Workshop
Contemporary African Dance/Afrofusion
for professional dancers
James Mweu/Kepha Oiro – Kunja Dance Theatre (Nairobi/Kenya)
Date: 26.-28 may 09.//11.00-14.00 Uhr
Location: Kölner Tanzresidenz, Cologne Dance Center (Venloer Str. 41)
Costs: € 50,-
Organiser: MOUVOIR/Stephanie Thiersch
Registration possible at: info@mouvoir.de (or: 0221- 4694519)
In the frame of the Festival GLOBALIZE:COLOGNE (www.globalizecologne.de) MOUVOIR/Stephanie Thiersch has the opportunity to invite the fantastic Kunja Dance Theatre from Kenya with their performance „Urbanite“ to Cologne. On that occasion we are happy to propose the unique possibility to share our African experience with professional dancers in Cologne. James Mweu/Kepha Oiro will propose a workshop for professional dancers in Contemporary African Dance over 3 days.
Content of the workshop:
A structure of technical class half of the session, while the remaning half for composition where the choreographers will share their singular approach of creating choreographic material.
Class and composition content is based on the style of their work: Afro fusion and improvisation with specific tools of contemporary African Dance.
Afrofusion Style: we will look at movements in the technique class in following stages:
1. body segmentation with rhythm
2. body segmentation with space and other bodies
3. body segmentation with improvisation tools
4. composition based on these engagements
James Mweu is Director of Nairobi-based Kunja Dance Theatre. Trained originally as a sculptor, James Mweu is one of the young generation of new Kenyan choreographers and dancers, who work with Kenya’s influential dance artist Opiyo Okach and his company Gàara projects. James Mweu performed in Opiyo Okach’s seminal production Shift: Centre, with which he toured worldwide, inc. South Africa, France, Germany, Italy, and Brazil. In 2004 he started his own company Kunja Dance Theatre, building up a repertoire of his own works. His 2005 duet Urbanite was shortlisted for the prestigious biennial pan-African dance competition Danse l’Afrique Danse in 2008. In autumn 2008 James created a piece with Saju Hari of Akram Khan company in London.
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