Garage Dance Ensemble d'Okiep

About

Garage Dance Ensemble is located in O’okiep in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. This arid province (one of 11 South African provinces) is the largest in the country (373 km² ) and also the least populated (1.3m). Along with Springbok, Nababeep, Concordia and Carolusberg, O’okiep lies within a once booming copper district, now long abandoned by the colonising British, the aftermath of which is clearly visible in the abandoned structures and mines, but even more clearly experienced in the grinding poverty and lack of prospects which is the legacy left to many of the indigenous communities.