DANCE FORUM-Nairobi 5TH EDITION 2011
Written by DF-N
CONTEMPORARY DANCE
5TH NAIROBI FESTIVAL OF SOLOS AND DUETS 19TH-29TH OCTOBER 2011
LOOKING WITHIN-DANCE ECONOMY
Friday 21ST October 2011-7.00pm-10.00pm
Alliance Française/ Goethe Institut
Entrance: 500kshs
Part 1: ALLIANCE FRANCAISE
1. Ulawe Otieno KENYA
Ligala-21 minutes
2. Lumumba Dance TANZANIA
“Must be red or white in or out “30min
3. Gladys Kamene KENYA
“High walls”15 min
Part 2: GOETHE INSTITUT
1. Sammy Gian- KENYA
“Kadugala” -15 minutes
2. YOLE! - CONGO-DRC
“Beta Libanga-40 minutes
9 PM: Concert: Belgine-RWANDA
Saturday 22ND OCTOBER 2011-7.00pm-10.00pm
Alliance Française/ Goethe Institut
Entrance: 500kshs
Part 1: ALLIANCE FRANCAISE
1. Jack and Esther KENYA
Air series 25 minutes
2. Mutumizi Dance- Uganda
Changes -20 minutes
3. Edgar Omondi Kenya
Untitled, 20 min
Part 2: GOETHE INSTITUT
DANCE MONTAGE REPERTOIRE- (KENYA)
Black Wedding- 25 minutes
9 PM: Concert: Le Troupe Radi
Sunday, 23rd October 2011-( 2-5 pm)
Memorial Park
Family Day (Dance and Music)
Entrance: 500 KES, Children: 200 KES
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Wednesday 26th October 2011 7.00pm-Midnight
Entrance Free
KLUB HOUSE/ K1: Baricho Road Parklands. (Picher and Butch Pub)
1. Spacial Events Deejays, and Alien entertainment deejays from AUSTRIA on the spins (House Party night)
2. Kombo and the Afro Simba Band live on stage.
DF-N t-shirts on sale and African merchandise on sale
Friday 28TH October 7.30pm-10.30 pm
Sarakasi Dome- Ngara
Entrance: 500kshs
1. Helen Moraa- KENYA
(on the Roof top)“Memoirs”-15 minutes
2. Jonas Byrahunga- UGANDA
“ Untitled”- 20 minutes
3. Cie Auguste Bievenue- Burkina Faso
“Tourments noir”- 25 minutes
4. Jokajok &Nora -KENYA/ZIMBABWE
“Kimya”-30 minutes
9pm: Concert: Mutinda
Saturday 29th October 2011, 7.30-10.30pm
Visa Oshwal Centre-Westlands opposite Nakumatt UKAY
Entrance 500kshs
1. Mutumizi Dance-UGANDA
“Changes”- 10 minutes
2. COMPANY MOUVOIR-GERMANY
“Nuture morte”- 30mins
3. Morgan Nardi- ITALY
“On(e) morganshow”- 30mins
4. Wendell COOPER- USA
“Disembodied [a memoir]- 30 minutes
5. MHLAYISE -SOUTH AFRICA
“Dayimane!”- 30mins
Kenya National THEATRE (KNT) at 11 pm
Finale concert @ KNT: live DJS and Bands
( Kombo, Mutinda, deejays)
Wasanii Restaurant (KNT)
Tickets available at The Godown Arts Centre, Alliance Francais, Goethe Institut, Sarakasi Dome, Klub House, Gorgeous hair design & beauty 1st floor mobil plaza, Muthaiga, Video Muthaiga, mobil plaza. Muthaiga.
Call: 0722-796628/ 0734-413337/ 0736-139000/ 0721439920/ 0726394565
NAIROBI FESTIVAL OF SOLOS AND DUETS-2011 FUNDRAISER 21ST SEPTEMBER 2011:
This Fund-drive evening will be specially dedicated to the production and logistics of the 5TH NAIROBI FESTIVAL OF SOLOS AND DUETS-19TH-29TH OCTOBER 2011, the dance community, our funs out there, our audiences since the past four editions of the Nairobi festival of solos and duets, and to the new friends and supporters out there that we have not had the time to interact with.
