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Sunday, June 11 2023

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Event

OPEN SHIP & Performances: »spoken word performance« & 'bodies telling stories' - by Miziguruka, Zora Snake Violaine Le Fur, Zai & Nana - Afropollination x Nyege Nyege

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OPEN SHIP & Afropollination
sun deck, cool drinks, excellent music, chillando & hangout - come over!
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pizza by Ingaglio Gianmarco (@pizzagianmarco)
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spoken word performance by Miziguruka(rw) x Pö(fr/gh)

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»bodies telling stories« performance by

Zora Snake(cm) x Violaine Le Fur(fr/cm)
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musical guests


18:00 »spoken words«
18:30 »bodies telling stories«
20:00 end


Afropollination x Nyege Nyege x MS Stubnitz 2023
Collaborative artistic projects between Africa and Germany…
todays focus: performing arts and dance!


»spoken words«
Miziguruka is the direct translation of flying roots
A fish that can fly, a bird that can swim
One of the two or both.
Here to testify

That I became the mask of my freedom rituals
I became the voice within and the voice out loud


»bodies telling stories«
a dance and corporal performance onboard of MS Stubnitz by
ZORA SNAKE, dancer, choreographer, performer from Cameroon
VIOLAINE LE FUR, dancer from Cameroon
ZAI & NANA, dancers from Tanzania
± musical guests


Facebook-Event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/262820496149743


Afropollination aims to encapsulate the process of artistic and social cultural pollination, facilitating creative encounters between artists, genres, disciplines, identities, ideas, cultures, technologies, and communities from Cameroon, Congo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, France and Germany. On the Stubnitz, the artists will collaborate in a second residency phase, exchanging their skills and styles and experimenting together.


Afropollination is a project lead by Piranha Arts (Berlin) in cooperation with Boutique Foundation / Nyege Nyege (Kampala).
Artistic direction: Nyege Nyege
Afropollination is funded by the TURN2 Fund
Partners: MS Stubnitz, CTM Festival, Cosmo Radio, Festsaal Kreuzberg




Afropollionation:
https://www.facebook.com/afropollination
https://www.instagram.com/afropollination
https://linktr.ee/afropollination
https://www.piranha-arts.com/#afropollination
https://www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de/de/projekte/musik_und_klang/detail/afropollination.html


NyegeNyege:
https://www.youtube.com/c/NyegeNyegeMusic
https://www.facebook.com/nyegetapes
https://www.instagram.com/nyegenyege
https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com


Hakuna Kulala:
https://hakunakulala.bandcamp.com

https://www.facebook.com/hakunakulal
https://www.instagram.com/hakuna.kulala


MUSIC AND DANCE
Music and dance have always gone hand in hand in Africa, but unfortunately when represented internationally, the two often get disentangled. With this project we want to re-contextualize the music through its dance element, and take it a step further by involving contemporary dancers and choreographers to create new modern interpretations to the music from the project.


The first phase of the project took place in Uganda around the Nyege Nyege Festival 2022 with residencies before and after the festival as well as artists’ shows and debates at the festival. Further phases will take place in 2023 in Germany at the CTM festival in Berlin, two residency phases at MS Stubnitz in Hamburg, at Festsaal Kreuzberg for the closing Afropollination event in June 2023 and with a partnership with Cosmo Radio (Cologne).


Definition: “Pollination is the transfer of pollen later enabling fertilization and the production of seeds, most often by an animal or by wind.”

