Pro Summer Program
10:30
150 Min
Zehava and Jack Dellal Studio
Tadhi Alawi and Samwel Japhet, Nantea Dance Company
CHUMA CHUMA dance class
CHUMA CHUMA dance class combines Tanzanian traditional dances and contemporary dance techniques. CHUMA CHUMA deals with how we can experience different dance journeys from one dance ethnicity to another and getting from one point to another through investigating our body’s flexibility and the different verbality we can offer it to learn from the language of new movements.
Samwel Japhet is a Tanzanian dance artist, choreographer, and social entrepreneur who uses dance as artistic expression for story-telling. Samwel has always been fascinated with human relationships and human relations with the world. His works reflect on social issues and human experiences, creating a space for reflection, awareness, and discussion. Samwel graduated from the MUDA Africa Dance School in Tanzania. In 2015, he co-founded a Tanzanian-based non-profit dance company (Nantea Dance Company). In 2021, he was awarded the Dutch Prince Claus Fund’s Culture and Development Seed Award. He Co-managed UMOJA, a multi-disciplinary artistic residency exchange program between East African and European artists. Samwel has intensively been touring and working internationally: in The Netherlands, South Korea, France, Ethiopia, Latvia, USA, Mozambique, Belgium, South Africa, Sweden, UK, Burkina Faso, Germany, Portugal, Rwanda, Russia, Uganda, and Kenya.
Tadhi Alawi is a Tanzanian dancer and choreographer. He is the creative director of the Tanzanian-based non-profit dance company Nantea and co-managing director of Contemporary Dance Night and the Tanzanian outreach dance project Nje Ndani. His other activities include movement research as a yoga teacher and fitness expert for N*Gen TV Africa. In 2022, Tadhi Alawi was one of 100 professional artists from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe (non-EU countries) awarded a grant from the Swiss Sudkulturfonds to support his artistic practice. Tadhi has made a name for himself in dance after submitting his BODY VS MOUTH dance films to various dance platforms. His works BODY VS MOUTH and STAY AT HOME Films were promoted on BBC News during the global pandemic in 2020.
Photo: Mrmbasse, Nicholas Calvin, Mazda Kassandal