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Gàara Dance Foundation activities > annual encounters, exchange Nairobi choreographic encounters 29 july/10 august 2005 Nairobi (Kenya) programme - Local bursaries for choreographers - International Unesco Aschberg Bursaries Lauréats since 2001 > a place for art Godown Art Centre Dunga road / Industrial area Nairobi |
New
creations
Shift...Centre... Shift centre series 1 Nairobi Choreographic Encounters août 2005 Shift centre series 2 Francophonies en Limousin sept 2005 Shift centre series 3 CCN Caen et Orléans - France déc 05 |
Tours 2006 details tour THEATER DER WELT 2008 Shift...Centre series 8 > le 4 & 5 juillet 2008 Neues Theater - Halle, Allemagne Site-Specific Performance Galerie Talstrabe - Halle, Allemagne > le 1ér juillet 2008 Wörlitz - Halle, Allemagne > le 28 juin 2008 No man's gone now > le 1ér décembre 2007 Paris - Maison des Arts de Créteil Take it away - le sujet à Vif chorégraphie Opiyo Okach interprète Andrea Ouamba > le 8 décembre 2007 Trident, Scène Nationale de Cherbourg > le 6 décembre 2007 Centre Chorégraphique de Caen BRESIL TOUR Fortaleza-Belo Horizonte-Rio de Janeiro-Sao Paulo > le 25 Octobre - 15 Novembre 2007 No man's gone now Bienal internacional de dança do ceara Forum internacional de dança Bienal SESC de dança Shift...Centre series 7 Panorama de dança |
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Project,
photos... (video real player - 8 min) Interview
with Opiyo Okach
interview
in video The danger that comes back today is that the centre should be situated in one place, a place from where truth is determined, from where right and wrong are proscribed. Shift center is not just an esthetic statement about space but is also a statement about political and social realty. The centre of the world is not just in one place. In Africa, we live with the tradition in one side and with islam, christianity, MTV…. And it’s not an extraordinary thing to speak four different langages and to live four different cultures in the everyday reality. It makes natural that reality is multifaceted, that the thruth depend on where you are standing... next |
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