formation en danse contemporaine africaine à l’Ecole des Sables à Toubab Dialaw. Je rentre très satisfait de cette formation. J’ai effectivement beaucoup appris : bases du mouvement de la danse contemporaine africaine et occidentale, techniques des différents intervenants. La proposition de Germaine Acogny est un outil formidable de créativité artistique. -Rencontre avec les danseurs de…
The whole experience is a highlight. The first class – A dance studio within Nature, a view of the Atlantic Ocean and the Senegalese Baobab bush, breath taking inspiring space for a Dance. The unity in African communities was a great success, seeing the transmission of a variety of African Cultural dances rise with 23…
On the 10 of August, Sharon, Craig and myself, Bree Tonga, traveled to Kenya to attend the Lola Kenya Screen children’s film festival. When we arrived we were divided into different groups. Sharon was put in the Jury, Craig in the press and I was put in the production class. Our facilitator was Eid Abdel…
A Journey to Remember It was on a Sunday morning, the 11 of August 2008 when we departed the Harare International Airport in Zimbabwe. At first I was shocked at the thought that it was really me who was going to Kenya for the Lola Kenya Screen Festival, but as they say, a journey of…
The event is the international workshop of woman art held in Naivasha – Kenya at 100 Km from Nairobi. The event is considered to be established in pure nature not inside showrooms as conventionally done. This event is composed of 16 artists from Kenya and different countries of the world. We were invited in order…
It was a conference in which African and African Diaspora artists/choreographers met to experiment and explore each other’s working technique as well as learn from each other. There was discussion on where Art, Dance in particular is going in the continent and way of networking with each other so that everyone knows what going on…
Ce qui était un événement très important dans la tournée du spectacle, puisqu’on a souvent l’opportunité de jouer en Europe plus qu’en Afrique. Et pourtant notre spectacle parle de donner espoir à la jeunesse en Afrique ; Et de comment cette jeunesse peut s’inspirer des héros contemporains pour réveiller le combattant qui dort en nous.…
Lola Kenya Screen was held at the National Art Theatre. It was held under the directorship and administering of Mr Ogova Ondego. We had our Official Opening on the 10th of August in the evening and we were introduced to the other members. On the 11th of the same month we were directed to different…
During the Arterial Conference, I was elected to represent my country Uganda and my region East Africa on the Arterial Network Committee. I learnt a lot of interesting things including the fact that ; lack of Government and Private sector support for the Arts is not limited to Uganda alone or Africa but rather a…
Learning about South African communities and how similar they are to Zimbabwe. How to work and collaborate with 2 other artists from different parts of the world, with South Africans’ participation construct something we all were happy with. Learning more ways to work with communities as well as being able to work with professional artist…
