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CASE STUDIES Dance Africa Now (Senegal, Tunisia, Kenya)
An outcome of Visiting Arts Africa 07 initiative and developed following a Visiting Arts coordinated visit to the 8th ZIFF Festival of the Dhow Countries in Zanzibar (our Beyond the Sea programme), this triple bill of North, East and West African dance premiered work from three leading choreographers at the 2007 Woking Dance Festival. Senegal’s Compagnie Premier Temps presented Impro-visé_2 – a powerfully evocative duet observing life on the streets in Dakar. Award-winning Imed Jemaa transferred Tunisian urban street hip hop to the stage in Rojla, a piece evoking the atmosphere of the Maghreb Medinas for seven dancers, and Kenyan dancer-choreographer Kebaya Moturi performed his solo Hisia - a beautifully meditative work encompassing poetic text, dance and ritualistic movement. The artists also participated in an international choreographic laboratory held in association with ADAD to explore the creation of new work, and in Dance Migration: Bodies - Artistry – Identity, a one-day conference held in association with the University of Surrey and the AHRC Centre for Cross-cultural Music and Dance Performance.
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