Creations
YIN - YANG
In a poetic composition of dance, music, verbal language and text, the YIN-YANG performance delves into different perspectives of human and social imbalances. The piece uses the contrast between black and white to express the experiences of individuals and the world. The choreography embodies the struggle between the individual and society and shows the dynamics of power in the search for balance in life.
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The piece challenges the audience to embrace our uncomfortable realities and to explore new possibilities and new directions. The choreography shows different levels of the performers’ relationship to the imbalances of the world (from the global to the individual). In this way, each performer confronts their complex realities and their current relationship to the world in which we live.
Conceptualized and Directed by: Tadhi Alawi
Performance: Tadhi Alawi and Samwel Japhet
Music composition: Bandukine and Sigermaxter
Costume Design: Esama AfroCulture
Photos: Flavia Mash Photography
YIN-YANG was supported by the Goethe Institute and co-produced by TanzLabor ROXY Ulm
Production: Nantea Dance Company
Link: Trailer​​​
A MOMENT - WAKATI
A MOMENT – WAKATI is a dance performance that includes a duet and two short films (Home & Body vs. Mouth) projection that demonstrate the layers of moments and talks about how those moments can change an individual’s attitudes, thoughts, experiences, and life. The interpretation of this piece shows the power of courage built up through the events that happened in our lives by unexpectedly and led us to be patient, attentive and understanding so that we can deal with the challenges and moments of joy in life.The performance deals with the moments that can change a person’s life: the development from childhood to adulthood and the world around us. WAKATI shows in images, dance, and music how we can find support, care, and comfort in our shared experiences in the moments we share with others in our daily lives.
Concept, Choreography, Performance:Tadhi Alawi and Samwel Japhet
Duration: 45 Minutes
Original Music: Shabani Mugado
Film projection, filmed and edited: Jimmy Mathias
Poster design: Shady Arts
Production: Nantea Dance Company​
Link: Trailer
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A MOMENT – WAKATI, has been performed in various festivals and Theaters: in Germany at Theater Kiel and TanzLabor Roxy Ulm 2024, Israel at the Tel Aviv International Dance Festival at Suzanne Dellal Centre 2023, in The Netherlands at the AfroVibes Festival 2021, in New York at the Battery Dance Festival 2021, in Düsseldorf at the Internationale Tanzmesse NRW – Open Studio at Tanzhaus nrw 2022, in Italy at the International Prize PROSPETTIVA DANZA TEATRO 2022, In Latvia at LAIKS DEJOT Festival 2022, in UK at the Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2022, in Tanzania at the Time2Dance Festival 2021, In Germany at 36. International Choreographic Competition Hannover 2022, In Belgium at To Be Antwerp 2021.​​
DAR ES SALAAM
40 mins I produced by Nantea Dance Company
Music composed by Shabani Mugado
The performance telling stories and showing perspectives about Dar es Salaam since Tadhi was born until now and what the future of Dar es Salaam will be.!! Tadhi Alawi is a dancer and choreographer who was born in the slum area in Mwananyamala, Dar es Salaam. He has witnessed these changes while growing up living in different districts of Dar es Salaam and finding his own way to project the voice through his own movement inspired by the lifestyle and community who grew up with in the city of Dar es Salaam. The idea of the concept came up after asking himself questions about how the community changed? How did the city change? And how did these two aspects inFluence each other? What is Tanzania without Umoja? What is Dar es Salaam without Ujamaa? In Dar es Salaam what will happen without these?
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​Concept and performance by Tadhi Alawi
Script writer by Magnus Keske
Filmed and edited by ARI SNOW
Original music composed by Shabani Mugado
Production by Nantea Dance Company
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Link: Video
HUMAN: Life in a rapidly chaning world
HUMAN: Life in a rapidly changing world, is a multimedia performance containing dance, film projection, Motiongraphics and music. It is a tale set on three young men living in a village, where their community is facing a humanitarian crisis caused by food and water shortages, diseases, and drought. At the same time, the world around them is experiencing a rise in the use of technology and industrialization that has led to other various calamities like air pollution, epidemics, and conflicts which in turn have triggered migration and human trafficking. Set in an artificial imitation of the reality of the world, HUMAN: Life in a rapidly changing world is a reflection of humanity’s struggles against climate change, conflict and unprecedented societal changes.
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Concept and direction: Samwel Japhet
Choreography and performance: Ulonzi Shabani, Tadhi Alawi and Samwel Japhet
Music Composition: Shabani Mugado
Motion Graphics and Graphic designer: Shadrack Maluli
Costumes: MERVKI REP
Film shot and edited: Jimmy Mathias
Actors: Mahmoud Mbega, Irene Themistocles
Production: Nantea Dance Company
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Link: Trailer​​
Fake it until you make it
15 mins I choreographed by Tadhi Alawi
A contemporary dance theater piece that talks about the journey of artists to success. All artists have dreams and plans to success but in middle of the journey most of them give up because of the challenges that line their careers for so long, freedom, abuse, betrayal, rape, despair, a lack of money, a life full of drama. All artists have to pass some of those challenges to achieve success in their career. Unfortunately their success will never show the reality to audiences and people. Instead people start to see an illusion of a successful career and confuse it with a successful life.
UTU (Dignity)
45 mins I choreographed by Tadhi Alawi
UTU is the performance showing people with Kindness and people without kindness, When there is no dignity people run from their homes Also the performance talks about frequent civil war in different countries in Africa and out of Africa. The innocent generation lost
We believe countries like Congo, Somalia, Burundi etc. are tired of civil and wants piece just like others countries.
Value of Life
20 mins I choreographed by Nantea Dance Company
Inspired through a read about the poaching of elephants in the Tanzanian ‘Citizen’ Newspaper, the WWF Reports and watching television news. As patriots of our lovely country and an artists who can address social problems through dance, we worked on this project aimed at educating people about the importance of living with wildlife without killing them. A lot of people from different countries come to watch the wildlife of Tanzania which can generate good income for development.
Short and Tall
15 mins I choreographed by Tadhi Alawi and Samwel Japhet
A dance performance that refers to the life and habits of every day in our lives. In the life of tall and short has ruled contempt and who would rather break off the relationship because of the heights, in every corner of the world there’s this type of friends who remain in their friendship and relationship tend to overlap between the individual heights.