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„Our aim is to unite the nation!“ This claim is an ambitious one, particularly when made in South Africa, a country riddled with problems of social segregation. Besides being an ambitious claim it can be regarded as strikingly peculiar in the context it was uttered, which in my case was the description of what a professional dance company is about. To me, dance isn´t among the activities that are commonly associated with the solution of serious social issues. Nonetheless, when Lwazi told me that the Kangaroo Zulu Dancers aim was to unite the nation, I didn´t have to ask what he meant. I welcomed this statement when I heard it. But not only did Lwazis statement made me happy and proud to participate in their noble purpose to unite the nation. I also had no doubt in my mind that they could actually and significantly participate in this colossal venture.

Finding and naming the actual mechanisms and forms that their dances contain, which can be described and experienced as „uniting people“, turned out to be the research question I took upon me to answer. I would welcome any interested people and constructive criticisms at my presentation of my endeavour to do so on the 20^th of May 2020.