Dressed in a floor-length purple dress and on the arm of dancer Muzi Shili, Sylvia Glasser (75) gyrates and bends to the rhythm as she nimbly dances across President Street in Newtown, Johannesburg, ...

It’s a bit unfair, since Glasser is hardly the stereotype of an aged matriarch. But in the athletic world of dance, a tiny industry with limited prospects, individuals seem to reach their sell-by date ...

They may be credited as choreographers but both Sylvia Glasser and Sbonakanliso Ndaba, in the Secrets and Journeys double-bill, can equally be described as healers as they dig deep into the human ...