Luke De Kock is a South African director, filmmaker, choreographer, and performing artist working across film and performance locally and internationally. His choreography has featured in Honey 3 (Universal Pictures) and Runs In The Family (Netflix), and he has worked with brands including Lays, BMW, Adidas, and Hennessy. He has performed with artists such as Toni Braxton and John Legend, and movement director for Lalah Hathaway and Tems. A graduate of Jazzart Dance Theatre and the University of Cape Town, he creates site-specific works exploring heritage, memory, and erased cultural narratives. His film debut is WAT WAS HIE?
Sessions & Appearances
Sat 6 Jun
11:30 ·
Centre for Humanities Research, UWC
My Tongue Bound Stretches a Map of Sorrow: Reclaiming Culture as a Restorative Pathway
A panel discussion for filmmakers, community members, cultural workers and movement practitioners, who want to understand how practicing culture in all its forms provides a pathway to rectify past social injustice.
Featured Work
WAT WAS HIE?
2025
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31
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African
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Short
A journey through Cape Town’s layered histories, where movement and memory reactivate landscapes marked by colonialism, slavery, and Indigenous resistance, asking what was here and what…