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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Dorothée Munyaneza / Cie Kadidi: Umuko

Jean-Patient Nkubana performing Umuko.

Aug 15–17, 2024
Stresemannstraße 29, 10963 Berlin, Germany

The Rwandan-born Dorothée Munyaneza has led a necessarily peripatetic life. Exiled from genocidal Rwanda as a child to come of age in Britain, she then forged a sophisticated career of choreographed sung story in France. Nevertheless, her work is rooted in history. Munyaneza is committed to reflecting upon what has not been properly remembered. For the six-person Umuko, which opens Berlin’s Tanz im August festival, she joins young Rwandan dancers, poets, and musicians to imagine a future homeland that “does not forget.” —Apollinaire Scherr

Photo courtesy of Tanz im August