Company Members

Senior Apprentice Company

Mazaruni Khan 17, started ballet in 2021. She is in her last year of High School and she has been extremely dedicated to dance, taking multiple classes at DCK. This year’s Nutcracker will be her first ballet performance. Mazaruni will be performing as a rat and a harem dancer.

Makena Kiruki, 17 years old, has been dancing since she was 3. She won gold in the category of best character from the Nairobi Dance Festival performing her contemporary solo piece. She is now taking Intermediate and Advanced Foundation Ballet. She is a 12th grader in West Nairobi School and is hoping to continue her dance career in the future.

Azza Rollins, 13, is a Somali/American dancer who has been dancing at DCK for 6 years. She is a year 9 student at Braeburn school. Other than ballet, she also enjoys taking tap, contemporary, hip hop and will be taking her RAD Intermediate Ballet exams in May of 2023.

Nefertiti Fourman 13, is in Year 9 at Braeburn Garden Estate. She joined DCK in 2016 and currently takes Intermediate Ballet, Intermediate Pointe, Intermediate Pas de Deux and Gold Contemporary. Over the years she has performed in various shows and recitals. Other than dance, she loves playing the cello, singing, acting, creating stories and art.

Lola Poggio 13, started dancing at 5 years, and is a newcomer to pointe, starting in January. She takes Intermediate Ballet, Intermediate Pointe, Pas de Deux, Platinum Hip-hop and Senior Company. During the summer, Lola was in an intensive dance workshop at Pineapple Studios in London and went on to perform at the Leicester Square theatre.

Evangelia (Eva) van de Velden, 11, is a 6th grader at the International School of Kenya and started ballet in France at the age of 3. Eva takes Intermediate Foundation Ballet, Pointe and Hip Hop. She has been a Company member since 2018 and has danced in every Nutcracker performance since - in 2021 she was a Party Girl and Seraphim. She also plays the piano and does choir.

Fiona Liu, 12, is a Grade 7 student at Kenton Preparatory School. She has been dancing for 6 years and has been doing pointe for 2 years. In past DCK Nutcracker productions she has been a Angel, Candy Cane, Lead Mouse and a Russian Dancer. She currently takes Intermediate Pointe, Intermediate foundation and Hip hop.

Sabrina Kazziha, 12, joined Dance Centre Kenya the year it was founded and has performed in every Nutcracker since, starting as a tiny Mouse in 2015 and performing as the Attendant to the Sugar Plum Fairy in the 2021 Nutcracker. In the 2022 Anniversary Gala, she danced the part of the Joy Fairy. She takes Intermediate Foundation ballet and Hip-hop, enjoys musical theatre, sings and plays the flute.