Global Instructors

Haymich Olivier is a Namibian dancer and choreographer. He graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Diploma in Dance Teaching and an Honors Degree in Choreography during 2008. Since then Haymich prepared numerous choreographic works for the National Theatre of Namibia, Bank Windhoek Arts Festival and College of The Arts (Windhoek, Namibia). In 2010 along with fellow Namibian dancers he started First Rain Dance Theatre (FRDT), while fully operational FRDT did community outreach work by training young dancers and employing them on a freelance basis. He was assistant Choreographer for the Namibian Annual Music Awards for 3 years and won Best Supporting Actor in a Theatre Play during the 2012 Namibia National Film and Theatre Awards. From 2017 to 2018 he served on the Executive Committee of the Windhoek International Dance Festival, and in 2019 was selected to be the main choreographer for the Namibian Annual Music Awards. In June 2023 he graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a M.F.A degree. He is currently employed as dance lecturer at the College of the Arts in Windhoek, Namibia where he teaches Contemporary Dance, Choreography and Dance Teaching Method. During his graduate studies Haymich developed his thesis choreography entitled: mask-Q-line: Der Tisch. This dance work is an inquiry into ideas of masculinity as experienced by the dancers and the choreographer and deeply influenced by the artist experience of growing up in the Apartheid era of Namibia and South Africa. Furthermore Haymich is interested in the body’s response to trauma, ways to develop movement dynamic that are not based on traditional technique training as well as the movement language developed by older more mature dancing bodies.