Bukhosibakhe Kelvin Khoza is a performer and pantsula, and is the Junior Cinematographer and Editor for The Centre for the Less Good Idea.

Growing up in Vosloorus, Johannesburg, Khoza ventured into dance in 2011, experimenting with tap, gumboot, and contemporary pantsula for dance outfits and collectives such as Vusi Arts Projects (VAP). In 2019, Khoza performed with VAP at The Centre for the Less Good Idea in various iterations, one of them seeing him dancing in accompaniment to a performance lecture by founder of The Centre for the Less Good Idea, William Kentridge. It was here where Khoza met The Centre’s Director of Cinematography, Noah Cohen, expressed his interest in camera work, and has been shadowing and working alongside Cohen since.

At The Centre, Khoza works primarily as a junior cinematographer while also learning basic directing and editing skills, and the art of working alongside the various artists and collaborators he films. With a rootedness in dance and performance, Khoza is acutely aware of what takes place in the body of a performer on stage and it is this proximity to performance that lends him a keen and empathetic eye behind the camera.

In addition to documenting and archiving the various creative processes that take shape at The Centre, Khoza is interested in harnessing the minutiae of performance through film – the slight gestures and facial expressions that might be lost on a live audience, but which can be harnessed and expanded upon through the documentary tool of the camera.

PHOTOGRAPHER | Zivanai Matangi