About
Buyile Toyvo Narwele is a professional dancer from Nyanga, Cape Town, South Africa. Buyile works as a consulting choreographer, dancer, and teaches other artistic freelance work that explores movement in AfroFusion, Neoclassical, and South African Street Style dance.Buyile came to dance through Dance For All's outreach programs and performed productions and in festivals in major cities across Southern Africa with iKapa Dance Theatre, Cape Town City Ballet, South African National Dance Trust, and Bovim Ballet. He has traveled and performed all over the world with Tui Cruises based in Berlin, Germany.You can sign up for classes today!
Experience
Trained in
• AfroFusion
• South African Street Style
• Neoclassical
• Contemporary
• BalletChoreography Work
• Gumboot
• Kwaito
• Contemporary
• CommercialChoreographers' Projects
Adele Blank, Veronica Paeper, David Krugal, Juanjo Hinojosa, Robin Van Wyk, Somizi Mhlamhlongo, Hope Maimane, Devon Marshbank, Fernanda Guimarães, and Theo Ndindwa.Other Work
• Stuntperson
• Model
• Dance Instructor
Offerings
Current.
Check back soon for new class offerings!Past
• SIDELINES (Sol Sound & Stage, Lawrence MA) Summer 2023
• Kwaito Summer Series at The Dance Complex (Cambridge, MA) Tuesdays, June 27th to August 15th, 6:30-7:30 in Studio 7• Kwaito Spring Series at The Dance Complex (Cambridge, MA)• South African Street Dance Initiative at El Taller (Lawrence MA) Feb to April 2023• Deborah Mason Performing Arts Center (Somerville, MA) Winter 2023• South African Street Dance Social at El Taller Bookstore & Café November 2022, Feb 2023, & March 2023.• South African Street Dance at The Dance Complex (Cambridge, MA) Fall 2022.
Reserve Class / Book a Private Lesson
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Shows & Perfomances
► "In Conjunction" at the ArtsAbility Festival, presented by UNMUTE Dance Theatre in partnership with Artscape Theatre Center (Cape Town, South Africa. December 2023).►Featured in PLAYFEST 6 at the Starlight Square Theater with the Asian American Playwright Collective (Cambridge, MA, USA. September 2023).► SIDELINES at Sol Sound & Stage (Lawrence, MA, USA. August 2023).► 2023 Lawrence Festival of the Arts (Lawrence, MA, USA. July 2023).► City of Beverly Juneteenth Celebration 2022 (Beverly, MA, USA. June 2023).► American Promise – A Multicultural, Multimedia Performance in May 2023, at the Firehouse Center for the Arts (Newburyport, MA, USA. May 2023.)► Traka at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, MA) May 2022. Read more about this project here.► Finding Home: Immigrant Stories and Music from Boston and Beyond 2022► Fleur Du Cap - Award Ceremony Performance at The Baxter Theatre Centre (Cape Town, South Africa) 2018.► Dancer at Seacheffs & Tui Cruises Arts & Entertainment Group, 2016, 2017, & 2018 (watch the showreel here)► Mozart and Salieri production with Marc Goldberg & Cape Town City Ballet at The Artscape Theatre & Opera House (2017)► A Spartacus of Africa with South African National Dance Trust (Johannesburg & Cape Town, South Africa) 2015► Private Presley: A Salute to the King production by Bovin Ballet Cape Town & Johannesburg, South Africa 2015.► The Merry Widow of Malagawi with Cape Town Opera and Wales Millennium Centre at The Artscape 2015► Miss Namibia Performance with Bovim Ballet (Windhoek, Namibia) 2014► Queen At The Ballet Production with Bovim Ballet 2015► Mzansi Cape Town International Salsa Festival 2013► Romeo & Juliet with Cape Town City Ballet 2009► Copelia with Cape Town City Ballet 2008► Baxter Dance Festival, Co-Choreographed and performed Ignite for 'Dance For All' (Cape Town, South Africa) 2007
Teaching & Volunteer Projects
Nyanga Arts Forum Community Outreach Project 2023Nyanga Hiking Club Volunteer & Head Facilitator (Western Cape, South Africa) 2021Dance Competition Facilitation for the Drug & Alcohol Awareness Campaign with the City of Cape Town & Western Cape Government 2014Cultural Dance Exchange with Mr. Bheki Ndlovu at Suede Productions (Khayelisha Township, South Africa) 2013
How did Buyile come to dance?
Dance For All
At age 11, Buyile started dancing in Nyanga and specialised in the Ballet Programme offered by Dance For All.Read more about the success story here.
iKapa Dance Theatre
Buyile moved to an apprenticeship at iKapa Dance Theatre. Shortly after his apprenticeship, he was promoted to be a Company Dancer.