teater Nor stor
      Past event
    • 20.01.2023
      20:00 - 21:00
      PuSh Festival, Vancouver
      Orpheum Annex
      Past event
    • 21.01.2023
      20:00 - 21:00
      PuSh Festival, Vancouver
      Orpheum Annex
      Past event
    • 22.01.2023
      20:00 - 21:00
      PuSh Festival, Vancouver
      Orpheum Annex
      Past event

  • Mailles

    Dorothée Munyaneza / Compagnie Kadidi & Mascaret Production & Kaaitheater
    Wed 16.11.2022 and Thu 17.11.2022
    Dorothée Munyaneza interweaves the intimate journeys of six female, Black and African(-descended) artists through choral pieces and visual elements
    KVS, Brussels
    KVS BOL
    16.11.2022
    and
    17.11.2022
    Past event
    • 16.11.2022
      20:00 - 21:00
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOL
      Past event
    • 17.11.2022
      20:00 - 21:00
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOL
      Past event

  • Outwalkers

    Moya Michael, Camilo Mejía, Holland Andrews, Loucka Fiagan / KVS
    The sacredness of coming together
    Thu 10.02.2022 - Fri 14.10.2022
    KVS, Brussels
    KVS BOX
    10.02.2022
    -
    14.10.2022
    Past event
    • 10.02.2022
      20:30 - 21:30
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event
    • 11.02.2022
      20:30 - 21:30
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event
    • 12.02.2022
      20:30 - 21:30
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event
    • 13.10.2022
      20:30 - 21:30
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event
    • 14.10.2022
      20:30 - 21:30
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event

  • COLOURED SWAN: KHOISWAN + ELDORADO

    Moya Michael, Tracey Rose, David Hernandez
    DOUBLE BILL
    Tue 15.10.2019 and Wed 16.10.2019
    A hybrid of dance, theatre, music and image – just as mixed as its makers
    KVS, Brussels
    KVS BOX
    15.10.2019
    and
    16.10.2019
    Past event
    • 15.10.2019
      18:00 - 20:45
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event
    • 16.10.2019
      20:00 - 22:30
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event

  • Coloured Swan 1: KhoiSwan

    Moya Michael & Tracey Rose
    Tue 06.11.2018 and Wed 07.11.2018
    In her series Coloured Swans, she questions how our various imposed identities influence our bodies and how we move, speak, sing.
    KVS, Brussels
    KVS BOX
    06.11.2018
    and
    07.11.2018
    Past event
    • 06.11.2018
      20:30
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event
    • 07.11.2018
      20:30
      KVS, Brussels
      KVS BOX
      Past event

State of the Union Theaterfestival 2022

Tijdens de opening van het TheaterFestival liet Moya Michael zich vergezellen door Junior Akwety en Johanne Saunier. Samen brachten ze de State of the Union als performance. Lees hieronder de volledig…
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Podcast KVS en route: Coloured Swan 3 Harriet's reMix

For this third part of the Coloured Swans series, choreographer Moya Michael works with four young multidisciplinary artists with mixed backgrounds from the African diaspora: Loucka Fiagan, Oscar Cass…
Podcast

Don’t ask what it’s about, ask why it’s there.

In response to the dance performance Coloured Swan 3: Harriet's reMix, researcher and author Sibo Kanobana wrote an article on what this performance is about. Or not?
Column