Zoyi Lindiwe Muendane
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Zoyi Lindiwe Muendane was born on 1993, 4 May in Ithaca, New York to a Zambian/ South African mother, Tshidi Zamiwe Tembo, and a Mozambican father, Mendis Eddie Muendane.
Being a third culture kids didn't come easy. She could never truly fit in until she found dance. This was a way of communicating where she never received the question of "Where you from?", due to her accent.
Her mother, class of '76 who were demonstrating their rights in the Sharpville Soweto uprising was finally coming home. In 1999 the first place Zoyi called home was Orange Farm. Her aunts and cousins looked after her as her mother was getting situated in her new job. This is where she got introduced to Isipanstula culture.
After her mother's passing in 2011 which was my final year in high school, she started Kryptonite Dance Academy, which is Champions of SA's Got Talent 2016. The year 2012 was the birth of Kryptonite Dance Academy. She simultaneously started her first year in University in Film production at AFDA while running her business.
She grew up in a military household where filmmaking was not the preferential career path nor was being a dancer. She completed her fourth year in film production in 2015. She realized being a young African female student in South Africa, her family's exiled past exposed her interest in identity and representation.
In 2017 she started traveling to countries such as; America, Ghana, Nigeria, Namibia, Uganda, and Kenya to understand the dance movement in Africa and how the rest of the world is consuming it.
Since then, Zoyi has brought the African movement to all productions she has been involved in. From her fast Isipantula/hip-hop leg work in the Coca-Cola ad with Tyler the Creator or Fusion of African movement in music videos and her eclectic understanding of the diaspora in The Woman King(2022)
She enjoys working closely with directors to bring off the best representation of Africa.
Her mother, class of '76 who were demonstrating their rights in the Sharpville Soweto uprising was finally coming home. In 1999 the first place Zoyi called home was Orange Farm. Her aunts and cousins looked after her as her mother was getting situated in her new job. This is where she got introduced to Isipanstula culture.
After her mother's passing in 2011 which was my final year in high school, she started Kryptonite Dance Academy, which is Champions of SA's Got Talent 2016. The year 2012 was the birth of Kryptonite Dance Academy. She simultaneously started her first year in University in Film production at AFDA while running her business.
She grew up in a military household where filmmaking was not the preferential career path nor was being a dancer. She completed her fourth year in film production in 2015. She realized being a young African female student in South Africa, her family's exiled past exposed her interest in identity and representation.
In 2017 she started traveling to countries such as; America, Ghana, Nigeria, Namibia, Uganda, and Kenya to understand the dance movement in Africa and how the rest of the world is consuming it.
Since then, Zoyi has brought the African movement to all productions she has been involved in. From her fast Isipantula/hip-hop leg work in the Coca-Cola ad with Tyler the Creator or Fusion of African movement in music videos and her eclectic understanding of the diaspora in The Woman King(2022)
She enjoys working closely with directors to bring off the best representation of Africa.