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East African Bolero
Project type
Dance Creation
Date
2021
Location
Kigali, Paris, Paul, Creil, Bujumbura, Bukavu, Dar es Salaam, Amsterdam
Date
2021, 2022, 2023
Project type
Contemporary Dance
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East African Bolero is a project led by Rwandan choreographer Wesley Ruzibiza, which first intent is to enhance East African traditional culture, giving a contemporary shape to it that makes it accessible and readable on international stages. This show will be created with Beninese choreographer Vincent Harisdo’s outside view and after a research dedicated to traditional dances from Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Democratic Republic of Congo.
This creation wants to explore in a refreshingly new way patrimonial dances. By working around contemporary variations of traditional movements, the idea is to root the performance in a regional heritage and to draw on this repository of movements. The repertory created will be confronted and put in relationship with the music monument that is Maurice Ravel’s Boléro.