Alex dancer Lebohang Sediane watched his dreams collapse when he was shot in both legs, but today he has reclaimed the dance floor and teaches children how to dance like him.

Sediane was a quiet and shy boy who felt safest in a corner, yet he knew how to dance and would later find his expression through dancing.

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In 2006, his brother introduced him to Wrong Button, the group led by Thabo Mano with the late Donald Siphutla and friends.

Two weeks later the group performed at San Kopano and Sediane was chosen to become part of the team. He recalled how that put him in the spotlight. From that moment, he said, his hunger for achievement and love of dance only grew. He worked with other crews before opening his own organisation.

He said in 2010 opportunities to perform on big stages appeared, yet hurdles forced him to branch out. “We were unstoppable, but when the group crashed, I had to open my own group called 101. I was teaching dance to children and some of them became big stars in the music industry,” he said.

He paused dancing in Grade 12, then founded Bambanani Legendary Production, which grew in strength and participated in competitions successfully.

After more than a decade on major stages, a shooting in both legs ended plans to travel to the United States. He said depression followed because dance had been the one thing that brought out the best in him. It was never merely a hobby; it was how he expressed himself, experienced the world and escaped the shy corner of childhood.

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He said the ordeal pushed him straight back there. “I thought my life was over,” said Sediane.
Amid the pain, however, he found hope through faith. “I prayed to God before I slept, and he worked in a miraculous way. I felt something healing me while I was sleeping. I woke up and I was able to let those crutches go,” he said.

He and his grandmother prayed together. Physiotherapy and long walks followed until he could walk unaided. Step by step he returned to movement. “I had to stop feeling sorry for myself because God gave me another chance in life, even if I was not the same me. I told myself I will rise again, stronger than before,” he said.

Singing and dance events slowly rebuilt the confidence buried under collapsed dreams. Organisations he had worked with before, including Afrika Tikkun and Penny Dance Academy, offered opportunities. Gigs returned and he began making music with a collaborator from the United Kingdom.

Today, Sediane runs a new organisation called The Unknown, teaching young people dance, music, poetry and art.

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