Thamsanqa Majela is an artist, dancer and teacher from South Africa.
He studied dance and composition at the Tshwane University of Technology in South Africa. He later completed his training at the renowned P.A.R.T.S in Brussels, Belgium.
Between 2011 and 2014 Majela was a member of The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative. From 2014 to 2019, he toured as an ensemble member of Dance Factory with the acclaimed works of Dada Masilo, including Giselle, Carmen and Swan Lake.
In 2017, he collaborated with artists from Vienna on the short film A Last One in Color. Two years later, in 2019, he was invited as a guest artist to the Center for the Less Good Idea, curated by William Kentridge and Phala Ookeditse Phala.
Thamsanqa Majela has been working as an independent choreographer and dancer since 2021. During this time, he has realized international and local collaborations such as Don’t Let the Sun Set on You Here, Ditoro (Tanzania) and POP (a French collaboration). In 2022 he was an invited artist at the Artist Talk at Kampnagel in Germany. In 2023, he mentored young artists for a month as part of a mentoring program at Muda Africa in Tanzania.
In 2022, Thamsanqa Majela was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist Award in the dance category for his artistic work.