In the dance performance Smeer Namibian choreographer Trixie Munyama explores where modernity and tradition, gender and identity meet.
A group of Ovahimbas gather in Katutura, the black township of Windhoek in Namibia. They are together for a healing ritual. A young woman enters and undergoes a change; she takes the manners and behaviour of an elderly man. The majority of the group is male but there is a woman quietly smoking a pipe and observing everything. The ceremony is engulfed by the bustle of the township. In the bustle of a contemporary African city Smeer moves in two worlds, those of time and space, past and present, illusion and reality.
This night of Afrovibes is a two fold of a context program and a performance.
– Context program: how we made it – African artists center stage
– Performance: smeer
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For three days contemporary artists from Uganda, Mozambique, Namibi, South Africa and the Netherlands meet on stage at De Balie for the 18th edition of Afrovibes festival. With dance, spoken word, conversations and music. This night, together with leading opinionistas, co-hosts Ikenna Azuike and Ms. Aba will explore the themes that inspire Africa’s new brand
