I get up in the morning and I say, what a thrill it is to live! What new beauty is going to come into my life today? What new hope for man is going to come today?
Thank you @alesandraseutin_mamavo and @wesleyruz for welcoming me to @ecoledessables , for inviting me to nourish and be nourished by the magic of its soil.
To Vincent Mantsoe, Wanjiru Kamuyu and Aunty Mshai Mwangola, I must thank higher powers for your wisdom and guidance. It seems that we meet people right when we are supposed to meet them.
Thank you to my beautiful family, my new friends already dear to me, and our fierce community! Truly, we have everything we need to manifest anything we dream.
I am leaving Senegal with a full heart, feeling rooted, inspired and blessed. Eager for work ahead, and ready share my inner light ❤️🔥
How (Do) We Re-Member/? (2025)
📍Martha Hill Dance Theatre | Bennington, VT
📸: @crossed__paths 🫶🏾
Over the years, I have gathered stories of my parents, grand parents, great grand parents, great great… These have become a personal music on the days I feel lost.
“How (Do) We Re-Member/?” is my first solo piece, working with the oral and gestural documents from my lineage. It is dance, it is theatre, it is poetry, and naturally afro-contemporary.
I attempt an intimate recount of history in the “Kenyan” context and in the process, trouble the sterility and claims of “truth” narrated by our national history. I am also challenging a linear perception of time, where the past is behind rather than in us.
This piece, for me, exists at the limits of language, slipping between the weight and freedom of memory. It is a space to both honour and mourn the gaps. In partnership with a podium, lights, sound and script, the narrator (“I”) traverses through a fragmented landscape of immediate and distant pasts.
What an empowering journey creating and performing this piece has been!! An affirmation of the power of showing up, even when it gets difficult. Of claiming and sharing my story. Which lives in, but does not begin with “I”.
(Choreography, Sound, Lights, Text & Podium by Yours Truly ✨)
I smiled so hard these days, my jaw was hurting 🥴❤️
My thrilling four-year journey in the United States recently came to a beautiful close: Having completed a Bachelor’s in Dance and Cultural Studies, shared parting words of inspiration as the Senior Speaker and surrounded by my loves, my mother, teachers and dear friends I call family, in this second home.
I am bathed in a gracious ocean of love and support. Thank you to all who saw me, believed in me, worked with me to keep my ambitions large and the inner fire burning bright yet steady.
“We are here, and thank God that we are. Our work is not finished, and thank God that it isn’t” ✊🏾✨
NAFSI YETU | 09.05.26 ❤️🔥
A lovely evening of original Kenyan music and dance performance at Artzone Studios (@artzonestudios )!
Last night has left me reflecting on the beauty of innovation grounded in tradition, and performance as an invocation of the unseen powers that be.
Thank you to the powerful presences and creative spirits of teto_tutuma, @kake_wakake@stacey_achieng_ and @maulidowino._ . To the direction team @upstagelimited and @adamleylucas , makofi yenu! 🔥
Here’s to more local platforms for bold explorations in Kenyan dance and music, led by the artists themselves. ❤️🇰🇪
#nairobi #nairobievents #africandance #performanceart #saturdaynight
Congratulations to the four winning teams of the AL for the Arts Co-Creation Challenge!
✨ Circular Futures Lab
✨ KOS
✨ The Cradle
✨ Nzele
The four projects demonstrated exceptional creative innovation AND commercial viability. They’re ready to scale. They’re ready to impact. They’re ready to lead. And this is just the beginning!
They receive $3,000 in funding, full AL for the Arts support and Implementation begins June 2026!
Special thanks to every team, the mentors, and amazing Judges who contributed to this journey. Your ideas, energy, and commitment continue to shape the future of the arts.
#alforthearts #acn #ala #mastercardfoundation #creativeeconomy
My dear community,
I reach out to you all with exciting news and a humble request 🙏🏾
This past month, I was accepted into a 6-week dance-research programme at École des Sables in Sénégal.
This training, for me, is an aligned step towards with a larger mission: To combine artistry, scholarship and advocacy; To foster accessible, enriching cultural spaces in Eastern Africa, and; To activate critical yet generative dialogue on contemporary African systems.
This program is offering me a dedicated space to enrich my artistic and cultural practice in training, research and community. The reality is, though, it meets me at a time when I am unable to meet its costs on my own.
I am therefore reaching out, hoping to raise the amount for tuition, personal and emergency expenses. Any contribution, of any amount, would be deeply appreciated!
Your contribution supports my development as a dancer-researcher, and will be directly fed into the community and cultural spaces I am committed to nurturing here in Eastern Africa and beyond.
You can also support by sharing this widely! And with anyone you feel may have the will and capacity to contribute.
Thank you for your time, and in advance for your support 😊🫶🏾✨
Meet team THE CRADLE, semi-finalists in the AL for the Arts Co-creation Challenge!
The Cradle is a professional development residency and dance theatre production centering young marginalised women in the strategic retelling of East Africa’s vital role in human history. This project seeks to utilise contemporary dance to challenge historical narratives, promote systemic gender equity and holistic artistic support, as well as enable the regional and interdisciplinary collaboration of like-minded artists.
#ALfortheArtsCo-creation #ACN #ALA #mastercardfoundation #CreativeEconomy
🧡 An Impact Retrospective 🧡
In just two chapters, Midundo Ya Amani has demonstrated great impact on a personal, communal and regional level. This marks just the beginning of our larger commitment to fostering peace across the entire Great Lakes Region of Africa.
Are you a socially-driven artist or organisation based in the African Great Lakes Region passionate about advancing peace efforts in your community? Let’s connect!
Write to us at [email protected] to potentially collaborate with us on future projects. 🤝🏾🌱☀️
It’s truly amazing how dance connects a group of once strangers. In caring company, a chosen family forms —offering safety and support for each person to show up & discover their full potential.
The first chapter of Midundo Ya Amani found its home in Mbikko town of Jinja, Uganda, hosted by @the_sdf_crew_uganda . For 14 days, 14 participants and 5 choreographers engaged in critical discussions, reflective exercises, movement classes, somatic explorations, a nature excursion and performance process.
The point of these sessions was not to train participants to be good dancers. They were already well-versed in various styles.
More fundamentally, Midundo Ya Amani is a call to deepen and awaken — For each dancer to realise their own power to influence change as a young artist in society, and practice building peace within their circles of influence 💪🏾🧡✨
Made possible through the collaboration and support of: @atbennington@projects_for_peace@the_sdf_crew_uganda@inuka_cultural_center@hadisiurbanfestival
🧡 ABOUT MIDUNDO YA AMANI 🧡
This is the Mission, Vision & Framework of Practice of Midundo Ya Amani! 🕺🏽
May the rhythm of our steps echo beyond this moment, carrying seeds of peace into every corner where silence waits to be transformed into DANCE 🌱✨
🧡 ABOUT MIDUNDO YA AMANI 🧡
A Word From The Founders @anu.a.rite and @bertinleader
In 2025, an urgent initiative came to be: Midundo Ya Amani — Born of a vision to create a network of peace building performing artists across the Grand Lakes Region.
We welcome you to join us on this journey to create and connect artists of change!
May the rhythm of our steps echo beyond this moment, carrying seeds of peace into every corner, where silence waits to be transformed into DANCE 🌱✨
