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Dance Africa Now (Senegal, Tunisia, Kenya)

Photo: Antoine Tempe

A triple bill of North, East and West African dance premiering work from three leading choreographers.  Senegal’s Compagnie Premier Temps present Impro-visé_2 – a powerfully evocative duet observing life on the streets in Dakar.  Award-winning Imed Jemaa transfers 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 performs his solo Hisia, a beautifully meditative work encompassing poetic text, dance and ritualistic movement.
 
The artists will participate in an international choreographic laboratory held in association with ADAD to explore the creation of new work (Rhoda McGaw Theatre, Sunday 25 March) 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 (Rhoda McGaw Theatre, Saturday 31 March).
 
Venues and dates Performances at Rhoda McGaw Theatre, Woking (28 March) as part of Woking Dance Festival and presented by East London Dance at Stratford Circus, London (29 March) 2007

Website www.wokingdancefestival.co.uk
 
This project is supported as part of Visiting Arts Africa 07 initiative and was developed following a Visiting Arts coordinated visit to the 8th ZIFF Festival of the Dhow Countries in Zanzibar (July 2005) in partnership with Arts Council England South East and the French Embassy in London.

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