PERFORM!

Capture the impalpable

 

PERFORM! is an itinerant cultural space for the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of African performing arts. A colorful cultural journal which mirrors the memory and serves as a transmission of performing arts. Let’s PERFORM!

Jup do Bairro: Cura, Transgressão e Corpo sem juízo
Saran Koly Saran Koly

Jup do Bairro: Cura, Transgressão e Corpo sem juízo

Para a artista, a vontade de escrever veio como forma de materialização dos seus pensamentos, uma necessidade de auto afirmação. Principalmente para ajudá-la a entender as mudanças ligadas ao seu corpo que dialogavam com questões referentes a pretitude, autoestima e performance de gênero.

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Dancing Bodies
Saran Koly Saran Koly

Dancing Bodies

There is something undeniably familiar about the way we express ourselves through our bodies as Africans. Our dance styles are as vast as the countries contained on the continent; a continent so multi-cultural and multi-dimensional that the only way you could describe what makes the way we move so special, is the word, energy.

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Gasandji -Le Voyage des Possibles
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Gasandji -Le Voyage des Possibles

She sings about hope, love and faith, using a subtle mix of rumba, blues, jazz, folk music and even pigmy polyphonies. Gasandji portrays herself as an artist, as a creator and as a mother who seeks above all to transmit deeply human values. On the road with her daughters, she just embarked on a self-exploration project, “a journey of possibilities” in which she ponders over her links/relationships as a woman and as a mother, in a sort of quest towards personal accomplishment. We met in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

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DJ Turkana: it’s personal; it’s political
Saran Koly Saran Koly

DJ Turkana: it’s personal; it’s political

Anita Kevin is a South Sudanese and Ugandan model. Her sets as DJ Turkan and her other art forms draw a lot from her experiences and how they affected her. She explores her need to return to those experiences in an effort to answer questions such as: What is belonging? What is home? Is home an experience?

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Darlyne Komukama, a.k.a DJ Decay
Saran Koly Saran Koly

Darlyne Komukama, a.k.a DJ Decay

Darlyne Komukama is a Ugandan multi-disciplinary artist and a charismatic personality who can be both playful with her work as well as delivering cutting-edge insight into topics that fall within the realm of pop culture, society, and politics.

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