Sylvia magogo glasser biography

Sylvia Glasser (born 1940) is a South African dancer and choreographer known as a pioneer of Afrofusion, a dance genre that combines African culture with Western modern dance.

She served as founding director of the influential dance company Moving into Dance from 1978 to 2013.

Early life and education

Sylvia Glasser was born into a white Jewish family in Pietersburg, now Polokwane, South Africa, in 1940.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

She moved to England to study dance at the London College of Drama and Dance, where she graduated in 1963.^[2] She later obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, in 1973; pursued further studies in anthropology at Witwatersrand in the late 1980s; and graduated with a master's in dance from University of Houston–Clear Lake in the United States in 1997.^[2][4][6]

Career

Returning to South Africa from the U.K., Glasser establ