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The artistic duo Daria Nazarenko (Düsseldorf) and Moïse Fall (Dakar) began collaborating in 2021 while co-organizing the Pan-African dance festival JAKARLO in Dakar: / sama_street_vibe
They continued their projects between Germany and Senegal, and finally, in 2023 they managed the residency "Brindging Steps" in Düsseldorf collaborating with the tanzhaus nrw - that culminated in the performance in public space
"Nion Far,“ (Wolof: „we are together“) featuring 12 dancers from both world. Trailer to that project:
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Their alignment seeks to look to the past, considering the current context of global migrations and rising xenophobia, to imagine a reconfiguration of societal relations.
As individuals, we bring diverse backgrounds to this collaboration. Moïse Douda Fall specializes in Krump dance, lighting, and stage technology, while Daria Nazarenko is an interdisciplinary artist focused on subcultural communal practices through performance. Our audiences belong to two cultural spheres they
can only access through collaboration.
We seek alternative ways to collaborate between two continents and grounds with interconnected postcolonial histories and differences regarding equality. Coming both of us from non-academic dance backgrounds, we are focusing on an art form that, as a mediator of knowledge, opens up new perspectives on our society and can be practiced as a shared ritual. We truly believe that the dances we’ve learned from the street culture mean - that to carry a home; to carry a history; to carry a trade; to carry a wound; to carry equatorial heat; to carry resistance; to carry a library of redacted documents; to carry rupture; to carry land; to carry the language of the inner soul; to carry new formations; to carry the embrace of a river current; to carry sisterhood and communal connection.