Untimitive Dance Company

UNTIMITIVE DANCE COMPANY WAS ESTABLISHED BY INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CHOREOGRAPHER, RUDI SMIT, IN 2012. THE COMPANY IS BASED IN CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA.

IN THE YEAR OF THEIR INCEPTION, THEY SET A NEW RECORD FOR SOUTH AFRICA BY PLACING 9TH IN THE MEGACREW DIVISION AT THE HIP HOP INTERNATIONAL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN LAS VEGAS. THIS RECORD HAS STILL NOT BEEN BROKEN BY ANOTHER SOUTH AFRICAN TEAM IN THIS CATEGORY.

AFTER THIS ACHIEVEMENT, THEY WENT ON TO COMPETING IN A MULTITUDE OF COMPETITIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA AND ABROAD, CONSISTENTLY KEEPING A TOP 2 SPOT IN ALL COMPETITIONS ENTERED. SOME OF THEIR OTHER COMPETITION CIRCUIT HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

• WINNERS OF HHI SOUTH AFRICA QUALIFIERS 2015, 2016 & 2017
• WINNERS OF WORLD OF DANCE SOUTH AFRICA 2018
• WINNERS OF HIP HOP INDABA 2019
• WINNERS OF DANCESTAR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN CROATIA 2019 IN THE HIP HOP, COMMERCIAL AND OPEN CATEGORIES.

FAST FACTS:

• ACROSS INSTAGRAM, TIKTOK, FACEBOOK & YOUTUBE UNTIMITIVE HAS OVER 20 MILLION VIEWS ON THEIR VIDEOS.
• CHOREOGRAPHER, RUDI SMIT, HAS OVER 100 MILLION VIEWS ON HIS VIDEOS CROSS-PLATFORM AND HAS TAUGHT MASTERCLASSES IN OVER 28 COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE.
• THERE HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 150 MEMBERS IN UNTIMITIVE FROM 2012 – 2024
• UNTIMITIVE IS A PROUDLY LGBTQIA+ FRIENDLY DANCE COMPANY.

UNTIMITIVE IS BEST KNOWN FOR THEIR VIRAL DANCE VIDEOS. NOTEABLY, MEGHAN TRAINOR’S ME TOO, THAT WENT VIRAL GLOBALLY IN 2016 AND SUBSEQUENTLY MADE THEM TRANSITION FROM CREW TO COMPANY. AS A RESULT OF THIS VIDEO, UNTIMITIVE HAS WORKED IN THE CORPORATE INDUSTRY ALONG CORPORATE GIANTS SUCH AS DAVID BLOCH, DEBBIE RAKUSIN, GINA SHMUKLER, ADRIAN POULSEN & LEE RATH TO NAME A FEW, WORKING FOR COMPANIES SUCH AS BIDVEST, PAM GOLDING, SHOPRITE, SKECHERS, NANDO’S FOOD LOVERS MARKET, SCHWEPPES, COSMOPOLITAN & MANY MORE.

UNTIMITIVE HAS APPEARED IN MUSIC VIDEOS FOR LOCAL ARTISTS GOODLUCK AND ROUGE AND HAVE ALSO PERFORMED FOR MAFIKIZOLO & LLYOD CELE. ROUGE’S “ARUMTUMTUM” MUSIC VIDEO WON A SAMA IN 2018 FOR MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR. THIS WAS A DANCE-ONLY MUSIC VIDEO THAT FEATURED UNTIMITIVE. THE MEMBERS OF UNTIMITIVE COLLECTIVELY HAVE APPEARED IN OVER 30 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIALS FOR BRANDS SUCH AS COCA COLA, FORD MUSTANG, ADIDAS, HAAGEN DASZ, VOLKSWAGEN, DSTV, IDENTITY CLOTHING AND MORE.