Kinani Contemporary Dance Festival took place in Maputo, Mozambique at numerous venues throughout the city. It opened with a site specific performance in a train station and then followed to six nights of shows in large scale theatres to black box venues around the city of Maputo. Companies came from near and far from Maputo [...]
Archive for the ‘Dance in and outside of Africa’ Category
Kinani Contemporary Dance Festival- Trace One
Posted: January 8, 2012 in African Contemporary Dance, Contemporary Dance, Dance in and outside of Africa, KINANI, Mozambique, Video Traces0
Women Choreographers: Articulating the Personal Political
Posted: August 20, 2011 in African Contemporary Dance, Atelier AEx Corps, Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project, Contemporary Dance, Dance in and outside of Africa, Danse Contemporaine, Danse l'Afrique Danse!, Donko Seko, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Shifting Center Cyber, Women and DanceThis blog features Women Choreographers THAT ROCK: Juliette Omollo (Kenya), Mamela Nyamza (South Africa), Nelisiwe Xaba (South Africa), Fatou Cisse (Senegal), Nadia Beugre (Ivory Coast), Kettly Noel (Mali/Haiti), Julie Iarisoa (Madagascar). These interviews are primarily shot during the Danse L’Afrique Danse in Bamako, Mali 2010. Kettly Noel was the festival director and hosted numerous companies [...]
Hind Benali speaks on women and dance
Posted: December 12, 2010 in African Contemporary Dance, Contemporary Dance, Dance in and outside of Africa, Danse Contemporaine, Morocco, Video Traces, Women and DanceTags: Action Danse, Hind Benali
Choreographer and dancer, Hind Benali, discusses women’s issues and dance in Morocco. This clip is a section of a larger trace that highlights females choreographers from countries throughout Africa. This interview took place during the Action Danse Festival (November-December 2010).
Danse l’Afrique danse! Trace 3
Posted: December 9, 2010 in African Contemporary Dance, Contemporary Dance, Dance in and outside of Africa, Danse Contemporaine, Danse l'Afrique Danse!, Shifting Center Cyber, Video TracesTags: Gregory Maqoma, Kubilai Khan Investigations, Radhouane El Meddeb, Seydou Boro
Excerpts from Danse l’Afrique danse! festival held in Bamako, Mali 2010. Featured in this video are excerpts from works by Gregory Maqoma, Kubilai Khan Investigations, Radhouane El Meddeb, and Seydou Boro.
Horacio Macuacua speaks on “Orobroy, stop!
Posted: December 9, 2010 in Contemporary Dance, Dance in and outside of Africa, Danse Contemporaine, Danse l'Afrique Danse!, Mali, Video TracesTags: Horacio Macuaca, Mozambique
Mozambique based Choreographer Horacio Macuacua speaks on “Orobroy, stop!” while in Bamako, Mali for Danse l’Afrique Danse 2010. Horacio is one of the winners of “Danse l’Afrique danse” competition and is currently on tour with this piece throughout numerous African countries. I am a big fan of his work and I look forward to seeing [...]
Adedeyo Liadi
Posted: December 9, 2010 in African Contemporary Dance, Contemporary Dance, Dance in and outside of Africa, Danse Contemporaine, Kenya, Video TracesNigerian-based choreographer, teacher, and performer Adedeyo Liadi speaks and performs in Nairobi, Kenya as part of the Festival for Solos and Duets organized by Dance Forum-Nairobi.
Fernando Anuagn’a- Kenyan Choreographer/Dancer
Posted: November 26, 2010 in African Contemporary Dance, Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project, Contemporary Dance, Dance in and outside of Africa, Danse Contemporaine, Danse l'Afrique Danse!, History of Contemporary African Dance, KenyaInterview with Fernando Anuagn’a solo “Journey to the Future” presented at Danse l’Afrique danse! 2010. His interview is part of BT Dance Project’s Shifting Centers: Dance and Technology in and outside of Africa which highlights current contemporary African dance work throughout various countries in Africa.
Danse l’Afrique Danse! Mali 2010
Posted: November 14, 2010 in African Contemporary Dance, Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project, Contemporary Dance, Dance in and outside of Africa, Danse Contemporaine, Danse l'Afrique Danse!, Donko Seko, Mali, Research Phase, Shifting Center Cyber, Technology, Video TracesDanse l’Afrique Danse in Bamako, Mali 2010 Danse l’Afrique Danse is a platform for African contemporary choreographers- emerging and established. It is a meeting place for choreographers, dancers, presenters, programmers, cultural workers, researchers, and local contemporary dance audiences. It is a competition and launching platform for “new” choreographers where three winners have a pre-programmed tour [...]
More than dance from Dakar, Senegal
Posted: October 31, 2010 in Atelier AEx Corps, Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project, Contemporary Dance, Cross-cultural exchange, Dance in and outside of Africa, Research Phase, Senegal, Shifting Center Cyber, Technology, Video TracesPart of the Shifting Centers experience is focused on contemporary African dance; yet, in conjunction with this objective, the project is also focused on issues of accessibility, technology, and overall resources available to choreographers and artists in Senegal, Mali, Kenya, and Morocco. Here is a short clip that addresses some of the cultural context we [...]
Dakar, Senegal: Andreya Ouamba and Atelier Aex Corps
Posted: October 25, 2010 in African Contemporary Dance, Atelier AEx Corps, Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project, Contemporary Dance, Cross-cultural exchange, Dance in and outside of Africa, Danse Contemporaine, Research Phase, Senegal, Shifting Center Cyber, Technology, Video TracesDakar, Senegal: Video from Ateliers Aex Corps in Dakar, Senegal. This video highlights interviews with choreographers and workshop director Andreya Ouamba in addition to footage with dancer participants in the workshop. This is the fourth edition of Ateliers Aex Corps. Coming soon is a video of dancers interviews/footage and what types of Internet communication many [...]
