During the World Refugee Day Cultural Event organized by GTZ, K-PAG (Kenya Performing Arts Group) staged its Premiere of “Asante“. The piece will be performed on various locations during K-PAG’s Unlimiting borders tour (click here for the complete tour schedule). Read more and have a sneak preview here.
For more information about the performances and workshop taking place in the UK, The Netherlands, India and Kenya check Unlimiting Borders Tour 2007 and Unlimiting Kenya Performances.
While part of the KPAG members are on the Unlimiting borders tour in the UK and The Netherlands, activities are also ongoing in Nairobi. Apart from the regular Da Factory Club every Friday afternoon, underneath listed performances are coming up. Check as well Unlimiting Kenya Performances for performances and workshops in Kenya.
| Theme | : | Black History |
| Performance | : | Movement and Spanish Dance |
| Venue | : | Wapi (British Council) Nairobi |
| Time | : | 9.00am - 5.00pm (time of performance not specified) |
| Date | : | 13th October, 2007 |
| Theme | : | James Bond |
| Performance | : | Martial Art, Roxan, Thai, Spanish Dance |
| Venue | : | Grand Regency Hotel |
| Time | : | 6.00pm - 10.00pm |
| Date | : | 23rd October 2007 |
| Theme | : | Orphanage Fundraising (Cardinal Otunga Orphanage) |
| Performance | : | Mango groove |
| Venue | : | Kenya International Conference Center( KICC) |
| Time | : | 10.00am - 5.00pm (time of performance not specified) |
| Date | : | 27th - 28th October 2007 |
| Theme | : | Cultural Festival (Nairobi Province Cultural Festival) |
| Performance | : | Roxan, Thai , Traditional and Spanish Dance |
| Venue | : | Kenya International Conference Center( KICC) |
| Time | : | 10.00am - 6.00pm ( time of performance not specified) |
| Date | : | 9th November 2007 |
| Theme | : | International Olympics of Performing Arts for World Peace |
| Performance | : | Traditional Dance |
| Venue | : | Mumbai, India |
| Time | : | 4.00pm -11.00pm (time of performance not specified) |
| Date | : | 1st - 3rd December 2007 |
- Susan Hawkes - Evening Star, Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Engage Theatre is an East Anglian-based company which specialises in devised physical theatre around thought-provoking subjects. The company’s last play Crazy, which was performed at the Pulse Festival, dealt with the subject of mental health. Its last production, Lost Children, deals with displacement - whether through children being taken into care or through refugee status, and how storytelling can maintain the vital links with the culture and heritage of the past. Don’t be put off by the physical theatre label - this was very much a scriptbased piece and brilliantly performed in a very assessable way by the two young members of Engage, Rosa Wyatt and Laura McPartlin. On a well-designed minimalist set they played a number of different roles to portray the story of Rosie, brought up by her grandmother but then taken into care, and her relationship with others in her story as seen through the eyes of her childhood friend Amber.
Touring with Engage is K-PAG, the Kenya Performing Arts Group which took the second half by storm with an amazing dance and drumming performance of a piece called Asante which means thank you. Choreographed by Saskia Ottenhoff the 11 performers portrayed through dance and physical theatre contemporary African power, politics and the displacement of civilians in the struggles of several African countries. They finished the evening with a moving performance of a piece about the AIDS tragedy in Africa called Make Love Make Sense. This was an entertaining and thought-provoking evening with some amazing talent on display. I would urge you to go and see this performance while you can. Dates of performances: tomorrow at 7 pm, New Wolsey Studio; Thursday October 11, UEA Studio Norwich; Friday and Saturday, October 12-13, Town Hall Great Yarmouth.