Category: Program

Kuyum concert

Paraya Diallo plays his music for the people and, above all, with them. It is easy to groove into his music, it is intensely sonorous, alive. The songs are characterized by deep spirituality, love for people, and confidence in life. If love, liveliness, and confidence can be felt by the people listening and dancing, then […]

Kuyum conference

“Embodiments of Dance Transformation” One-day conference at Kuyum Festival, 10.09.2023 10:00-13:00 Concept, curation & moderation by Nora Amin Not only is Kuyum Dance Platform interested in presenting new forms of African dance, or neo African dance, it is equally interested in raising awareness and stimulating the debates around a new transfer of knowledge in the […]

Kuyum Collaborative

ONE or togetherness – that is what the Kabiyé word “Kuyum” means. Under this motto, five dancers from different African cultures try out new ways for a Neo-African dance: rapprochements and repulsions, strangeness and familiarity. A stimulating exchange begins! The process of “Kuyum Kollaborativ” brings the five dancers and their dance languages, each shaped by […]

Soliloque dansé

In the dance soliloquy, the body of the dancer Nestor Gahe becomes the medium in which society and the individual meet with all their forces, conflicts and dependencies. What happens when the body parts (individuals) want to follow their own needs, although the whole (the body) has to function? How does cohesion emerge in this […]

I am [NOT] a parrot

We use the word “exotic”, to label something that we cannot label. By calling it that way, we stop confronting ourselves with it. We are comfortable. We move day by day in different ways, and our movements are mostly automatic. I started this piece when I was being compared with a “parrot” by an audience […]

The silence of the spirits

In the current situation of a global pandemic, it is more necessary than ever to reflect on how to heal the wounds to enter the world of tomorrow. The silence of the spirits is a reflection on how to heal this world of tomorrow. With the rapid progress of new technologies, the world will become […]

My Dance

Nora Amin liberates the so-called belly dance from the sediments of history: she inverts the voyeuristic and exoticized perspective into a perspective of one’s own body and history, allowing the audience a new view. My Dance is an attempt to shift power, a reflection on female sexuality, the erotic self, and patriarchal oppression, as well […]

*The Sys-[tem]*

*The Sys-[tem]* is the stripping of choreographic techniques of their spectacular dimensions to keep only the raw movements in order to slide from a phrase formulation to another dance style with virtuosity (hip hop, Neoclassical, contemporary, afro-contemporary…), in order to be able to retrace the story of a 15 years old girl in the Alabama of […]

My Path

In this piece, the choreographer blows himself and expresses a brutal agitation. “My Path”. It is the human being in the grip of an existential crisis of orientation. It is the torment, the inner tragedy of setting out on the right path in life, with its disappointments, its resentments. But above all, “My Path”” is […]

Diekpo

This neo-African dance production is a creative process centred on a ritual practice known as “Dipo” from Krobo land, located in eastern Ghana. It is a female rite of passage. The choreography examines its rituals, looks at its cultural meanings and also negative effects from a post-colonial, feminist perspective. It is worth taking a look […]