From the Digital Stage
Freedom is…
Festivals | 01 August 2022
Who's Who
Maria da Luz Ghoumrassi
Dancer, choreographer, educator and movement director
Maria da Luz Ghoumrassi works through multidisciplinary arts to develop intercultural performance and has extensive experience working with a diversity of groups ranging from early years to older dancers, including performers and people with disabilities.
She was in the original cast of The Lion King and has performed with various companies including TV work. She has recently performed for Tate Modern and The London College of Fashion.
She has worked for Greenwich Dance for over 10 years as artistic director of our Performance Company for Adults, Lead artists for our Dance for Wellbeing programme, Maria also delivers professional and community classes.
www.daluzdance.com
Juwon Ogungbe
Juwon Ogungbe is a distinguished opera singer and composer, as well as a performer in a range of other genres. He has composed for the BBC, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Southbank Centre amongst many others.
Juwon’s operatic works have been in various stages of development at Opera North, Grimeborn Opera Festival (Arcola Theatre) and at the Dhow Countries Music Academy, Zanzibar.
King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba – Juwon’s most recent music theatre piece was premiered in 2019 and several of his new works have been publicly performed in 2020.