DAR ES SALAAM

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