Haymich Olivier

Namibian dancer and choreographer Haymich Olivier, received his Bachelor degree at the University of Cape Town in 2008. After which he return to his hometown Windhoek, where he work as a dancer, choreographer, project manager and educator for more than 10 years before enrolling for a Masters program at the University of California, Los Angeles. As an active part of the Namibian Arts Industry, Olivier has done projects for the National Theatre of Namibia, Namibian Annual Music Awards, Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture as well as running his own dance company First Rain Dance Theatre. During this time he performed on a number of national and international platforms including Harare International Festival of the Arts (Zimbabwe), Baxter Contemporary Dance Festival (South-Africa) and Windhoek International Dance Festival. His work with young adults has rendered some groundbreaking dance art that is directed at creating awareness of social-economic conditions of marginalized people. As a popular Namibian choreographer Olivier has work with a wide spectrum of dancers ranging all ages from 3yrs to 50yr, it is his artistic philosophy to guide dancers to enhance their understanding of their own ability and give them the needed skill to better communicate and express their lived experience. Due to the lack of professionally trained dancers in Namibia, Haymich's work more often lead him to choreography, this has developed his artistry greatly as well as his leadership skills, however he continued to train his technical ability and completed a Ballet exam even after his studies at the University of Cape Town and was able to participate in training at the world famous L'ecole des Sable in Senegal.