Dance Month – Wondarland

The WONDARLAND project curated by Matthieu Nieto and supported by the French Embassy in Tanzania and Alliance Française of Dar es Salaam, encourages artists to use dance and performance to address or reflect on social issues to create change in their society. The evening presents 3 solos:

Mtoto – choreographed and performed by Frederick Sanga (TZ)
Fredrick Sanga explores the realities of street children in Tanzania in order to question and challenge how Tanzanian society perceives them. If children are to become the future of the Nation, what can we do differently?

Naima- choreographed and performed by Halima Masoud (TZ)
Naima was 18, a young girl from a poor family of Dar es Salaam trying to run away from her reality. She fell into drugs as a way to escape her thoughts but ended up tragically losing her life. With her new solo, Halima Masoud pays a tribute to Naïma and sheds light on a sensitive issue : drug addiction and its influence on young girls and women in Tanzania. Staged as a meditative battle with one’s addictive behaviour, the choreographer makes us reflect on our own relationship to substance abuse in our quest for a better

Neverland – choreographed and performed by Matthieu Nieto (FR)
Neverland is a multidisciplinary solo performance revisiting the world of cabaret with a contemporary twist. Exploring themes of self-fiction and self-love, Matthieu Nieto reveals hidden figures that inhabit him – both heroic and monstrous, sensitive or spectacular. This creation offers a poetic journey aiming at transcending appearances and fixed understanding of identity.