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 [...]
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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
Gaby Saranouffi Speaks on her solo “MOI” at KINANI Contemporary Dance Festival, Mozambique
Posted: November 28, 2011 in African Contemporary Dance, Contemporary Dance, KINANI, Madagascar, Mozambique, Women and DanceTags: Gaby Saranouffi, KINANI, Madagascar
I interviewed Gaby Saranouffi at the KINANI Contemporary Dance Festival in Maputo, Mozambique in November 2011. Gaby’s new solo “MOI” speaks on women, sexuality, strength, abuse, aggression, and beauty. Her embodied narrative moves in and around a small set of lights- reframing and framing her female body, within the Malagasy cultural context. In this interview [...]
