This is version 1.0, which applied from 3 August 2026 until 22 September 2026. Read the version in effect now.
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About these terms
These terms govern your use of the Stage Africa website at stage.africa. The site is published by Burtronix CC (registration number 1996/045193/23), trading as Stage Africa, whom these terms mean by "we" and "us".
By using the site you accept these terms. There is nothing to sign and no account to create; if you do not accept them, please do not use the site.
These terms work with our privacy notice, which explains what personal information we collect and why. Where the two speak to the same thing, the privacy notice governs how we handle your personal information and these terms govern everything else.
We can be reached at privacy@stage.africa for anything about these terms or your information, and through the contact form for everything else.
Who may use the site
Anyone may read this site. There is no account, no registration, and nothing to join.
The site is a publication written for adults: dancers, teachers, studio owners, and people who are interested in the field. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18.
The newsletter is for adults. Please do not subscribe if you are under 18. If we learn that a subscriber is under 18 we stop sending immediately and remove the subscription. We keep the minimum needed to make sure we do not add the address back, and nothing else.
If you believe we hold information about someone under 18, tell us at privacy@stage.africa and we will act.
How you may use the site
You may read the site, share links to it, and quote from it as the law allows and as the licence on each item permits.
When you use the site, please do not:
- break the law, or infringe anyone else's rights;
- interfere with the site, attack it, or try to reach parts of it that are not published;
- automate access in a way that degrades the site for other people, ignores our published crawling rules, or works around a limit we have set;
- misuse the contact form or the newsletter, including sending another person's address or using either to distribute unsolicited mail; or
- present our material as your own, or strip the credit from something that carries one.
We are not against machines reading the site. Reading it automatically is fine; what is not fine is doing so in a way that costs us money or availability, or that circumvents something we have deliberately put in the way.
If you do any of the above we may block your access. We do that to keep the site working rather than to police what people think of it.
The content on this site, and what you may do with it
The words, diagrams, and generated images on this site are the copyright of Andries Petrus (Riaan) Burger, unless the item says otherwise. All rights in them are reserved for now. We intend to publish our own material under a permissive licence, and when we do, each item will say so.
Every article, and every photograph that is not ours, carries its own licence information: who holds the rights, what licence applies, where it came from, how to credit it, and any condition that travels with it. That information is the authority. Nothing in these terms grants you anything, and no statement anywhere on the site grants you more than the item's own licence does.
Some of what you see is not ours to license at all, and this matters more than it sounds:
- Most photographs are not ours. Where one came from somebody else, it is credited where the article shows it, and its own licence is named there. That licence governs what you may do with the photograph, and it is the thing to read.
- Where a photograph is ours, the first paragraph above covers it like anything else we made.
- Where a photograph carries an open licence, such as a Creative Commons one, you have whatever that licence gives you, directly from the photographer. We do not add conditions to it and could not if we wanted to.
- Where a photograph is licensed to us commercially, our licence does not let us pass it on. You may not extract, download, or reuse those photographs as files in their own right, whatever the article around them says.
- Articles written by other people carry their author's licence, shown with the article.
- Glissade dance terminology is displayed here as part of the publication. Seeing it on the site does not give you the dataset behind it.
- The copyright notice in our footer covers this site as a whole. It claims nothing over a photograph or an article that carries its own licence.
"Stage Africa", "Glissade", and our logos and get-up are ours. Please do not use them in a way that suggests we endorse you or are connected with you.
What you send us
The site has no comments, no profiles, and nowhere to post. The only things you send us are a contact-form message, a newsletter sign-up, or an email.
What you write to us stays yours. We use it to answer you and for nothing else, and our privacy notice says how long we keep it.
If you send us something you would like published, please say so, and we will come back to you. Sending it does not give us permission to publish it, and we do not treat it as if it had. We are not able to accept unsolicited photographs of identifiable people at all, because the permission needed for that is the photographer's and the subject's, not the sender's.
What the site is, and what it is not
This site is a publication. What we write is editorial: reporting, opinion, explanation, and reference.
It is not instruction, and it is not professional advice. Dance is a physical activity and it carries a risk of injury. Nothing here is a substitute for learning from a qualified teacher in a room, and nothing here is medical advice. If you are working on technique, or coming back from an injury, or unsure whether something is safe for you, ask a teacher or a health professional rather than an article.
That matters enough to say plainly rather than leave implied. We do not know your body, your training, your injuries, or the room you are standing in, and we cannot see what you do with anything you read here. So if you put into practice something you read on this site, you do that on your own judgement and at your own risk, and you accept that risk yourself. Where you are unsure, the answer is a teacher who can watch you, not a paragraph that cannot.
We take care with what we publish and we correct what we get wrong. If we have written about you, listed you in our directory, or published anything you believe is wrong, tell us: our corrections page says how, who handles it, and how long we take, and it covers a directory entry the same way it covers an article. We would rather hear from you than from your lawyer.
Even so, articles and listings go out of date, and the dance terminology we display is a reference rather than a ruling: usage differs between traditions, between countries, and between studios in the same street.
Our directory is our own work. We compile each entry from public sources, so the company, venue, or person it describes has usually had no part in writing it and has not checked it. The words in an entry are ours, and if they are wrong they are ours to put right. What a listed party does is theirs, and listing them is not a recommendation, an endorsement, or a check that they are any good. Who we include is an editorial choice and an incomplete one, so leaving somebody out says nothing about them.
Disclaimers and limits on liability
We provide the site "as is". Beyond what the law requires, we do not promise that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for a particular purpose.
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of the site. Nothing in these terms limits any liability that cannot be limited by law, including your mandatory rights as a consumer.
Availability, and blocking access
We publish when we publish. There is no guarantee that the site will be available, and we may change it, move things, or take material down without telling you first. We may stop publishing altogether.
We may block access from an address or a client that is doing any of the things the acceptable-use section asks you not to do. If we have blocked you and you think we should not have, write to us at privacy@stage.africa and we will look at it.
Nothing here is a subscription and nothing is owed to you as a reader, which is also why you owe us nothing for reading.
Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the law of the Republic of South Africa, and the South African courts have jurisdiction over any dispute about them.
This does not take away the protection of the mandatory consumer and data-protection laws of the country where you live. Where those laws give you rights, or a place to bring a claim, that these terms cannot override, they continue to apply to you.
Changes to these terms
We may change these terms as the site changes and as the law changes. The version on this page is the one that applies, and it carries the date it took effect.
Where a change is material we will say so on the page, and we will leave the previous version reachable so you can see what changed. Because the site has no accounts, we cannot record which version you read, and we do not pretend to. If you carry on using the site after a change, that is your acceptance of it.
If a change ever needs your agreement rather than your notice, we will ask for it properly rather than by publishing something and waiting.
Version 1.0, in effect from 3 August 2026 until 22 September 2026.