Consider dance an art on its own: Proud
Marketing Management at a local university, Muguhu said his career, spanning over a decRISING choreographer Proud Tatenda Muguhu ade, had assisted him through critical moments (pictured) has bemoaned the general treatment of his academic journey. of dance as a secondary art discipline that usu“When I got to Form 4 that is when I started ally comes as an afterthought yet it contributes choreographing wedding dances and got into immensely to the entertainment the industry professionally, that helped acaspheres. demically because it was at that time that my
The award-winning dancer’s parents could not a ord school fees so I used pro le has been growing in choreography money,” he said, adding that he what has seen him feature on paid for most of his A’ Level studseveral musicians’ music musicies.videos videos as well as dance cover videos At the moment Muguhu serves of hit songs that have amassed as director at Superstar Dance Chohundreds of thousands in reographers in addition to managviews on social media plating his side project Proud Choreforms like YouTube. ography, which specialises on wed
“Dancing is a well-paydings and tness. The nimble-footed ing job but so far we are not youngster hopes to leave a long lastgetting paid as we expect. ing mark in the industry.
People should take danc“Personally, I want to be one of the ers as artistes like singers, best choreographers in Zimbabwe. I actors, make-up artists want the nation to recognise my talent among others, because and creativity and as Superstar Dance we are all the same,” he Choreographers, our main goal is to have told StandardStyle. a dance group to help youths in the ghet
“They should considto who can dance but have no exposure,” er us when there are big functions. We he said. can go and perform on our own without comDrawing inspiration from God, his dance plementing a band because the arts industry group mates, Zoro Nhira, (aka Zororo Zumshould improve in that regard by giving us a ba) and Comic Pastor, Muguhu insists that chance to show that we can do it.” dancers can make a huge impact if they stay
According to Muguhu, not attaching enough focused. value to their work has also a ected the quality “When I started I used to dance for free and of what they produce. out of passion until I met people who taught me
“Most of us dancers are criticised for lacking how to take dancing as a business. They should creativity, but it is because most artistes who call never quit, they should know that their backus to work with them on videos do so a day be- ground cannot determine their future,” he said. fore the shoot or on the day of the shoot whereas they should give us a time to choreograph the song before performing,” Muguhu said.
“We end up going most of the time because we do not have an option as we need the money, but at the end of the day we are called out for lacking creativity.”
Muguhu opened up about
how a career that started o as a passion at church Sunday school has become the main source of income in his life.
“I started dancing when I was young and still in primary school. I used to dance in church where I joined a group called Kingdom Dance Music Ministry and that is where I grew up dancing,” he recalled.
Currently studying for a Bachelors’ Degree in