THE NET WE CARRY - WAVU TULIOBEBA

CREATION 2026, 52 MINUTES

This multidisciplinary dance performance is an invitation to look at what we carry, feel its weight, and consider what we might choose to release or carry differently. The performance happens because there are things we inherit, experience, and carry with us long after the moment has passed. Some are spoken about. Others remain buried in the body, passed quietly from one generation to another. Family histories, expectations, violence, pain, loss, love, and frustration became the starting points for the movements.

On stage, Tadhi Alawi and Samwel Japhet move between personal and collective experiences through dance, voice, text, visuals, and music. Inspired by the energy of the streets and the relentless pulse of Singeli music, the performers turn tension into movement, struggle into rhythm, and resistance into sound. Through their work they ask what it means to survive, to remember and to imagine something beyond what we have inherited. The body becomes a place where different stories meet, where what has been hidden can surface, shift, and be transformed.

Concept, Choreography & Performance: Tadhi Alawi and Samwel Japhet                                     

Dramaturgical Support: Philipp Scholtysik

Original Music Composition: Shabani Mugado

Featuring Singeli Sound by: Matua TZ

Photography & Video Projection: Jimmy Mathias

Production: Nantea Dance Company 

With the support of the international artist residency “Frankfurt Moves!”, a scholarship programme by the KfW Stiftung in cooperation with Frankfurt LAB.