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18:00
Performance

»spoken word performance« by Miziguruka

MIZIGURUKA
Rwanda, artistic performer, spoken word artist, dancer


Natacha MUZIRAMAKENGA also known by her artist’s name Miziguruka is a multidisciplinary artist. She has worked for 15 years as a poet, performer, actress, director and translator.
Recurring themes in her work are resilience, the female body, female freedoms, memory and transmission.
Her performances combine poetry with a deejay set and live music and fire spinning.
As an actress she has featured in films such as “Neptune Frost” by Saul Williams an Anisia Uzeyman, “Petit Pays” of Eric Barbier, “Grey Matter” by Kivu Ruhorahoza, “ “ A Sunday in Kigali” by Robert Favreau.
Natacha's work as an author was published in Wasafari magazine on November 18, 2020 and in 2019 in a collective work 'Au dessous des Volcans' published by Sepia.
She contributed both as a writer and a performer to the play 'Learning Feminism from Rwanda' which is touring all over Germany and Switzerland with the Flinn Works company between 2020 and 2021.
Miziguruka’s latest performances where presented in Berlin “Frequencies Festival” organized by Goethe Institut in May 2022.


Links:
https://www.instagram.com/miziguruka
https://www.instagram.com/flyingroots
https://youtu.be/tb9fy2zsrk4
https://vimeo.com/585807556
https://vimeo.com/571766723

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18:30
Performance

»bodies telling stories« by Zora Snake, Violaine Le Fur, Zai & Nana

ZORA SNAKE
Cameroon, dancer, choreographer, performer


Zobel Raoul, or TEJEUTSA which means “A person with strong empathy” in the traditional Yemba language, is a dancer, choreographer and researcher in Performance Art of Cameroonian origin, best known under the name Zora Snake.


He is the founder of the Zora Snake Company, of the international festival Modaperf (Movements, dances and performances of Cameroon), and one of the most promising artists of the current contemporary scene in Africa and Europe.


Winner of Visa for the creation of the French Institute in Paris 2016-2017, several projects with the French institute and the Goethe Institute of Cameroon, Zora Snake is the author of several dance and performance creations in Africa: “Transfrontalier” (On the immigration routes), “The departure” (art and politics), “The aftermath of colonization” (Chapters and danced memoirs on the impact of colonization on our current generations), “Beyond the human », « I am ».


Winner of the 1st prize Acogny D’or, Africa Simply the best of the choreographic competition of Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina-Faso) with his creation “the departure”1, Zora Snake won on October 3, 2020 the prize of Best artist dancer and performer of the year, of the Golden Artistic Awards in Brussels (BELGIUM) organized by Brukmer Magazines.


His virtuoso, transgressive, daring, overflowing, explosive, committed creations also intersect with the ritual practices of his ethnicity where dance is a strong social structuring value carried by tradition.


His creations are inspired by a strong political will to change social perceptions, for a more soothing, decisive, objective, resilient, united and resistant humanity.


His current projects are a residence with a Togolese plastic artist and sculptor, “Les masques Tombent”, a tour with Serge Aimé Coulibaly “Wakatt”. His is also touring with his show “Le Départ”.


Zora Snake is always active, organizing workshops and artistic creations around the world.


https://zorasnake.com/
https://www.instagram.com/zorasnake
Video: Le départ. Danse / Performance - Teaser 2022: https://youtu.be/m22FT4kU6Cs




VIOLAINE LE FUR
France/Cameroon, dance curator


Violaine is based between France and Cameroon. She studied art history and archeology at the Sorbonne, before starting an artistic training at the Villa Arson (Nice) which she continued and finished in La Cambre (Brussels). She directed a first autobiographical documentary « To the West » in which she goes in search of the tomb of her father buried in western Cameroon, a film in which she shares her initiation to dialogue with the ancestors. A multidisciplinary artist, she is interested in the art of healing through different mediums, including film and performance.


She is currently making a documentary about Pierre Capelle, an old French healer from the Lot Valley who induces trance by putting people in contact with the trees of his garden.


Artistic director of the Yoké collective, she organizes workshops, exhibitions, and cultural events. Curator within the Nyege Nyege collective, she participates in the dance and performance programming of the festival. She makes video clips with Cameroonian artists and encourages collaborations with other independent African Festivals such as Kinact (DRC), Modaperf (Cameroon), Balabal’art (Congo Brazzaville).


https://www.instagram.com/lefurviolaine/
https://www.youtube.com/@violainelefur7781

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