Ntshadi Mofokeng

Ntshadi Mofokeng is a cultural worker who writes and curates, organises to support artists’ rights, and engages with cultural policy and diplomacy. She is contributing to the proliferation of narratives about and experiences of contemporary dance from Africa, as well as the performing arts more broadly. Her experience as an interdisciplinary arts administrator includes working with the Institute for Creative Arts at the University of Cape Town and Gregory Maqoma Industries as well as serving on the inaugural national steering committee of the Theatre and Dance Association (TADA). She has been selected as an International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) Global Fellow and the inaugural class of the Sustaining Theatre and Dance (STAND) Foundation Leadership Initiative. Prior to that, she served in various organising and management roles within Equal Education, a youth led social movement. She graduated cum laude from Bryn Mawr College with a BA in Political Science.

What drew you to the M.A. in Arts Politics:

The MA in Arts Politics will provide me with the scaffolding and vocabulary to interrogate prevailing practices in the arts, understand historical movements, and conduct comparative studies. I’m excited that this programme represents a space to reflect on and connect threads that have run through my work as well as to expand my thinking and imagination.