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The Dialogue Series V: Maman Wawina
Admission
8–36€
Date & Time
Fri, Sep 25 – Sun, Sep 27
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Organiser
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main GmbH
About this event
Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula, whose works often mine memory, trauma, and the political histories of Central Africa, joins forces with 75-year-old dancer Maman Wawina to unearth her five-decade career at the National Ballet of Zaire. Founded in 1974 by Mobutu Sese Seko, the company was meant to forge a national identity through dance. Linyekula and Wawina turn the stage into a living archive: a blend of movement, spoken testimony, and fragments of historical choreography that sketches both a personal biography and the contested legacy of a state‑sponsored cultural project. The performance unfolds in French, English, and German with translation, in the intimate setting of Studio 1. The tone is documentary and reflective – an invitation to consider how individual bodies carry political history, and how a life in dance can become a strange and fragile record of a nation.
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