Vincent Mantsoe hails from Soweto, South Africa. During his formative years he danced with youth clubs, practicing street dances and trying to imitate the dance moves seen in music videos. At the same time, he woke everyday to the sound of the drum his mother played to greet the Ancestors. A descendant of a long line of Sangomas (traditional healers) Mantsoe participated in traditional rituals involving the use of song and dance. It was not until he began his training at Johannesburg's Moving Into Dance Company that Mantsoe was able to merge these two distinct dance forms into his own style that he describes as Afro-fusion. Mantsoe's work draws on traditional African dance forms with a contemporary approach from modern, ballet and Asian forms such as Tai Chi, Martial Arts and traditional Balinese dance.