This is a day that we bring you all together to share in the aspirations of a dance community like no other, to understand our goals and objective, and to discover first hand what has been our driving force.
The need to establish a professional Contemporary dance community/ scene, with platforms that provide the knowledge and training that goes into it. We believe your support will go a long way to improving this years festival, in cash and in kind.
The festival is pursuant and looking forward to presenting performances from, East Africa and international dance companies from: Italy, Germany, USA, Nigeria, South Africa, Madagascar, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Gabon and Zimbabwe.
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Alliance Français-Nairobi, Goethe institute-Nairobi, The Go-down Arts Centre, American Embassy-Nairobi, German Embassy-Nairobi, Institut Français -Paris, Art Moves Africa (AMA) Oshwal Centre, Ufuo Creations.
Performance: SEPTEMBER 2011
There will be two dance performances, music by Mutinda, Poetry by Ndungi Githuku, Video By DF-N, Df-n t-shirts on sale and many other little surprises on auction.
CHARGES: Invitation only.
(Buying an invitation will guarantee you free entrance up to two performances during the festival in October, discount on classes and performances in 2012 and all DF-N merchandise)
For only those with invitation cards, this evening,biting and drinks will be served.
TIME: Doors OPEN AT 7.00PM-9.30PM
Dance Forum-Nairobi, are the organizers of the 5TH Edition of The Nairobi Festival Of Solos And Duets 2011(19th-29th October), and have in the previous editions since 2007, been in collaboration and supported by The Godown Arts Center, The Goethe Institut-Nairobi and Alliance Francaise- Na
In this edition, the festival will program company work, as a celebration of the 5th anniversary, but this is restricted to Kenyan companies due to fiscal and logistical issues. However, we are inviting dancers from the East African states of Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Eastern Congo.
MOTTO:
LOOKING WITHIN: CREATING AN ECONOMY-MOVING DANCE WITHIN AFRICA.
This will the the editions guiding principle, around which dancers will engage one another on, as we dialogue in movement workshops, conference (26/27 October) and performances.
It is informed by the basic need of cultivating and nurturing an East African Dance Network and mobility of dancers from this region. We reckon that this wil stimulate exchange and training, creativity, collaborations, production and ultimately financial freedom.
Consequently, this will put the East African dance on the international network/ map.
HOW?
In tandem with this edition's motto: LOOKING WITHIN, we are/ will be in future inviting dancers from across the African continent, with international networks of their own and based within Africa. The invites are/ will be required to have/ be part of a dance development project/ program, festival/ programmers, that they run, participate in, in their countries of origin.
In lieu to this fact, as a guiding principle, we are inviting dancers from other African countries as follows: Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Congo DRC, South Africa, Mozambique, Cote de Ivoire and Madagascar.
The festival will run for 10 days, with dance workshops and training, lights/technical workshops, outreach, dance conference and performances.
For more information, check our contact info to get to us.
NAIROBI FESTIVAL OF SOLOS AND DUETS: (2007-2010)
Finally the fourth year, marking the fourth edition of the Nairobi festival of solos and duets, a platform celebrating contemporary dance in Kenya and the region is behind us now, but not the new energy and life that it brought to contemporary dance in Nairobi.
Each year we offer technique and performance skills to dancers, while offering our audiences a menu of local and international performances.And the performances did not disappoint, all through the performance venues at the Goethe institut, Alliance Francaise, Kenya National Theatre and The godown arts center, not forgetting Lerustique Resturant and the dance groups in Mathare and Kibera, all was awash with vibrancy of dance taking center stage.
2010 marked two years of DF-N’s pilot training and development program THE DANCE MONTAGE, launched to develop a future generations of Kenyan dancers and choreographers.
Theme-2010
MULTIPLE LANGUAGES: (exploring dance as communication):
Our dance exchanges and talks were guided by this principle of communication, as we discover and appreciate our diversity in movement and creation of work.
By strengthening grassroots and community dance as a support system to dance development we create a dynamic and spontaneous growth of the art of dance in Kenya and the region at large.
2010’s edition was witness to performances by dancers from the states of the east Africa community of Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The festival will also witnessed performances from international dance companies from Sweden, Corsica/France, Cyprus and Nigeria.
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