Nikki Jacobs and Trish Notcutt have worked together in Community Dance Programmes for over twenty years. Together they have formed The Dance Project to bring skills and opportunities to communities that lacked facilities, opportunities and suffered financial constraints.

In 1998 one of their pupils, Mercia Nkonyana(middle) joined Trish and Nikki on the teaching staff.

TRISH NOTCUTT is a qualified Dance teacher with the Teacher’s Diploma in teaching Dance from U.C.T. as well as the Advanced Teacher’s in Tap and Modern Dance.
She has23 years experience in Community work, where she has taught at CAFDA for 13 of those years and currently the Dance Project which is community based and which offers dance tuition in Contemporary, Modern, Tap, Hip Hop, Jazz and African Dance to all age groups.
Trish is qualified to teach dance as a matric subject. She is also a member of the SGB for Dance, which is responsible for setting the Unit Standards for the Tertiary qualification levels. Trish has choreographed many shows both for the professional theatre and for school productions, as well as children’s theatre at the Baxter and Artscape.
She has also successfully written six textbooks for the Dance Component of Arts and Culture.

NIKKI JACOBS is currently running The Dance Project with Trish whom she started her training with at aged 15 and still finds time to offer her teaching skills to the project, as well as running a very demanding job where she has progressed to being a Director in the company she works for.
Nikki has many years of professional dance experience behind her name and brings a wealth of  knowledge to the dancers when it comes to performance skills.

MERCIA NKONYANA also helps Trish run the project. She started dancing with Trish aged 10 and now teaches and choreographs for the team alongside being an efficient Personal Assistant at the company she works for.

CHARNÉ PALANYANDI who started her dancing career with Trish at the age of 10. Trish also helped her through Matric dance as a higher grade subject. Charné is still being trained by Trish both as a dancer and a teacher. Alongside her dancing she has worked her way to be a qualified radiographer and yet still finds time to give back to The Dance Project, both through her dancing talents and her gift of teaching the younger members of the team.