Urban Explorations
In November 2018 the Tell Me Team realized the collaborative Project „Urban Explorations“ during the NFMPA (Nairobi Festival of Performance and Media Arts). The project is part of the ongoing collaboration between German and Kenyan artists. This years theme of NFPMA festival was „colour of peace“.
The TellMe Team gave lectures, workshops and performances and Kefa Oiro, director of the festival, filmed the events. Together with artists from Nairobi they worked on the relationship between art and the urban space, because all big questions are always connected to the human environment.
One of the biggest slums of Nairobi, Mathare, was the backdrop for short contemporary dance performances. Besides Kenyan dancers the inhabitants of Mathare participated in the performances – the urban space required new movements.
The short films and the live-choreographies were then presented as a dialogue at the Goethe Theater of Nairobi. A big audience witnessed the contrast between the black box situation of a theater and the bubbling urban space.