Geza, who scooped the Outstanding Choreographer award at the recently held National Arts Merit Awards, said the accolade had changed his perspective. Having been recognised at home he is more confident to take on the outside world.
“In short ndotowedzera ma gear ekushanda (I now have to up my performances),” Geza said. In 2000 and 2001 he received the Most Outstating Dance Student awards at the Dance Foundation Course. He also received a scholarship to study in the Masters of Choreography at Kunsthogskolen in Norway in 2010. “To the young ones in the arts, my advice is this is a thorny road without shortcuts. It is either you soldier on with hard work and humility as your principles or you become history uchititaimbozviita zvema arts on a street corner,” he said.
He urged all Nama winners not to become big headed but to uplift the standards of arts in the country.