Bontle Modiselle

Bontle Modiselle is a South African dancer, choreographer, educator and media artist who has brought township-rooted social and popular dance vocabularies to film, television and mass-participation performance. Born in Soweto in 1990, Modiselle trained and worked across dance, media and performance from the late 2000s, building professional experience within South Africa's popular-music ecosystem through music videos and live-entertainment work.

Her screen breakthrough came through the 2014 South African dance film *Hear Me Move*, in which she played Khanyi. The film uses dance crews and competition as its dramatic world, and her performance connected her kinetic presence with acting and broader media work. She received an Africa Movie Academy Award supporting-actress nomination associated with the role.

Modiselle expanded into television while continuing to choreograph, with documented credits including choreography for *Lip Sync Battle Africa*, the 2016 MTV Africa Music Awards and major concert productions. These assignments required translating club and social-dance vocabulary into camera-aware ensemble staging while preserving its rhythmic character. She has also worked as a presenter, extending her dance-informed media presence across multiple platforms.

Through classes, workshops and studio work, Modiselle has framed dance as both a professional discipline and an accessible form of cultural participation. Her choreography emphasizes repeatable phrases with clear accents and level changes, enabling individual interpretation within ensemble unity.

On August 18, 2022, Modiselle and organizer Quintus Jansen achieved the Guinness World Record for the largest amapiano dance in Soweto. Modiselle choreographed and taught a five-minute dance performed to a specially created song by Alfa Kat, with 252 participants. The event exemplifies her practice of making choreography legible and shareable at crowd scale, connecting local genre knowledge with mass-participation performance.